José María Linares Rivas

De carne somos (1955)

Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living. ...

A Stranger on the Stairs (1955)

Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba. ...

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. ...

La mujer X (1955)

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son. ...

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. ...

Una mujer en la calle (1955)

An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady. ...

Ley fuga (1954)

As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain. ...

El gran autor (1954)

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

Dos mundos y un amor (1954)

Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage. ...

El valor de vivir (1954)

Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina. ...

El último round (1953)

Shady promoter hires a new boy for his boxing stable, but the young champ won't go along with his boss'es scams and machinations. ...

My Three Merry Widows (1953)

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

Un divorcio (1953)

Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over h ...

El misterio del carro express (1953)

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery. ...

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. ...

El mensaje de la muerte (1953)

The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana. ...

Me traes de un ala (1953)

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy m ...

Love, how bad you are! (1953)

Noirish drama about a drug trafficker and his girlfriends. ...

The Revived Monster (1953)

Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad sc ...

Cuatro horas antes de morir (1953)

The film tells the intense countdown of a woman sentenced to death. ...

El jugador (1953)

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. ...

El cuarto cerrado (1952)

A man gives his testimony to a doctor, believing he hears the voice of his deceased wife, Diana. ...

Música, mujeres y amor (1952)

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

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. ...

El derecho de nacer (1952)

In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor ...

La justicia del lobo (1952)

Masked avenger rights wrongs in his home town. Second of four in a series. ...

La loca (1952)

Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited... ...

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. ...

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. ...

Acapulco (1952)

Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband. ...

Lodo y armiño (1951)

Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously. ...

Noche de perdición (1951)

A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her. ...

Port of Temptation (1951)

Black Is My Color (1951)

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life") ...

In the Flesh (1951)

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

Tale of a Heart (1951)

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. ...

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. ...

La malcasada (1950)

Yo también soy de Jalisco (1950)

A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household. ...

Donde nacen los pobres (1950)

Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone. ...

El pecado de quererte (1950)

Doña Diabla (1950)

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest. ...

La gota de sangre (1950)

Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess? ...

La virgen desnuda (1950)

Melodrama based on the homonymous novel by the Spanish writer José María Carretero Novillo (El Caballero Audaz), which tells a romantic story about a pair of lovers who endure great suffering in their attempt to be together. ...

El Charro del Cristo (1949)

Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel. ...

La venenosa (1949)

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline. ...

Los amores de una viuda (1949)

A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears. ...

Negra consentida (1949)

Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married. ...

La hermana impura (1948)

Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past. ...

La mujer del otro (1948)

Back Streets of Juarez (1947)

In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past reappears unexpectedly. ...

It Happened in Havana (1938)

Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs. ...

Guard! Alert! (1937)

The young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money. ...

Crisis mundial (1937)

Who Loves Me? (1936)

In order to save her marriage, the famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the stage. ...

La bien pagada (1935)

El negro que tenía el alma blanca (1934)

Destino de mujer (1934)

A young woman is seduced by an evil doctor and then sent to a brothel to be sexually exploited. ...

Madrid se divorcia (1934)

La Dolorosa (1934)

After a society lady abandons him for a cad, a sensitive young painter becomes a monk. But when his former beloved is later destitute with an illegitimate child, will he now be able to help her? ...

Um Homem às Direitas (1945)

The confrontation of two different temperaments: Figueiredo, a hard-working shopkeeper; his brother-in-law, José, disorderly and wasteful, heir to a family with noble titles but poor. Figueiredo tries to rescue José from this path of perversion that had ...