Eduardo Alcaraz

Buenas y con... movidas (1983)

Sex-worker tries to pose as a society matron long enough to receive a visit from her daughter, the daughter's fiancé and his family. ...

The Black Widow (1983)

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest. ...

El Barrendero (1982)

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

Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)

In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon. ...

Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico (1981)

El testamento (1981)

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

Rigo is Love (1980)

Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension. ...

Vivir para amar (1980)

Rigo Tovar plays "Tony Franco", a singer who rises to fame and balances his new lifestyle while trying to keep up with everyone back home. ...

La Güera Rodríguez (1978)

In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity. ...

The Year of the Plague (1978)

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic ...

El carita (1974)

Door-to-door salesman of beauty products gets involved in comical misadventures and riotous high jinks. Also throwing buckets of water and handfuls of colored goop. ...

La muerte de Pancho Villa (1974)

After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated. ...

Conserje en Condominio (1974)

After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their probl ...

La Martina (1972)

Martina is a liberal woman who arrives to a small town, with his godfather. Here, Martina will met with her secret love, a typical "macho-ranchero" man, demanding her hand in matrimony. But he rejects Martina, claiming that she's not virgin and will return ...

Who Killed Grandpa? (1972)

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension. ...

¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza! (1972)

Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels. ...

Los ángeles de la tarde (1972)

Departamento de soltero (1971)

Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities. ...

La mujer de oro (1970)

Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works. ...

El cuerpazo del delito (1970)

Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios. ...

Friar Juan (1970)

A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer. ...

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. ...

Como perros y gatos (1969)

Rosita and Carlos, two young people who deeply detest each other, despite their parents determination to marry them off to unite their fortunes. Noticing their constant rivalry, the parents feign animosity to try and force the couple to fall in love. ...

Un Quijote sin mancha (1969)

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations. ...

The Great Adventure (1969)

A humorous adventure story about two boys chasing after their dog who was kicked out of the church, and facing all kinds of, some real and some imagined, trouble, both for them and the dog. ...

Cuernos debajo de la cama (1969)

A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers. ...

Adventures of Juliancito (1969)

Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo. ...

El tunco Maclovio (1969)

Maclovio, an infamous gunfighter with only one hand, is hired by a rich lady to kill her daughters boyfriend. Maclovio believes he can live in peace after the job but a mysterious man who claims to have unfinished business with him appears. ...

Un nuevo modo de amar (1968)

A phony psychic convinces a young widow that her nest husband will die soon after the wedding... so she tells her fiancé to take a number, and marries a rando to sidestep that problem. ...

Valentín de la Sierra (1968)

Based on the corrido of Valentín de la Sierra, one of the revolutionary leaders who forged the armed struggle in Mexican history. The abuses of the Porfirista government against the humble people lead Valentín to lead a large-scale armed uprising. ...

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 ...

Dos pintores pintorescos (1967)

Two house-painters go to art school. Also bad guys try to kill them. ...

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 matrimonio es como el demonio (1967)

The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes ...

Sangre en Rio Bravo (1966)

Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge. ...

Napoleoncito (1964)

Frente al destino (1964)

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket (1963)

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first so ...

La entrega de Chucho el Roto (1962)

Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series. ...

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. ...

Ojos tapatíos (1961)

The Phantom of the Operetta (1960)

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume. ...

El Violetero (1960)

The Sin of a Mother (1960)

A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later... ...

Refifí entre las mujeres (1958)

School for Buglars (1958)

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims. ...

Trip to the Moon (1958)

In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things. ...

Aladdin and the Marvelous Lamp (1958)

Mexican feature film ...

Mi desconocida esposa (1958)

After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures. ...

La mafia del crimen (1958)

Vanilla, Bronze and to Die (1957)

A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire. ...

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 ...

Comedians of the League (1957)

The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves. ...

Pablo y Carolina (1957)

Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) ...

The Champion Cyclist (1957)

Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: ...

The Adventures of Pito Pérez (1957)

After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia. ...

La adúltera (1956)

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife. ...

Unfaithful Wives (1956)

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

The Brave One (1956)

A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador. ...

Una lección de amor (1956)

An older gentleman takes responsibility for molding a young showgirl's career; there seems to be a romantic link between them, but she has lots of side-pieces running around, and a serious boyfriend waiting in the wings... ...

Spring in the Heart (1956)

Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on. ...

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 ...

The Hidden One (1956)

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader. ...

La sierra del terror (1956)

Federal police agent goes undercover to bust rural crime ring. Series western. ...

¡Viva la juventud! (1956)

Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is mistaken for the best player in the Polytechnic, while in the Unam a student discovers a formula for superp ...

Silent Fear (1956)

Mexico miner Pete Carroll is in Acapulco and meets Terry Perreau and falls in love with her after he hears her singing on a recording of "Extraño amor". The troubled Terry decides she wants to go shark fishing, so Pete poses as the skipper of a fishing bo ...

Melodías de amor (1955)

The Cha Cha Cha Widows (1955)

Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then... ...

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 Medallion of Crime (1955)

Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder. ...

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... ...

Historia de un abrigo de mink (1955)

Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window. ...

El vendedor de muñecas (1955)

A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men. ...

School for Tramps (1955)

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps. ...

Tu vida entre mis manos (1955)

La visita que no tocó el timbre (1954)

Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby. ...

Se solicitan modelos (1954)

In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult ...

Cuando me vaya (1954)

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever. ...

Orquídeas para mi esposa (1954)

El gran autor (1954)

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs. ...

Damned City! (1954)

A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make ...

Un minuto de bondad (1954)

A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors. ...

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. ...

Rebellion of the Hanged (1954)

A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses. ...

La desconocida (1954)

Hijas casaderas (1954)

Mexican feature film ...

El señor fotógrafo (1953)

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Mea ...

Nunca es tarde para amar (1953)

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence. ...

Las infieles (1953)

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications. ...

Fruto prohibido (1953)

A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved. ...

El bombero atómico (1952)

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything g ...

Meat in Prison (1952)

Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't. ...

Mi campeón (1952)

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband. ...

Two Faces Have the Destiny (1952)

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man. ...

Far from Heaven (1952)

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for ...

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 ...

Las locuras de Tin Tan (1952)

Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine. ...

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 ...

Ella y Yo (1951)

Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them. ...

Cárcel de mujeres (1951)

Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven. ...

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. ...