Alfredo Varela

El mexicano feo (1984)

Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job. ...

El diablo en persona (1982)

Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time. ...

Duro pero seguro (1978)

Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out. ...

Faith, Hope and Charity (1974)

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy. ...

Besos, Besos... y Más Besos (1973)

Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes. ...

Mi niño Tizoc (1972)

Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish. ...

El manantial del amor (1970)

Boy/girl stuff at a health spa that's famous for aphrodisiac waters. ...

Vuelve el ojo de vidrio (1970)

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution. ...

La casa de las muchachas (1969)

A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man. ...

El ojo de vidrio (1969)

Las Fieras (1969)

Historia de un grupo de estafadores internacionales y sus artimañas. ...

Esta noche si (1968)

Un Latin lover en Acapulco (1967)

Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover". ...

Shark Hunters (1963)

Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city. ...

Estoy casado, ja, ja (1962)

Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage. ...

Paloma brava (1961)

Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff. ...

Amorcito corazón (1961)

Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple. ...

The Black Horseman (1961)

A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered. ...

Mi niño, mi caballo y yo (1959)

Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father. ...

El superflaco (1959)

Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling. ...

Carabina 30-30 (1958)

Rom-com set during Mexican Revolution. ...

Tú y la mentira (1958)

Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him. ...

Préstame tu cuerpo (1958)

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body. ...

Pretty sky! (1957)

Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman ...

Backstage (1957)

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth. ...

Pancho López (1957)

A 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 ...

Ultraje al amor (1956)

Mexican feature film ...

Melodías de amor (1955)

Pueblo quieto (1955)

Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young lady from another First Family and gets rampy with his rival for her affections. ...

Al Diablo Las Mujeres (1955)

Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel. ...

The River and Death (1954)

A 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 ...

Singing love is born (1954)

Comical misadventures of a film crew trying to get their damn musical filmed. ...

Las cariñosas (1953)

When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, wh ...

My Three Merry Widows (1953)

Dead man's will reveals he had three wives. ...

Mi papá tuvo la culpa (1953)

Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister. ...

El fronterizo (1952)

Rom-com in charro hats. ...

The Straying Rooster (1952)

A 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. ...

Música, mujeres y amor (1952)

Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen. ...

El dinero no es la vida (1952)

A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything. ...

El beisbolista fenómeno (1952)

The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue. ...

Nosotras las sirvientas (1951)

A peasant woman arrives in the capital and is run over by a young man, who, to compensate her, gives her a job as a maid. ...

Especialista en señoras (1951)

Frenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients. ...

Mi mujer no es mía (1951)

Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker. ...

In the Flesh (1951)

A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues. ...

Love for Life (1950)

During the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land. ...

Yo quiero ser tonta (1950)

Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there. ...

They also sing of pain (1950)

The 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. ...

Si me viera don Porfirio (1950)

La vida en broma (1950)

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others. ...

Love Pays for Love (1950)

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries. ...

El charro y la dama (1949)

Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying. ...

Two Pesos Left (1949)

Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight. ...

The Grand Champion (1949)

El Kid Azteca not only fights to become someone in life; he also fights for the love of Avelina, who shows no interest in him when she sees that fame has gone to his head. ...

Las mañanitas (1948)

Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy... ...

El Supersabio (1948)

Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. ...

Charro a la fuerza (1948)

Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance. ...

¡Fíjate qué suave! (1948)

There are two sisters who will soon receive a large inheritance and several men want to marry them to participate in that heritage. ...

Nocturno de amor (1948)

Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and b ...

Albur de amor (1947)

Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights. ...

La insaciable (1947)

¡Qué verde era mi padre! (1947)

Yo fui una usurpadora (1946)

Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with. ...

Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9 (1946)

Focuses on the emotional life of two women, whose husbands, with labor excuses, make "outings" from 7 to 9 at night. ...

Los nietos de Don Venancio (1946)

A puritanical man travels to the capital to visit nightclubs and introduces himself as a bachelor, but to his surprise, he finds himself there with his wife. ...

Canaima (1945)

Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him. ...

Una mujer que no miente (1945)

Headmistress of a girl's school and one of her pupils get into romantic-comedy trouble trying to keep their lies straight. ...

La pícara Susana (1945)

Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family. ...

El Gran Makakikus (1944)

Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere. ...

Los Hijos De Don Venancio (1944)

Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions. ...

The Pharaoh's Court (1944)

The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave. ...

La Guerra de los Pasteles (1944)

Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s ...

Viva Mi Desgracia (1944)

After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonie ...

Adiós juventud (1943)

Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905. ...

El ametralladora (1943)

Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes. ...

María Eugenia (1943)

Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course. ...

The Bloody Inn (1943)

Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises. ...

I'm a Real Mexican (1942)

Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda. ...

Cuando viajan las estrellas (1942)

A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both dislike each other at first, things may change. ...

Las cinco noches de Adán (1942)

Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him. ...

Mil estudiantes y una muchacha (1942)

The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor's daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family. ...

La gallina clueca (1941)

Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family. ...

The Unknown Policeman (1941)

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle ...

When the Children are Gone (1941)

Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The on ...

You’re Missing the Point (1940)

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich ma ...

Al son de la marimba (1940)

A broken high society man tries to keep his family expensive lifestyle by tricking a rich man from out of the town to marry his well intended daughter. ...

La comadrita (1978)

Duro pero seguro (1978)

Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out. ...

La presidenta municipal (1975)

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo. ...

Aguilas de acero (1971)

Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way. ...

La hora desnuda (1971)

Vuelve el ojo de vidrio (1970)

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution. ...

La casa de las muchachas (1969)

A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man. ...

El ojo de vidrio (1969)

Primera Comunión (1969)

A very humble boy longs conditions make their first communion, but circumstances do not allow it until, after a tragic accident, Paco Malgesto and a group of people who help make his dream. ...

Las infieles (1969)

El Amor y Esas Cosas (1969)

Beautiful women argue with various men about those things about love. ...

Las pecadoras (1968)

Jewel-thief and his girlfriend try to go straight. ...

Esta noche si (1968)

Mujeres, mujeres, mujeres (1967)

Three-episode sex farce. ...

Un Latin lover en Acapulco (1967)

Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover". ...

Tirando a gol (1966)

Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams. ...

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico (1966)

Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples. ...

Perdóname mi vida (1965)

Vuelven los cinco halcones (1962)

Cowboy justice, Five-avenger team up. #2 in series of two. ...

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 ...

Cazadores de asesinos (1962)

Gritty-western (B&W/1962 style) about bounty hunters. ...

Las recién casadas (1962)

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values. ...

Estoy casado, ja, ja (1962)

Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage. ...

Los cinco halcones (1962)

Elías, a banker and the secret leader of a gang, tries to persuade Pedro—the father of young Laura and little Chava—to sell him his ranch. Five friends—the shopkeeper Trini, the blacksmith Quique, the horseman Cuco, the barber Javier, and the doctor ...

Se alquila marido (1961)

Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns. ...

Jóvenes y rebeldes (1961)

Mark of the Dead Man (1961)

Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him. ...

Vacaciones en Acapulco (1961)

A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy. ...

Conqueror of the Moon (1960)

Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon! ...

Our Daily Hunger (1960)

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday. ...

Thirst for Love (1959)

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. ...

Mi mujer necesita marido (1959)

Diagnosed with a "Cleopatra complex", a married woman named Cora believes she is a femme fatale and invites three suitors to her vacation home. ...

Pistolas de oro (1959)

Desnúdate, Lucrecia (1958)

Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake. ...

Cuando Mexico canta (1958)

Lorenzo Inclán, a famous Mexican songwriter, is torn between helping a girl become a famous singer or having a romantic relationship with her. ...

Préstame tu cuerpo (1958)

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body. ...

¡Viva el amor! (1958)

Man wants to dump wife for a new girlfriend; all three end up weekending in Acapulco together along with a gentleman the wife meets enroute, and all four explore the possibility of forming new relationships. ...

Dios no lo quiera (1957)

A beautiful young woman from the neighborhood falls in love with two rude men, one good and the other bad. ...

Backstage (1957)

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth. ...

I Am Very Macho (1953)

To 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. ...

Mi papá tuvo la culpa (1953)

Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister. ...

Dark River (1952)

The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters. ...

El beisbolista fenómeno (1952)

The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue. ...

Si me viera don Porfirio (1950)