Acting
Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...
Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
A wrestler is arrested on suspicion of assault, but his son manages to capture the real culprits.
The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
Hurricane Ramirez is the new manager of the arena and champion of the ring. He must battle with The Prince, a ruthless criminal who will try to end with his life.
Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
