Lupita Tovar

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, ...

Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006)

"Secrets of a Hollywood Star" is another documentary made after "Calling Hedy Lamarr" in 2006. It features interviews with Hedy's friends in both Europe and Hollywood and her film/studio partners. ...

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2002)

Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies. ...

The Road to 'Dracula' (1999)

A documentary from Universal about the movie "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi. ...

Universal Horror (1998)

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s. ...

Vampires: Thirst for the Truth (1996)

A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historical accounts, literary works, and as they are portrayed in film and television. ...

The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)

A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower. ...

Gun to Gun (1944)

Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall. Steve has just delivered a large herd of cattle to the ranch, where Don Diego has just found out that he must pay the local tax commissioner, Harkne ...

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. ...

Resurrección (1943)

This is an early film from Director Gilberto Martinez Solares, who would go on to become better-known for his unique perspective on horror films of the 60's and 70's - like "Santanico Pademonium" "Face of the Screaming Wolf" and his own "House of Terror", ...

Two Gun Sheriff (1941)

A notorious outlaw is recruited by a cattle buyer, secret boss of a gang of cattle rustlers, to impersonate the town sheriff, who is the outlaw's twin brother; and complications ensue, as the sheriff, now a hostage, is on the eve of his marriage while the ...

The Westerner (1940)

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has ...

Green Hell (1940)

A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure. ...

South of the Border (1939)

A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution. ...

Tropic Fury (1939)

An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation. ...

The Fighting Gringo (1939)

A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder. ...

El rosario de Amozoc (1938)

Blockade (1938)

A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage. ...

María (1938)

The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full r ...

Rose Hobart (1936)

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in a ...

Marihuana (El monstruo verde) (1936)

An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia. ...

The Invader (1936)

A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love. ...

Broken Lives (1935)

Santa (1932)

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa ...

Border Law (1931)

When Shag Smith kills Jim's brother Bob, Jim and Thunder quit the rangers so they can cross the border and join Smith's gang. Jim's plan is to get the gang to cross back over the border where the rangers will be waiting. ...

East of Borneo (1931)

Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose d ...

Yankee Don (1931)

A crook on the run from the law in New York flees to Mexico, where he falls for a beautiful young Mexican girl and tries to help her father save the family estate from a gang of criminals. ...

Carne de Cabaret (1931)

This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena. ...