Rafael Alcayde

Buenos días, Acapulco (1964)

Los detectives Viruta y Capulina, viajan al Puerto de Acapulco, para cuidar de Ricardo, joven hijo de un rico. Durante el trayecto levantan a la cantante Mayté. Un tal Guillermo secuestra al muchacho usando de anzuelo a Silvia y lo suben en un bote. Virut ...

Ten Days To Tulara (1958)

Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor and Rodolfo Hoyos. ...

Villa!! (1958)

Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa ...

The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)

A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills wh ...

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 Brave One (1956)

A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador. ...

The Hidden One (1956)

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader. ...

Basket of Mexican Tales (1956)

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as ...

Drop the Curtain (1955)

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back. ...

Los líos de Barba Azul (1955)

A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women. ...

Pancho Villa Returns (1950)

It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero. ...

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. ...

The Mark of the Skunk (1950)

In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, ...

Venus de fuego (1949)

Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle. ...

La venenosa (1949)

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline. ...

La vorágine: abismos de amor (1949)

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditio ...

El Colmillo de Buda (1949)

Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue. ...

Secreto entre mujeres (1949)

Marta, a maid at the boarding house run by her aunt Doña Laura, prevents the lodger Elena from committing suicide over the writer Arturo, who has proposed that they live together instead of getting married. Arturo then tries to seduce another lodger, the ...

I Slept With a Ghost (1949)

Ghost horror-comedy. ...

Mi esposa busca novio (1948)

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. ...

Soledad (1947)

Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a ...

The Kneeling Goddess (1947)

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary. ...

Cinco rostros de mujer (1947)

"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be? ...

El socio (1946)

A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ... ...

Soy un prófugo (1946)

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits. ...

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 ...

Cantaclaro (1946)

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself. ...

Footlight Glamour (1943)

Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production. ...

Submarine Base (1943)

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes ...

Background to Danger (1943)

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey. ...

The Powers Girl (1943)

Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy. ...

Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arriv ...

When Ladies Meet (1941)

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is. ...

Blood and Sand (1941)

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring. ...

Repent at Leisure (1941)

Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband. ...

Flight from Destiny (1941)

After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forg ...

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on the other, he is the masked avenger Zorro. ...

Arise, My Love (1940)

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins. ...

Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)

Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. ...

Meet the Wildcat (1940)

Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses ...

Down Argentine Way (1940)

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which ...

The Howards of Virginia (1940)

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefiel ...

New Moon (1940)

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana. ...

Torrid Zone (1940)

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl. ...

I Take This Woman (1940)

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums. ...

Another Thin Man (1939)

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate. ...

Code of the Secret Service (1939)

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates. ...

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract. ...

Straight, Place and Show (1938)

The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée. ...

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal. ...

Castles in the Air (1938)

After winning a trip to Hollywood, office typist Lolita Álvarez (Cristina Téllez) travels to the city of dreams on an ocean liner in the company of her aunt Gertrudis (Pilar Arcos). During the trip, she meets and falls for banker Alberto Guzmán (Rafael ...

Wise Girl (1937)

Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on ...

The Bride Wore Red (1937)

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor. ...

Thanks for Listening (1937)

Homer Tompkins, a trusting young musician with aspirations of becoming a radio star, is installed in a fine set of offices in Reno by a quartet of con artists who have bugged rooms and suites, with the title of "professional listener", and he passes off wh ...

They Met in a Taxi (1936)

A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace. ...

The Golden Arrow (1936)

A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys. ...

The House of a Thousand Candles (1936)

The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be m ...

Stars Over Broadway (1935)

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation. ...

Music Is Magic (1935)

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus. ...

Here Comes Cookie (1935)

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young gi ...

Broadway Gondolier (1935)

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job. ...

The Misses Stooge (1935)

Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician. ...

The Fighting Pilot (1935)

An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the bo ...

Kiss and Make-Up (1934)

Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean ...

Only Yesterday (1933)

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World ...

Cynara (1932)

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback. ...