Pedro Vargas
Actor · 1904 – 1989
Movies24
Movie6.0Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
El abandonado
1949 · 4 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaEx-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
El pecado de ser pobre
1950 · 3 votes
Movie8.1DramaFamilyBiography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Movie7.0DramaCrimeA nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Movie6.4RomanceComedyIn this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
Yo quiero ser mala
1950 · 11 votes
Movie6.7MusicComedyAn ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.
Música en la noche
1958 · 3 votes
Movie9.0ComedyPaloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and he doesn't know that she is only pretending to be the daughter of the great business tycoon B. Quintana... she is in reality just an employee! But when a desperate Marcelo must take a job at Quintana's company, both their lies begin to unravel.
Movie6.1DramaAdventureAndalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.
Movie6.0DramaMexican feature film
Movie5.6DramaCrimeWorking-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Por qué peca la mujer
1952 · 8 votes
Movie5.3ComedyDramaA prostitute in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord.
Movie7.2ComedyMusicBetween-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Pensión de artistas
1956 · 9 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaThe movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Movie6.9DramaA deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
Movie6.0MusicTourist's eye overview of some highlights of Mexican history and folk culture, all expressed through interpretive dance.
México lindo y querido
1961 · 5 votes
Movie6.7DramaA woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
Movie6.3ComedyTwo brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
1948 · 3 votes
Movie5.8ActionComedyBand of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
Movie5.4ComedyExperimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.
Una Movida Chueca
1956 · 5 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDramaMexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.
Espaldas mojadas
1955 · 8 votes
Movie7.6DramaMusicLeft alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Aventurera
1950 · 24 votes
Movie5.6CrimeThrillerBig-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
Nadie muere dos veces
1953 · 7 votes
Movie6.0Three struggling musicians share an apartment.
Los tres bohemios
1957 · 5 votes
Movie5.4Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
Hay un niño en su futuro
1952 · 5 votes