Maruja Grifell
Actor · 1907 – 1968 · Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Movies24
Movie6.0ComedyOut-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
1951 · 6 votes
Movie8.1ComedyCantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Movie6.7DramaRomanceThe disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Movie6.0AdventureHistoryA 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
La monja alférez
1944 · 7 votes
Movie6.9DramaThrillerA mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Movie6.3Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
1965 · 3 votes
Movie7.3ComedyPortrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
Movie7.1ComedyDramaSalvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Movie8.4ComedyMusicJorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953 · 115 votes
Movie7.1ComedyMusicAfter a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
Movie6.0DramaRosa, a working-class young woman, falls in love with the physician Armando de la Vega. After they spend a night together, she discovers that she is pregnant. Armando, however, marries another woman, and the couple leaves for Paris, where he remains for several years. Upon his return, disillusioned with his marriage, he meets the famous cabaret star Alma Rosa, not realizing that she is Rosa, now performing under a stage name.
Una mujer decente
1950 · 5 votes
Movie5.7DramaRomanceA beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
Movie6.6DramaCrimeMercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Movie6.3DramaEsposa o amante
1950 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ComedyMusicLonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Movie4.1ComedyIn this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.
Se solicitan modelos
1954 · 7 votes
Movie6.5ComedyFamilyA wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.
Movie6.7DramaHistoryBiography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Felipe de Jesús
1949 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaCrimeManos de seda
1951 · 5 votes
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Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
Rogaciano el huapanguero
1957 · 5 votes
Movie5.8A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
Pancho López
1957 · 5 votes
Movie7.0DramaGoverness falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
Las infieles
1953 · 6 votes
Movie6.4DramaA man long thought dead returns to his fishing village home to find the love he left married to the village’s top power broker, a man who control’s the fish production with an iron fist.
Movie6.4DramaCrimeJosé, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.