Alfonso Patiño Gómez
Directing
Biography
Alfonso Patiño Gómez (August 18, 1910 – 1977) was a Mexican journalist, producer, director, and screenwriter. He began his career in journalism, co-founding the newspaper La Prensa in 1928 and later establishing the film magazine Cine Gráfico in 1933. Transitioning to filmmaking, Patiño Gómez directed several films, including Los dos pilletes (1942) and Canta y no llores... (1949), which starred ranchera singer Irma Vila. His work often explored social themes and contributed to the development of Mexican cinema during the mid-20th century.
Known For
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
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.
Forgotten Faces
An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.
Música en la noche
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
Miracle Roses
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Albur de amor
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¡Viva México!
Music teacher gets all tangled up with a nightclub singer, after seeing his students ogling her advertisements.
Viajera
Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Las canciones unidas
Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.
Pito Pérez se va de bracero
A boxer wins a championship but he is injured and forced to retire. After that he falls in love with a blind girl.
El amor no es ciego
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Cuando baja la marea
Young woman has to choose between three potential husbands, so she leaves town for awhile to sing for a living and sort out her feelings.
Canta Y No Llores
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Cinco minutos de amor
Political satire about fixed elections in a small town.
¡Ay, Palillo, no te rajes!
Suspicious husband deals with wife's supposed infidelity by making his toddler son disappear into the city's slums, where he grows to boyhood as a thief's apprentice.
Los dos pilletes
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Carne de cabaret
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Adiós, Mariquita linda
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El médico de las locas
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