Julio Villarreal

Two Ghosts and a Girl (1959)

Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers. ...

El gran premio (1958)

Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate. ...

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. ...

Préstame tu cuerpo (1958)

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body. ...

Los salvajes (1958)

Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance. ...

Horas de agonía (1958)

Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark. ...

Locos Peligrosos (1957)

A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, t ...

Morir de pie (1957)

A young woman gives herself to her boyfriend but is forced to marry an army officer, who takes revenge on him. ...

Here are the eagles! (1957)

Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle la patrona's cattle and set fire to her stables. ...

La faraona (1956)

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. Howev ...

The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur. ...

Wild Heart (1956)

On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman. ...

Historia de un amor (1956)

Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple's life—until one day the girl's grandfather appears. ...

La culpa de los hombres (1955)

A factory worker gets pregnant by the son of her boss, who forces his son to marry a rich girl he doesn't love. ...

Seven Cities of Gold (1955)

In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions. ...

Padre contra hijo (1955)

Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango. ...

Yo no creo en los hombres (1955)

In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses. ...

Morir para vivir (1954)

A voodoo warlock turns a girl into a zombie, by the orders of her stepmother, so she can continue her affair with the girl's boyfriend. ...

La rosa blanca (1954)

Píntame angelitos blancos (1954)

Orphaned by a father and children by a black mother, the little one is rejected by his grandmother, while the girl must deny her own mother. ...

Take Me in Your Arms (1954)

To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star. ...

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. ...

Miradas que matan (1954)

Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain. ...

La ladrona (1954)

Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress. ...

El valor de vivir (1954)

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

The Witch (1954)

Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge o ...

Reportaje (1953)

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve. ...

¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera! (1953)

Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties. ...

Eugenia Grandet (1953)

A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter. ...

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 ...

Plunder of the Sun (1953)

An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca. ...

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 ...

Quiero vivir (1953)

Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation. ...

Cuatro horas antes de morir (1953)

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

El jugador (1953)

When the Fog Lifts (1952)

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family. ...

A Woman Without Love (1952)

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend ...

The Straying Rooster (1952)

A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate. ...

La miel se fue de la luna (1952)

Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa ...

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. ...

Sangre en el barrio (1952)

Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification. ...

La mujer que tu quieres (1952)

El cardenal (1951)

Mexican feature film ...

Doña Perfecta (1951)

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and ...

La bienamada (1951)

Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n... ...

Las Islas Marias (1951)

Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man. ...

La Hija De La Otra (1951)

Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it. ...

Si usted no puede, yo sí (1951)

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great g ...

Tierra baja (1951)

A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father. ...

Capitán de Rurales (1951)

Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government. ...

One Day of Life (1950)

A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his for ...

La loca de la casa (1950)

A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father. ...

The Torch (1950)

The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change. ...

The Love Nest (1950)

Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his com ...

Red Rain (1950)

Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership. ...

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. ...

Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation. ...

Hay lugar para... dos (1949)

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan! ...

The Unloved Woman (1949)

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man ...

Felipe de Jesús (1949)

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico. ...

Soy Charro de Levita (1949)

Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the funniest adventures you can imagine. ...

Cuando los padres se quedan solos (1949)

Mom and dad make sacrifices for the sake of their adult children. And then more sacrifices. And more. ...

¡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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Honeymoon (1947)

A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City. ...

El puente del castigo (1946)

In a Mexican village during XIX century, word spread of a curse. Old José tells Carmen about the curse surrounding the Bridge of Punishment, said to affect anyone who wishes for another person's death. ...

La Devoradora (1946)

After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse. ...

Pepita Jiménez (1946)

On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready ...

Una vírgen moderna (1946)

La casa de la zorra (1945)

The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself. ...

Bugambilia (1945)

In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of ...

The White Monk (1945)

In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his p ...

Vertigo (1945)

Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death. ...

Mas allá del amor (1945)

A street urchin helps a severe alcoholic with recovery, and he repays the favor by mentoring the boy and putting him through school. When the boy grows up, there are romantic problems to deal with... ...

Twilight (1945)

Doctor Alejandro Mangino falls in love with Lucía just before he goes on a round-the-world trip. Pining for her all the while, he returns to find that she's married his best friend. ...

Camino de Sacramento (1945)

Twin brothers, one of them a bandit, in Mexican California. ...

Adultery (1945)

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate. ...

Mi lupe y mi caballo (1944)

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 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. ...

The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland (1942)

On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe. ...

Yo bailé con Don Porfirio (1942)

Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music m ...

Story of a Great Love (1942)

Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love. ...

The Three Musketeers (1942)

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne. ...

Passion Island (1942)

1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that i ...

Alejandra (1942)

There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married. ...

El conde de Montecristo (1942)

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable ...

Simón Bolívar (1942)

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

The Unknown Policeman (1941)

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle ...

Hombre o demonio (1940)

A 1940 film. ...

Mi madrecita (1940)

Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down... ...

Café Concordia (1939)

During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to ...

Corazón de niño (1939)

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

Tu hijo (1935)

Monja, casada, virgen y mártir (1935)

Who Killed Eve? (1934)

A murder mystery. ...

Desecration (1934)

La sangre manda (1934)

La calandria (1933)

A 1933 film. ...

Una vida por otra (1932)

There Were Thirteen (1931)

This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room. ...

Law of the Harem (1931)

When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk! ...

Don Juan diplomático (1931)

The ambassador of a Ruritanian land charges his attache with cozying up to the wife of the war minister, to get her to make her husband change his mind on a treaty he opposes.Complications both political and romantic ensue. ...

El niño de las monjas (1944)

It tells the story of a boy from an orphanage, raised in a convent, who saves a young woman who supports the institution from being gored by a bull, and later leaves the convent to follow the girl he had helped and to become a bullfighter. ...