Alberto Catalá

El Barrendero (1982)

A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out. ...

Picardía mexicana (1978)

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language. ...

El patrullero 777 (1978)

Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method. ...

Por mis pistolas (1968)

Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way i ...

Your Excellency (1967)

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état i ...

El señor doctor (1965)

It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit. ...

El padrecito (1964)

Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captu ...

Entrega Inmediata (1963)

Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy. ...

El Extra (1962)

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foi ...

El analfabeto (1961)

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the ...

Sábado negro (1959)

Up and Down (1959)

It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness. ...

La mafia del crimen (1958)

El bolero de Raquel (1957)

The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy. ...

The Body Snatcher (1957)

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posi ...

Ultraje al amor (1956)

Mexican feature film ...

Melodías de amor (1955)

La sombra de Cruz Diablo (1955)

Drop the Curtain (1955)

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back. ...

Soy un golfo (1955)

Slacker decides to work and create a career for himself after he falls in love with an ambitious woman. ...

La gitana blanca (1954)

Nina, a gypsy girl, promised to the future leader of her tribe, falls in love with Roberto, a depressed violinist. ...

Si yo fuera diputado (1952)

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the ot ...

My General's Wives (1951)

The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death. ...

Los amores de una viuda (1949)

A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears. ...

Champion Without Crown (1946)

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rou ...