Antonio Bravo

El florido pensil (2002)

"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of the same name by Andrés Sopeña, it evokes, from the present, his memories of that time: everyday school, l ...

El tío del saco y el inspector Lobatón (1993)

El último guateque II (1988)

A group of young people meet the harsh reality after graduation. ...

El testamento (1981)

After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns. ...

La presidenta municipal (1975)

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

The Holy Inquisition (1974)

A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he report ...

El Miedo No Anda En Burro (1973)

This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that ...

Entre Pobretones y Ricachones (1973)

The adventures of Mostachón and Wash & Wear in his bid to win the estate of a mysterious millionaire uncle who suddenly appeared in their lives but their parents would not let anything easy ...

Queen Doll (1972)

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror. ...

Tonta Tonta Pero No Tanto (1972)

The Suicide Club (1970)

Enrique lives in the midst of danger until he falls in love with a girl and learns to appreciate the little things in life. However, a series of strange situations unfold before him towards his own death, which he must deal with. ...

Corazón salvaje (1968)

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to m ...

Agente 00 Sexy (1968)

The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants. ...

Simon of the Desert (1965)

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him. ...

El rey del tomate (1963)

El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán. ...

Tlayucan (1962)

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church. ...

La edad de la inocencia (1962)

A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by. ...

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 ...

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals. ...

Spiritism (1962)

Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw. ...

Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company (1962)

Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires. ...

Se alquila marido (1961)

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

Amor en la sombra (1960)

A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover. ...

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage. ...

Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arr ...

Nazarín (1959)

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor. ...

Path of evil (1957)

La mujer de dos caras (1957)

A beautiful woman will stop at nothing in her quest for money and power. Not even murder. ...

Love and Sin (1956)

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to ...

The Innocent (1956)

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing ...

The Third Word (1956)

The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga L ...

Los margaritos (1956)

Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman. ...

The King of México (1956)

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México. ...

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. ...

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan... ...

Los Fernández de Peralvillo (1954)

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal. ...

Take Me in Your Arms (1954)

To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star. ...

Frontera norte (1953)

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster. ...

Él (1953)

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath. ...

La extraña pasajera (1953)

During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent. ...

The Martyr of Calvary (1952)

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross. ...

Los enredos de una gallega (1951)

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery ...

Una gallega baila mambo (1951)

Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband. ...

My Dear Captain (1950)

La loca de la casa (1950)

A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father. ...

Yo quiero ser mala (1950)

In 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 drinkin ...

The Great Madcap (1949)

Portrayal of a family's attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone. ...

Felipe de Jesús (1949)

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico. ...

Laura's Sin (1949)

José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura ...

Señora Tentación (1948)

Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general. ...

Pepita Jiménez (1946)

On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready ...

Palabras de mujer (1946)

Young songwriter falls in love with a singer he writes for... but her jealous manager fucks up both their lives. ...

Los misterios del hampa (1945)

Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for. ...

La Fuga (1944)

A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention. ...

San Francisco de Asís (1944)

Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi. ...

El rayo del sur (1943)

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos. ...

El ametralladora (1943)

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

Los miserables (1943)

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings. ...

Cinco fueron escogidos (1943)

Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate v ...

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. ...

The Three Musketeers (1942)

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne. ...

Passion Island (1942)

1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that i ...

Dos mexicanos en Sevilla (1942)

After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn't go much better for him in Spain either, although at ...

La virgen morena (1942)

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons. ...

El hijo de Cruz Diablo (1941)

A 1941 film directed by Vicente Oroná. ...

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 ...

Los últimos días de Pompeyo (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas. ...

Odio (1940)

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland. ...

Los olvidados de Dios (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda. ...