Francisco Jambrina

Santo vs. The Ring Villains (1968)

Santo fights a group of phony spiritualists who are trying to scam his god-daughter out of her 6 million peso inheritance. ...

Amelia (1966)

After going through the stages of courtship and marriage, Amelia and Jorge's apparent perfect love ends in estrangement, boredom, abandonment, and tragedy. ...

Miracle Roses (1960)

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary. ...

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 ...

The Woman and the Beast (1959)

Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl. ...

Scared to Death (1958)

A young woman hires Viruta y Capulina to find a notorious jewel thief, known as Rostov. ...

Ladrones de niños (1958)

Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA. ...

La Diana Cazadora (1957)

A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City. ...

La sombra de Cruz Diablo (1955)

Maternidad imposible (1955)

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and... ...

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. ...

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. ...

The Three Perfect Married (1953)

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings. ...

Soledad's Shawl (1952)

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most. ...

Night Falls (1952)

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge. ...

La mujer que tu quieres (1952)

Mujeres sin mañana (1951)

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub. ...

Monte de piedad (1951)

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop. ...

The Young and the Damned (1950)

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others. ...

Huellas del pasado (1950)

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations. ...

The Possession (1950)

Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it. ...

The Black Sheep (1949)

The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Ave de paso (1948)

Mexican movie ...

¡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 ...

La insaciable (1947)

Gran Casino (1947)

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts ...

Me persigue una mujer (1947)

El ahijado de la muerte (1946)

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son. ...

Capullito de alhelí (1945)

Miguel Strogoff (1944)

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines. He encounters many colorful characters along the way. ...

El hombre de la máscara de hierro (1943)

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. ...

Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications. ...

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. ...

Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho (1943)

Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico. ...

The Prodigious Barber (1942)

Benedito the barber, mocked by everyone in the village, lathers the head of a blind customer just as the man regains his sight. Benedito becomes a celebrity, and everyone seeks his services. ...

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 ...

Simón Bolívar (1942)

Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America. ...

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 ...

Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)

Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justini ...

No basta ser madre (1937)

Venganza suprema (1934)

Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail. ...