José Ortiz de Zárate

L’home ronyó (1983)

El mujeriego (1964)

El secreto de mi mujer (1955)

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage. ...

Dos mundos y un amor (1954)

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

To the sound of the Charleston (1954)

The musicians of a show hire the impersonator of a famous singer and have great success. ...

Dios los cría (1953)

Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. ...

Juzgado permanente (1953)

El vagabundo (1953)

Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus. ...

Víctimas del divorcio (1952)

The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife. ...

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 ...

Enseñame a besar (1952)

Mexican feature film ...

Sensualidad (1951)

A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart. ...

The Magician (1949)

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas. ...

Secreto entre mujeres (1949)

Marta, a maid at the boarding house run by her aunt Doña Laura, prevents the lodger Elena from committing suicide over the writer Arturo, who has proposed that they live together instead of getting married. Arturo then tries to seduce another lodger, the ...

Hermoso ideal (1948)

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff. ...

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. ...

Quite a Gentleman (1947)

An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO's short lived Latin American production arm Ramex. ...

Fantasía ranchera (1947)

Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece. ...

Sol y sombra (1946)

Manuel retires from bullfighting and, years later, runs a fighting bull ranch. ...

Soy un prófugo (1946)

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits. ...

Tú eres la luz (1946)

Mamá Inés (1946)

Rosa de las nieves (1944)

It follows a group of mountaineers who take shelter from a fierce blizzard in the isolated cabin of a man named Leonardo. When he refuses to open the door, a local guide reveals to them the tragic story of love, sacrifice, and heartbreak that led him to cu ...

La trepadora (1944)

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story. ...

Tribunal de Justicia (1944)

Mexican movie ...

Divorciadas (1943)

Divorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her lat ...

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. ...

Romeo y Julieta (1943)

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the ...

El Jorobado (1943)

Historical drama/swashbuckler: Spain during the Inquisition. ...

El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) (1943)

After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher. ...

Cristóbal Colón (1943)

El Verdugo De Sevilla (1942)

Comedy set in Spanish boarding house. ...

La canción del plateado (1942)

Virgen de medianoche (1942)

A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman. ...

The Epic of the Journey (1942)

Know what this is about? ...

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! (1941)

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy. ...

¡Que viene mi marido! (1940)

Carita finds herself forced to reject the advances of her wealthy godfather because she already has a steady boyfriend. Spurned, the godfather changes his will, stipulating that the five million pesos he leaves to his goddaughter can only be claimed once s ...

Miente y serás feliz (1940)

A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles... ...

Corazón de niño (1939)

All through the school-year with a teacher and his fifth-grade boys. ...

El circo trágico (1939)

El crimen del expreso (1939)

Luna Criolla (1939)

El Cementerio De Las Aguilas (1938)

When the U.S. invasion and the landing of troops in 1847 begins, the former cadet Miguel de la Peña (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Agustin Melgar (Jose Macip) decide to return to the military college and fight heroically in the defense of the Mexican army ...

El beso mortal (1938)

Adapted from "Le mortel baiser", a stage play by French writer Loïc Le Gouriadec (also known as Paul Gury). The story follows Cecilia, the daughter of a wealthy and conservative family, who is about to marry the son of the town's mayor. When a physician s ...

La golondrina (1938)

American journalist in Yucatan falls into the orbit of a local politician. ...

Un viejo amor (1938)

Las tandas del principal (1949)

Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. ...