Miguel Torruco
Actor · 1920 – 1956 · Palenque, Chiapas, México
Movies21
Movie6.7MysteryCrimeAfter a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase.
Movie6.3DramaA useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Movie6.0DramaMusicNegro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
Movie6.6DramaComedyTo help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love.
Movie4.6Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955 · 8 votes
Movie6.8DramaFictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Cuando me vaya
1954 · 6 votes
Movie5.8DramaThrillerPolice detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
El misterio del carro express
1953 · 5 votes
Movie4.4DramaSi volvieras a mi
1954 · 7 votes
Movie6.5CrimeThrillerThe film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.
El mensaje de la muerte
1953 · 4 votes
Movie5.8CrimeDramaA man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.
Movie6.0DramaA circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
Movie5.3DramaAdaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Mexican version of " A Doll's House." A spendthrift wife hides from her banker husband that she is in debt to a dishonorable employee her husband has fired.
Movie5.4Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
La estatua de carne
1951 · 5 votes
Movie7.3DramaComedyReporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953 · 14 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceIn Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Movie5.4WesternLawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.
Massacre
1956 · 8 votes
Movie5.4DramaNubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
Horas de agonía
1958 · 5 votes
Movie5.6DramaCrimeReturning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.
Movie4.5DramaFamily melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
Movie6.2DramaComedyA young woman who has seen better (and richer) days wants to marry a rich man because she is used to the luxuries that she no longer has.
Acapulco
1952 · 9 votes
Movie6.0DramaThrillerLa desconocida
1954 · 3 votes