María Gentil Arcos

When mommy comes back (1961)

A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without parental support. ...

El gran espectáculo (1958)

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. ...

Hay ángeles con espuelas (1957)

Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest. ...

Spring in the Heart (1956)

Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on. ...

Enemigos (1956)

One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households. ...

Los margaritos (1956)

Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman. ...

Ultraje al amor (1956)

Mexican feature film ...

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. ...

..Y mañana serán mujeres (1955)

Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa. ...

What a Man (1955)

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl. ...

Guanajuato Road (1955)

The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio. ...

Chucho el Roto (1954)

Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime. ...

Los Fernández de Peralvillo (1954)

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal. ...

Romance de fieras (1954)

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son. ...

Cuando me vaya (1954)

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever. ...

Las tres Elenas (1954)

A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend. ...

Lo que no se puede perdonar!.. (1953)

Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well. ...

Frontera norte (1953)

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster. ...

Cuarto de hotel (1953)

Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again. ...

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 ...

Él (1953)

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath. ...

Prefiero a tu papá (1952)

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends. ...

El bombero atómico (1952)

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything g ...

A Place Close to Heaven (1952)

An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope. ...

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... ...

Far from Heaven (1952)

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for ...

Paco, el elegante (1952)

Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms. ...

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 ...

Cárcel de mujeres (1951)

Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven. ...

Nunca debieron amarse (1951)

Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other. ...

For Loving a Woman (1951)

Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders. ...

Monte de piedad (1951)

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop. ...

Fierecilla (1951)

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later... ...

Susana (1951)

The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry. ...

Slum (1950)

Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight... ...

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. ...

Aventurera (1950)

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her ...

Las dos huerfanitas (1950)

Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies. ...

They also sing of pain (1950)

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. ...

La vida en broma (1950)

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others. ...

White hair (1950)

Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot. ...

El Portero (1950)

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pin ...

Otra primavera (1950)

His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out? ...

Guardián, el perro salvador (1950)

Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances! ...

Love Pays for Love (1950)

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries. ...

Yo quiero ser mala (1950)

In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinkin ...

Las tandas del principal (1949)

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

La dama del velo (1949)

Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later... ...

El Mago (1949)

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

A Family Like Many Others (1949)

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman. ...

Comisario en turno (1949)

Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out. ...

Rosenda (1948)

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her. ...

We the Poor (1948)

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony. ...

Ave de paso (1948)

Mexican movie ...

Los Cristeros (1947)

When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family. ...

La reina del trópico (1946)

A movie about people and stuff. ...

Champion Without Crown (1946)

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rou ...

Caminos de sangre (1945)

A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Woman Without a Soul (1944)

Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast. ...

San Francisco de Asís (1944)

Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi. ...

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. ...