Arturo de Córdova
Actor · 1908 – 1973 · Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Arturo de Córdova (May 8, 1908 – November 3, 1973) was a Mexican actor. He made over one hundred films in all. Arturo García Rodríguez was born in Mérida, Yucatán. Most of Córdova's films were made in Mexico and he became a major motion picture actor in Latin America and Spain winning three Silver Ariel's and received four other nominations. Córdova starred in the several American films during the 1940s including For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Frenchman's Creek (1944), Incendiary Blonde (1945), and New Orleans (1947).
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Movie6.5WarRomanceSpain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · 215 votes
Movie6.8ComedyCrimeAn old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
Movie5.7Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Los Perversos
1967 · 6 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaMario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
El profe
1971 · 124 votes
Movie7.7DramaThrillerGloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Él
1953 · 166 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaMientras México duerme
1938 · 3 votes
Movie5.6RomanceDramaPlantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Mala yerba
1940 · 5 votes
Movie6.8DocumentaryMusicThe life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.
Movie5.1MusicRomanceParamount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Incendiary Blonde
1945 · 9 votes
Movie5.6DramaOutcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
A Medal for Benny
1945 · 5 votes
Movie6.5ThrillerMysteryA young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
Movie8.0DramaWesternNorthern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
Movie5.8DramaShe has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...
La agonía de ser madre
1970 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ComedyCrimeA taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
Movie5.3DramaAdventureA beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
Movie5.8RomanceAdventureAn English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Frenchman's Creek
1944 · 23 votes
Movie6.8DramaRomanceAntonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
Movie6.0DramaPriest Jesus knows a dark secret that was passed onto him during confession. When the town mayor threatens the integrity of some people, it is up to the priest to take action or remain silent.
El secreto del sacerdote
1941 · 5 votes
Movie6.6DramaMusicA gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
New Orleans
1947 · 14 votes
Movie6.4ComedyThe staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Duffy's Tavern
1945 · 8 votes
Movie6.0DramaComedyNeither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them.
¿Quién te quiere a ti?
1942 · 6 votes
Movie5.7DramaThrillerAmong Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.
Matar es fácil
1966 · 6 votes
Movie7.3RomanceStrong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.