Juan Orol

El tren de la muerte (1979)

A stranger arrives in a small western town and starts gunning for people. ...

El fantástico mundo de los hippies (1972)

The head of the FBI explains that hippies were good, but that they have degenerated due to psychedelic painting, drugs, and becoming addicted to free love. Secret Agent Frank investigates Sandy, whose daughter has disappeared, apparently because of hippies ...

Organización criminal (1968)

A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and Italian mobsters, fails to resolve their differences, and gang war breaks out. ...

Historia de un gángster (1968)

Sequel to Juan Orol's "Organización criminal". After 6 years in prison, gangster Tony Florino is released from custody. He repeatedly makes it clear he didn't snitch in exchange for a reduced sentence, but was given time off for good behavior. ...

Contrabandistas del Caribe (1966)

A crime organization that deals with drug trafficking discovers that more and more drugs keep disappearing. Joe Luciana, a man who is respected for his good deeds, appears to be responsible. ...

Antesala de la silla eléctrica (1966)

A young man is sentenced to death on the electric chair. The lieutenant who captured him does all he can to prevent it, because he is convinced of the man's innocence. ...

Pasiones infernales (1966)

The daughters of the sun are women who meet the erotic needs of pearl fishermen on the island of Samoa. Marcia is the only one of these women who chooses to whom she gives her sensual pleasures. She rejects Mario, the richest man on the island, and falls f ...

La virgen de la calle (1965)

A young woman has to move forward after the death of her mother and the abuse of her stepfather. She decides to be the mistress of a number of rich men. If she were to fall in love, she would keep quiet about her past. But the father of the man she falls f ...

La maldición de mi raza (1964)

A young woman gets in trouble for wanting to deny her ethnic ancestry. ...

Sangre en la barranca (1963)

An innocent love withers when a terrible truth is uncovered. ...

Mi Borinquen querido (1963)

Rosita is a young Puerto Rican woman, beautiful but for her scarred face, which she views as a curse. She ignores the men who serenade her nightly for a manipulative man who pursues her for the money she inherited. ...

Under the Cover of Night (1962)

The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him. ...

La tórtola del Ajusco (1962)

Thaimí, la hija del pescador (1960)

Thaimí, a beautiful and talented fisherman's daughter, becomes a celebrated night club singer as she is torn by the love of two men who happen to be brothers. ...

Plazos traicioneros (1958)

A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution. ...

Secretaria peligrosa (1958)

A secretary plans to rob her boss with the help of her gangster boyfriend and his gang, but a special agent attempts to stop them in their tracks. ...

El farol de la ventana (1958)

Antonio falls in love with Marena, the daughter of a blind woman who believes Antonio is her missing son. ...

Zonga, el ángel diabólico (1957)

A medical researcher arrives at a cursed island and falls in love with an indigenous priestess. ...

Quiéreme con música (1957)

Te odio y te quiero (1957)

La mesera del café del puerto (1957)

A waitress helps a ruined composer. When he triumphs and after a surgery he decides to marry her. ...

Under the influence of fear (1956)

Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella. ...

El sindicato del crimen (1954)

A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death". ...

Sandra, the Woman of Fire (1954)

An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire. ...

The Goddess of Tahiti (1953)

A fugitive hides from justice among smugglers in the deep jungle of an exotic island, but things become complicated when he falls in love with a local cabaret dancer. ...

Hombres sin alma (1951)

Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them. ...

Perdición de mujeres (1951)

Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd. ...

The Hell of the Poor (1951)

A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child. ...

Que idiotas son los hombres (1951)

After divorcing her cheating husband, a newly single still and beautiful woman, (played by Actress Rosa Carmina), travels to Acapulco. She soon becomes the center of attention and spoiled for choice when she finds herself wooed by no less than four handsom ...

Madre querida (1951)

Cabaret Shanghai (1950)

Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him. ...

Wild Love (1950)

Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her. ...

El charro del arrabal (1949)

The plot revolves around Pancho Domínguez, alias "El Charro del Arrabal" (José Pulido), a former cattle rustler turned gangster who controls an extortion racket in the city. The story intensifies when he becomes involved in a turbulent romance with the r ...

El Reino de los Gángsters (1948)

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected. ...

Tania, the Beautiful Wild Girl (1948)

Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another m ...

El amor de mi bohío (1947)

El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyrics o a popular love ballad of the same name. It is Director Juan Orol's tale of a violent love triangle where two farm hands out to prove who is the most mac ...

Gangsters Versus Cowboys (1947)

Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men. ...

Pasiones tormentosas (1946)

In a small tropical town, two sisters fight over the love of a young man named José. Fabiola is a noble woman but Sandra will do anything to get him, including witchcraft. ...

Una mujer de Oriente (1946)

A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his own wife is involved. ...

Embrujo antillano (1946)

Power struggles among the owners of a cigar factory;meanwhile, a society babe and a factory girl compete over the youngest of the executives. ...

Los misterios del hampa (1945)

Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for. ...

Cruel destino (1944)

Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her. ...

Siboney (1940)

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her to become a successful dancer. Over time, she discovers that she is the daughter of a prominent aristocrat ...

Eterna mártir (1937)

A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to ...

El derecho y el deber (1937)

Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man. ...

Honrarás a tus padres (1937)

Know what this is about? ...

El calvario de una esposa (1936)

Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Me ...

Beloved Mother (1935)

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. ...

Olmedo: El rey de la risa (2019)

Aspects of the life of Alberto Olmedo, from his childhood in Rosario, his beginnings as an acrobat and comedian in that city and the continuation of his professional career in Buenos Aires. ...

Ni modo... así somos (1981)

Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'. ...

Adriana del Rio, actriz (1979)

Mexico De Noche (1975)

Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry. ...

El fantástico mundo de los hippies (1972)

The head of the FBI explains that hippies were good, but that they have degenerated due to psychedelic painting, drugs, and becoming addicted to free love. Secret Agent Frank investigates Sandy, whose daughter has disappeared, apparently because of hippies ...

Organización criminal (1968)

A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and Italian mobsters, fails to resolve their differences, and gang war breaks out. ...

Historia de un gángster (1968)

Sequel to Juan Orol's "Organización criminal". After 6 years in prison, gangster Tony Florino is released from custody. He repeatedly makes it clear he didn't snitch in exchange for a reduced sentence, but was given time off for good behavior. ...

Contrabandistas del Caribe (1966)

A crime organization that deals with drug trafficking discovers that more and more drugs keep disappearing. Joe Luciana, a man who is respected for his good deeds, appears to be responsible. ...

Antesala de la silla eléctrica (1966)

A young man is sentenced to death on the electric chair. The lieutenant who captured him does all he can to prevent it, because he is convinced of the man's innocence. ...

Under the Cover of Night (1962)

The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him. ...

Plazos traicioneros (1958)

A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution. ...

Secretaria peligrosa (1958)

A secretary plans to rob her boss with the help of her gangster boyfriend and his gang, but a special agent attempts to stop them in their tracks. ...

Under the influence of fear (1956)

Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella. ...

El sindicato del crimen (1954)

A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death". ...

Hombres sin alma (1951)

Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them. ...

Perdición de mujeres (1951)

Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd. ...

The Hell of the Poor (1951)

A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child. ...

Cabaret Shanghai (1950)

Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him. ...

El Reino de los Gángsters (1948)

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected. ...

El amor de mi bohío (1947)

El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyrics o a popular love ballad of the same name. It is Director Juan Orol's tale of a violent love triangle where two farm hands out to prove who is the most mac ...

Gangsters Versus Cowboys (1947)

Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men. ...

Una mujer de Oriente (1946)

A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his own wife is involved. ...

Los misterios del hampa (1945)

Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for. ...

Siboney (1940)

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her to become a successful dancer. Over time, she discovers that she is the daughter of a prominent aristocrat ...

Eterna mártir (1937)

A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to ...

El derecho y el deber (1937)

Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man. ...

Honrarás a tus padres (1937)

Know what this is about? ...

El calvario de una esposa (1936)

Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Me ...

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. ...