Movies: Luis G. Barreiro

Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated....

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a sc...

With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a bo...

At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Many years later, Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich and decides to sear...

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons....

An American soldier (Keaton) during World War II escapes from an airplane crash over the Pacific Ocean. He arrives on a beach believing he has landed in Japan, but he is actually in Mexico. He wanders into a fishing village and is arrested under the ...

Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast....

In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the former, he is a supporter of Huerta. For the latter, he is a Zapata supporter. Depending on the political...

Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for....

A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit....

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas....

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. Th...

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A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer....

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him....

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy....

The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota....

A 1941 film....

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes....

Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accep...