René Cardona Jr.

¡Qué rica la risa! (2006)

Las pasiones de sor Juana (2002)

The spirit of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz becomes known through a student who goes to Mexico to finish her thesis, confronting a century saturated with marvelous inventions but also plagued with injustices. ...

Cuando calienta el sol (2000)

Que bonita familia: Papá 2000 (2000)

Mexican feature film ...

Secretarias privadísimas (2000)

Angel of Light (1998)

An ancient warrior is looking to correct the error that cost him to lose heaven. ...

De ladito me da risa (1998)

The sixteenth entry in the sketch comedy series. ...

No se puede con la risa (1998)

The fifteenth entry in the sketch comedy series. ...

Más sabroso con la risa (1997)

Comedy skits and pranks on unsuspecting victims, filmed on location at the beach. ...

Me ganó la risa (1997)

Sketch comedy performed a trio of performers. ...

La buenota risa (1997)

A series of comedy skits performed by Pedro, Pablo and Paco. ...

La risa calientita (1997)

A series of comedy skits performed by Pedro, Pablo y Paco. ...

La risa en vacaciones 8 (1996)

New collection of jokes assumptions unwary. ...

La Risa En Vacaciones 7 (1995)

La Risa En Vacaciones 6 (1995)

The seventh installment in the original vacation prankster film series. ...

A Woman's Revenge (1995)

The story follows Ricardo, a successful businessman who is unfaithful to his wife, Elsa. When Elsa discovers his infidelity, she decides to take matters into her own hands by plotting his demise. However, her plan quickly becomes more complicated than expe ...

The Man in White (1994)

After accidentally witnessing a serial killer's brutal murder of a policeman, Erika must race to get herself and her daughter out of the killer's path before his blood-soaked rampage includes them as well. ...

La risa en vacaciones 5 (1994)

La risa en vacaciones 4 (1994)

Fourth installment of the crazy jokes with hidden camera ...

¿Dónde quedó la bolita? (1993)

The singing group "Garibaldi" go to Ixtapa. ...

La risa en vacaciones 3 (1992)

Funny candid camera in which some droll performances depicting real life situations are interspersed artists. ...

La risa en vacaciones 2 (1991)

Second installment of the jokes crazy laughter. ...

Dangerous Summer (1991)

The bride Claudia spends his first marriage night with the sponsor of her wedding, because in the intoxication of the celebration were confused. The husband comes the next morning, but the sponsor does not give way. Discussed and then put the first deadly ...

Deliciosa Sinvergüenza (1990)

The nice wit and the Lucerito's skill to transform and to change constantly of personality, confuse three lunatics and crazy agents of the international service that pursue with great earnestness to the dangerous and mischievous delinquent, causing amusing ...

Furia asesina (1990)

Scientists do an investigation on sharks as they believe they can cure deadly diseases. ...

Laughing while on vacations (1990)

Comedians play pranks on unsuspecting people vacationing at the beach. ...

Me muero de la risa (1990)

A film full of comedy skits of all kinds. ...

Goza conmigo (1990)

Santa Sangre (1989)

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name. ...

Playback (1989)

A psychiatrist is brutally raped and takes her revenge in a bizarre game of cat and mouse. ...

Placeres divertidos (1989)

Sabor a mí (1988)

A biopic on the life of Mexican composer Álvaro Carrillo Morales. ...

But I'm Still the King (1988)

Fictionalized biography of singer/songwriter Jose Alfredo Jimenez. ...

Birds of Prey (1987)

Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story of a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her cameraman Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds thirty year ...

La Casa Que Arde de Noche (1987)

A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner. ...

Escápate conmigo (1987)

Lucerito is a teenager of 17 who lives in a gloomy castle that belongs to her aunt Raymunda, her tutor and executor, too. Raymunda is very strict and scold and she makes Lucerito's life impossible and she wants to marry her to Don Gastón forcely. One day ...

Fiebre de Amor (1985)

A teenage girl with a crush on a young popular singing star sneaks into his house to fulfill her dreams of meeting him. Together they accidentally run into a group of diamond smugglers and she becomes the victim of a kidnapping. The young star comes to her ...

Treasure of the Amazon (1985)

An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle. ...

Siempre en domingo (1984)

Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized. ...

¡¡Cachún Cachún Ra-Ra!! (Una loca, loca, preparatoria) (1984)

High-school hijinks and song/dance numbers. ...

Escuela de Placer (1984)

Heirs of a bankrupt relative decide that the only way they can avoid sacrificing their inherited property to pay debts is by opening a brothel. ...

Adiós Lagunilla, adiós (1984)

Middle-aged couple's adult children decide to emigrate to USA. Third movie in trilogy. ...

Buenas y con... movidas (1983)

Sex-worker tries to pose as a society matron long enough to receive a visit from her daughter, the daughter's fiancé and his family. ...

Chile Picante (1983)

A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover. ...

Huevos rancheros (1982)

Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water. ...

Johnny Chicano (1981)

A young peasant falls in love with his American boss, creating nothing but trouble for his Mexican girlfriend and his family. ...

Burlesque (1980)

Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience members. ...

Traficantes Del Panico (1980)

A band of thugs belonging to an organized crime family assaults several casinos at the same time creating death and panic in their wake. As they flee the scenes of their crimes police begin to close in on them, so they quickly hide themselves in a villa ow ...

Carlos El Terrorista (1980)

After assassinating his boss -- who just so happens to be an important underworld crime figure -- Carlos (Andres Garcia) turns to the one place he can think of to keep him safe: the CIA. But the top secret government organization inexplicably responds to t ...

Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979)

This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. When Ji ...

Cyclone (1978)

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors reso ...

The Bermuda Triangle (1978)

The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray into the famed Bermuda Triangle and mysterious things start happening. ...

Gorilla's King (1977)

An African safari is attacked by savage natives and the sole survivor is an infant who is adopted and raised by gorillas. As he is growing up, his only human friend is a native boy he happens to meet in a chance encounter. He grows to be a young adult, dis ...

Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast. ...

Survive! (1976)

A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism. ...

Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon (1975)

1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcom ...

El pequeño Robin Hood (1975)

Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wa ...

El valle de los miserables (1975)

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, ...

La disputa (1974)

The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots. ...

Island of Lost Souls (1974)

Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and ...

Guns and Guts (1974)

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help th ...

La tigresa (1973)

Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents. ...

The Invasion of the Dead (1973)

Professor Bruno Volpi spots some strange paintings on a cliff. He sends for Professor Zovek to help him discover its meaning. Zovek uses his powers to figure the writings are a warning that a cosmic tragedy is going to happen. Their fears prove to be true ...

Zindy, the Swamp Boy (1973)

The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson ...

Masajista de señoras (1973)

This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures. ...

Peluquero de señoras (1973)

Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave like a massive queen for the imposture to work... ...

The Enchanted Island (1973)

Robinson Crusoe teaches children Viernes the principles of the white man's culture and build a raft to leave the island to calling "of despair". Shortly before finishing rescue a white men and the father Friday when they will be slaughtered by cannibals. T ...

A Twelve Year Old Pirate (1972)

In the sixteenth Captain Morgan pirate ship is sunk by the Spanish fleet. He and four companions make it to an island, but the beaches are occupied by the Spanish. The child Erick, son of John Goldark, King of the Pirates, who died trying to save his nephe ...

Vanessa (1972)

A woman is dissatisfied with her husband and resorts to another woman. ...

The Night of a Thousand Cats (1972)

Lured to a demented playboy's secluded castle for a romantic evening, unsuspecting women become dinner for his 1000 cats. ...

La Martina (1972)

Martina is a liberal woman who arrives to a small town, with his godfather. Here, Martina will met with her secret love, a typical "macho-ranchero" man, demanding her hand in matrimony. But he rejects Martina, claiming that she's not virgin and will return ...

¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza! (1972)

Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels. ...

Bang bang al hoyo (1971)

Parody western about a poofy gunslinger and his brothers. ...

Caín, Abel... y el Otro (1971)

Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together... ...

Wait for me in Siberia, Darling! (1971)

Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it. ...

Departamento de soltero (1971)

Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities. ...

Robinson Crusoe (1970)

The classic Daniel Defoe tale as told by a narrating tiger that witnesses castaway Robinson Crusoe's struggles to survive the man-eating cannibals on the tropical island ...

OK Cleopatra (1970)

A horse jockey believes his dead uncle's spirit has entered a mare named Cleopatra, which belongs to a moneygrubbing rancher. ...

La mujer de oro (1970)

Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works. ...

La hermana Trinquete (1970)

Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent. ...

El cuerpazo del delito (1970)

Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios. ...

Friar Juan (1970)

A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer. ...

Click, fotógrafo de modelos (1970)

Mauricio is a photographer that works for a very important advertisement company. It all starts with Mauricio's work being criticized by the company, to which Mauricio jumps into the discussion and explains to the company that his idea was misinterpreted, ...

Awakening of the Wolf (1970)

Young woman looking for a rich husband, sets her sights on a very pious and old-fashioned neighbor. ...

How to Kill my Husband (1970)

Dissatisfied wife has elaborate daydreams about murdering her husband. ...

Vuelve el ojo de vidrio (1970)

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution. ...

El ojo de vidrio (1969)

Modisto de Señoras (1969)

Successful fashiondesigner D'Maurice seduces married women while he pretends to be gay in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his clientele's husbands ...

24 horas de placer (1969)

Man develops a reputation as a great bedroom athlete after publishing a 'spicy' novel. ...

Las Fieras (1969)

Historia de un grupo de estafadores internacionales y sus artimañas. ...

Danger...! Women in Action (1969)

A new adventure of secret agent Alex Dynamo on land, in the air, and in the treacherous swamps. Alex Dynamo goes up against the S.O.S. organization, a sinister group of beautiful girls driven by a lust for blood. ...

El mundo de los aviones (1969)

The crazy adventures of a third-rate mechanic who works in a hangar at Mexico City airport. This mechanic spends his time telling fictional adventures to a little boy named "Memin," who calls himself "his co-pilot." One day, "Captain Thousand Hours" is for ...

Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)

A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results. ...

El día de la boda (1968)

The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens. ...

The Treasure of Moctezuma (1968)

Santo and Jorge Rivero team-up to stop an international syndicate from stealing Mexico's greatest treasure. ...

Operation 67 (1967)

The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy. ...

Un par de robachicos (1967)

Dos pintores pintorescos (1967)

Two house-painters go to art school. Also bad guys try to kill them. ...

El matrimonio es como el demonio (1967)

The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes ...

S.O.S. Bikini Conspiracy (1967)

Secret Organizational Service (S.O.S.) is an international crime syndicate, quite successful with their feminine agents operating under the guise of a fashion model agency led by Lady Bristol and her associate Luigi. The International Service is the govern ...

A Colt, Five Dollars and Carrion (1967)

In Waco, Texas, the Mexican population is racially persecuted, instigated by gangs of unscrupulous adventurers. Ringo, a young Mexican boxer, takes up the cause of the persecuted, and gathers a group of volunteers, to engage in a merciless battle against t ...

Juan Pistolas (1966)

Picaresque adventures of two small-time crooks, ligging around on the periphery of the Mexican revolution. ...

La cómplice (1966)

A woman becomes an unwitting accessory to a company robbery. Out of love, she finds herself involved in a surprising plot trying to get out of the event unscathed. ...

Adorada enemiga (1965)

Young Patricia returns from studying in Europe and finds her mother has married to a man named Jaime. The young woman falls in love with him, who has also seduced a servant who still loves him. ...

El detective genial (1965)

Comedy of situations. With "a wonderful cast with outstanding Colombian artists. Exceptionally comical. ...

Fuego en la sangre (1965)

In a rural setting, the chronicle of a woman with too many love demands. ...

Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers (1965)

Masked hero El enmascarado de oro faces a criminal that turns invisible. ...

Yo, el gobernador (1965)

Elena's Daughters (1964)

A love story, of boyfriends and songs¸ of three sisters who travel to Colombia with their jealous father Hipólito to receive the inheritance of their late aunt Encajosa¸ who made it a condition that the three girls must be married to receive it. ...

El raspado (1964)

A naive but humane student leaves his town with the ambition to become a doctor, promising to return to help his people, who see him as a local hero. ...

Un ángel de mal genio (1964)

The Shameless Ones. (1962)

Rico, a laborer, illicitly boards a train bound for the city, seeking a departure from his mundane existence. This marks the inception of an adventure wherein our protagonist becomes entwined with a prostitute who initiates him into the realm of smuggling. ...

Tom Thumb (1958)

A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre. ...

Birds of Prey (1987)

Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story of a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her cameraman Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds thirty year ...

Vuelve el ojo de vidrio (1970)

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution. ...

The Gangster (1965)

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family. ...

La edad de piedra (1964)

Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures. ...

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 ...

María Pistolas (1963)

Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends. ...

Fuerte, audaz y valiente (1963)

Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats. ...

¡En peligro de muerte! (1962)

Viruta and Capulina are looking for gold in the Old West, but are captured by some indians, however, thanks to a metal detector and the flash of a camera, you will earn their respect. Then save to the young Lupita and Lolita an assault and lead the people. ...

Lástima de ropa (1962)

Millionaire goes slumming, meets a girl... ...

Spiritism (1962)

Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw. ...

Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert) (1962)

An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of American football and moral rectitude. You ain't gonna sire no babies out of wedlock on Father Lambert's watch, no siree! ...

The Shameless Ones. (1962)

Rico, a laborer, illicitly boards a train bound for the city, seeking a departure from his mundane existence. This marks the inception of an adventure wherein our protagonist becomes entwined with a prostitute who initiates him into the realm of smuggling. ...

Mañana serán hombres (1961)

Film-director assigned to making a teenaged-hoodlums crime drama, agonizes over the positive social message he wants his film to convey. Meanwhile, his young actors all have their own melodramas running... ...

A Clean Shot (1960)

A gunslinger avenges his father's murder. ...

La ley del más rápido (1959)

Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma. ...

El puma (1959)

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series. ...

Un mundo nuevo (1957)

This largely forgotten film, often referred to by its English title, A New World, tells the story of an Insurance Adjuster who is sent out to investigate a claim for sunken cargo prior to paying for the loss. He ends up uncovering more than he anticipated, ...

El enmascarado de plata (1954)

This cult-classic was Director Rene Cardona's attempt to capitalize on the popularity of professional wrestling and on of its biggest stars of the 1950's, known as "El Santo". However it is not about wrestling. ...

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. ...