Lidia Franco
Acting
Known For

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.
Macario

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
El Mago

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín

Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him.
Canaima

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
The Other

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
El bombero atómico

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.
We the Poor

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.
El bolero de Raquel

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
El analfabeto

Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
Pretty sky!

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Dicen que soy mujeriego

Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Tailored gentleman

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
The Seminarian

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Vuelven los García

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?
In the Palm of Your Hand

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcías

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
Locura pasional

A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
Sol en llamas

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
The Three Perfect Married

A man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will.