Ricardo Adalid

Chanoc en el Circo Union (1979)

The comic book hero foils animal smugglers in the circus. ...

Cananea (1978)

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour. ...

El bueno para nada (1973)

Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes. ...

Besos, Besos... y Más Besos (1973)

Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes. ...

El vals sin fin (1972)

El metiche (1972)

Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso. ...

Slaughter (1972)

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being blackmailed by the feds, is forced to head to South America to finish the mobsters off. ...

Jesús, el niño Dios (1971)

El juicio de los hijos (1971)

Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her. ...

Tres amigos (1970)

Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity. ...

Los siete proscritos (1969)

A motley crew of seven outlaws are pressed into service to defend a town from marauding Apaches, then two of them are appointed co-Sheriffs. Also some stuff about hunting for a lost treasure. ...

Mi padrino (1969)

Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career. ...

The Big Cube (1969)

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance. ...

Un nuevo modo de amar (1968)

A phony psychic convinces a young widow that her nest husband will die soon after the wedding... so she tells her fiancé to take a number, and marries a rando to sidestep that problem. ...

Blue Demon: Destructor of Spies (1968)

Blue Demon returns in one of his best adventures like Agent Zero, who this time is facing a criminal organization that attempts to poison the world with a deadly gas (whose formula is unknown). This time, Zero (Blue Demon) is the only one qualified to inve ...

Ven a cantar conmigo (1967)

Tween girl in an orphanage does little-ray-of-sunshine stuff all over the place and puts particular energy into creating a romance between her facility's twentyish nurse and some rando guy from USA that they see in the market. ...

Your Excellency (1967)

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état i ...

La vida de Pedro Infante (1966)

Standard biopic... ...

Simon of the Desert (1965)

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him. ...

Así amaron nuestros padres (1964)

Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio. ...

Las dos galleras (1964)

Two tough Mexican ladies avenge their father when he is set-up and shot during a cockfight. ...

De color moreno (1963)

Santo vs. the Vampire Women (1962)

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil. ...

Vámonos para la feria (1961)

Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight. ...

The Phantom of the Operetta (1960)

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume. ...

Impaciencia del corazón (1960)

Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' cr ...

La última lucha (1959)

Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena. ...

Sonatas (1959)

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, ...

A sablazo limpio (1958)

Two clownish incompetents get mixed up in power struggles between state officials. ...

The Sun Also Rises (1957)

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain. ...

Locos Peligrosos (1957)

A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, t ...

La adúltera (1956)

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife. ...

Los tres amores de Lola (1956)

Flamenco artist in Mexico draws attention from three suitors. ...

Seven Cities of Gold (1955)

In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions. ...

Anxiety (1953)

Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to t ...

A Woman Without Love (1952)

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend ...

The Straying Rooster (1952)

A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate. ...

Si yo fuera diputado (1952)

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the ot ...

María Cristina (1951)

Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing. ...

Canasta Uruguaya (1951)

Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune. ...

Hell Road (1951)

When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way. ...

Lost Love (1951)

Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man. ...

La reina del mambo (1951)

Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city. ...

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. ...

La malcasada (1950)

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 ...

Hipócrita..! (1949)

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer. ...

Perez Family (1949)

Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him ...

Out on the Big Ranch (1949)

Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical. ...

Yolanda (1943)

About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportati ...

Jesus of Nazareth (1942)

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion. ...

Mil estudiantes y una muchacha (1942)

The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor's daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family. ...

When the Children are Gone (1941)

Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The on ...

Ni sangre ni arena (1941)

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a ...

El Cementerio De Las Aguilas (1938)

When the U.S. invasion and the landing of troops in 1847 begins, the former cadet Miguel de la Peña (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Agustin Melgar (Jose Macip) decide to return to the military college and fight heroically in the defense of the Mexican army ...