Pedro Vargas

Perdida (2009)

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and u ...

The King of San Gregorio (2005)

Pedro and Cati live in the San Gregorio township. They must fight for their love despite the over-protection and fears of their families. ...

A Butterfly in the Night (1976)

A prostitute in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord. ...

El jibarito Rafael (1968)

Relates the life of one of Puerto Rico's most loved and revered composer and songwriter, Rafael Hernández. ...

Retablos de la Guadalupana (1967)

From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles. ...

Un ángel de mal genio (1964)

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket (1963)

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first so ...

The Paper Man (1963)

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. ...

Mexico lindo y querido (1961)

Tourist's eye overview of some highlights of Mexican history and folk culture, all expressed through interpretive dance. ...

Las canciones unidas (1960)

Film clips of songs by performers from around the world. ...

Three Black Angels (1960)

Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas. ...

Cada quien su musica (1959)

Unscrupulous promoter creates hostilities that ruin the friendships between six young musicians. ...

Flor de canela (1959)

Nightclub entertainer discovers the truth about her birth mother while making the right choice in her love life, choosing the good guy over the slimy, exploitative hoodlum. ...

Bolero Inmortal (1958)

Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man. ...

Locos por la televisión (1958)

Nightclub owners try to scrape up enough money to sponsor a variety show on TV to publicize their artists and their venue. ...

La feria de San Marcos (1958)

Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings. ...

Música y dinero (1958)

Restaurant/nightclub is sinking into bankruptcy and management team pull wacky shit to try to get back on their feet. ...

Cuando Mexico canta (1958)

Lorenzo Inclán, a famous Mexican songwriter, is torn between helping a girl become a famous singer or having a romantic relationship with her. ...

Música en la noche (1958)

An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder. ...

Los tres bohemios (1957)

Three struggling musicians share an apartment. ...

Los chiflados del rock and roll (1957)

Teatro del crimen (1957)

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer. ...

Golden Wedding (1956)

On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage ...

Pensión de artistas (1956)

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show. ...

Forbidden Kisses (1956)

Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband. ...

Una Movida Chueca (1956)

Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future. ...

Espaldas mojadas (1955)

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his n ...

De ranchero a empresario (1954)

Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture. ...

Reportaje (1953)

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

Condemned to Hang (1953)

Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited. ...

Nadie muere dos veces (1953)

Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications! ...

Cinnamon Skin (1953)

Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime. ...

Si, Mi vida (1953)

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy. ...

Había una vez un marido (1953)

Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits. ...

Caribbean (1953)

Mexican feature film ...

Forgotten Faces (1952)

A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters. ...

Víctimas del divorcio (1952)

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

Por qué peca la mujer (1952)

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass. ...

La noche es nuestra (1952)

Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past. ...

Hay un niño en su futuro (1952)

Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she ...

Burlada (1951)

Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women. ...

La marquesa del barrio (1951)

Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life. ...

Victims of Sin (1951)

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy. ...

El pecado de ser pobre (1950)

Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison. ...

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 ...

A La Habana me voy (1950)

Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end. ...

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. ...

Perdida (1950)

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and... ...

Pobre corazón (1950)

Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad. ...

Mujeres en mi Vida (1950)

Mexican romantic musical. ...

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 ...

El abandonado (1949)

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery. ...

One Sin A Month (1949)

Paloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and he doesn't know that she is only pretending to be the daughter of the great business tycoon B. Quintana... ...

Ojos de juventud (1948)

A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets! ...

Ahí vienen los Mendoza (1948)

Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff. ...

Revancha (1948)

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret. ...

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. ...

I'm a Real Mexican (1942)

Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda. ...

Canto a mi tierra (1938)

Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town. ...

Victims of Sin (1951)

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy. ...

El pecado de ser pobre (1950)

Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison. ...