Armando Arriola

El rediezcubrimiento de México (1979)

Son tus perjúmenes mujer (1978)

Marginal/unemployed dude with heart of gold tries to make life better for crippled niece, unapproachable girlfriend, others. ...

Las ficheras: Bellas de noche II (1977)

Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk "La Corcholata", in ...

La presidenta municipal (1975)

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

Anonymous Death Threat (1975)

Men are turning up dead after receiving anonymous threats that include the date of their deaths. The latest person to receive one of these threats decides to call Santo the crime fighting wrestler for help. Santo must solve the mystery of the men's murder ...

Un camino al cielo (1975)

Pobre, pero honrada! (1973)

Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discover ...

Una vez, un hombre... (1971)

Young factory worker becomes apprentice to an alchemist, and he ends up going to the moon to repair equipment belonging to The Three Fates. ...

El Quelite (1970)

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds. ...

Ambición sangrienta (1968)

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights. ...

Crown of Tears (1968)

Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to eco ...

Chewing Gum (1968)

Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them. ...

Damiana and the Men (1967)

Damiana, a girl who has grown up with her grandfather and a friend, is discovered by photographer and launched as supermodel. ...

Los Perversos (1967)

Priest 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. ...

El temerario (1966)

Crooked dude schemes to deprive stepdaughter of her inheritance after her mother dies. ...

La maldición del oro (1965)

Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright. ...

Las tapatías nunca pierden (1965)

An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate. ...

Los tres calaveras (1965)

A Mexican music trío go through friendships and hardships in order to be famous and travel to Spain. ...

Bring Me the Vampire (1963)

A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might ...

House of the Frights (1963)

Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house. ...

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 ...

Twist: Locura de juventud (1962)

The Legion Of Decent Decency is determined to shut down a nightclub where live rock and roll bands play and young people dance The Twist. ...

Pilotos de la muerte (1962)

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers. ...

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 ...

The Black Horseman (1961)

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

Bala Perdida (1960)

Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot. ...

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. ...

Santa Claus (1959)

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day! ...

Dos corazones y un cielo (1959)

Husband and wife share the spotlight as two of Mexico's most famous ranchera singers, but when they decide to pursue solo careers, a Spanish theatrical empresario and an Italian female chocolatier will threaten their marriage. ...

Manicomio (1959)

El cariñoso (1959)

Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor. ...

Vístete Cristina (1959)

Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl. ...

La rebelión de los adolescentes (1959)

College student returns home after the death of his father, then discovers Pops was killed by members of a crime syndicate. ...

El cofre del pirata (1959)

Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor. ...

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. ...

La máscara de carne (1958)

Mexican feature film ...

La feria de San Marcos (1958)

Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings. ...

The Witch Suckled Them (1958)

Brothers Viruta and Capulina inherit, along with their distant cousin Reynaldo, an eerie mansion in which a hidden treasure is located. ...

Land of Men (1958)

On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them. ...

La mafia del crimen (1958)

Felicidades maestro (1958)

Mexican feature film ...

Los tres mosqueteros y medio (1957)

Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely. ...

Dying of Laughter (1957)

Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her. ...

La virtud desnuda (1957)

A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agree to the price she sets on it. Twist ending. ...

La flecha envenenada (1957)

A young orphan girl is attacked by Apaches and must pay her father's debts, as she may be stripped of her lands. ...

La faraona (1956)

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. Howev ...

Unfaithful Wives (1956)

A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure. ...

Pensión de artistas (1956)

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show. ...

Where the Circle Ends (1956)

A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses. ...

Melodías de amor (1955)

El gavilan vengador (1955)

Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen. ...

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. ...

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. ...

El rayo justiciero (1955)

New sheriff cleans up the town. First (?) in "Mauricio Rosales" series. ...

Las engañadas (1955)

Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years. ...

Qué lindo Cha Cha Cha (1955)

Satan opens a nightclub in a small town, scheming to seduce the townsfolk into naughtiness. ...

Al Diablo Las Mujeres (1955)

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

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. ...

La sobrina del señor cura (1954)

A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it? ...

Reto a la vida (1954)

Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process. ...

Camelia (1954)

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan. ...

From the Village to TV (1953)

A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame ...

Mujeres sacrificadas (1952)

Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man. ...

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 ...

El cardenal (1951)

Mexican feature film ...

Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! (1951)

A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart. ...

Daughter of Deceit (1951)

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her. ...

The Troublemaker (1951)

Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident. ...

Lost Love (1951)

Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man. ...

The Poulterer Hawk (1951)

Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other. ...

Esposa o amante (1950)

Mariachis (1950)

Two rival combos play practical jokes on each other during a festival where they're performing... then a sideshow artist is murdered and several of them fall under suspicion for the crime. ...

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 ...

Una gallega en México (1949)

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Ro ...

Hay lugar para... dos (1949)

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan! ...

Nosotros los rateros (1949)

A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess. ...

El Colmillo de Buda (1949)

Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue. ...

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. ...

¡A volar, joven! (1947)

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love wit ...

The Black Ace (1944)

This is the story of a convict fellow whose brother is a bright scientist that discovers a vaccine against a deadly infection. The clash between good and evil moves the convict to search into his soul and find the goodness that will lead him to the ultimat ...

Viejo nido (1944)

Mexican movie ...

Ni sangre ni arena (1941)

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a ...

The Mad Monk (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo. ...

El muerto murió (1938)

The paths of a young woman and her late husband's mistress cross without their knowing it, which causes much confusion for the two women and their new partners. ...

Over the Waves (1933)

Based on the brief life of the Mexican composer of the famous waltz, "Over the Waves" ("Sobre las Olas"), Juventino Rosas. ...