Acting
María Gentil Arcos
Born April 12, 1905 · València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Died July 18, 1965 · aged 60
María Gentil Arcos was an actress, known for Demonio y carne (1951), Campeón sin corona (1946) and Un divorcio (1953). She died on July 18, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Known For
El gran espectáculo · 1958El gran espectáculo
★ 6.71958
MovieComedyMusic
Susana · 1951Susana
★ 6.81951
MovieDrama
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.
Yo quiero ser mala · 1950Yo quiero ser mala
★ 6.41950
MovieRomanceComedy
In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) · 1943El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
★ 6.21943
MovieComedyDrama
After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
Rosenda · 1948Rosenda
★ 6.61948
MovieDramaRomance
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Fierecilla · 1951Fierecilla
★ 4.31951
Movie
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
Slum · 1950Slum
★ 5.71950
Movie
Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
El bombero atómico · 1952El bombero atómico
★ 8.41952
MovieComedy
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.
Movies
El gran espectáculo · 1958El gran espectáculo
★ 6.71958
MovieComedyMusic
Susana · 1951Susana
★ 6.81951
MovieDrama
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.
Yo quiero ser mala · 1950Yo quiero ser mala
★ 6.41950
MovieRomanceComedy
In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) · 1943El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
★ 6.21943
MovieComedyDrama
After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
Rosenda · 1948Rosenda
★ 6.61948
MovieDramaRomance
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Fierecilla · 1951Fierecilla
★ 4.31951
Movie
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
Slum · 1950Slum
★ 5.71950
Movie
Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
El bombero atómico · 1952El bombero atómico
★ 8.41952
MovieComedy
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.
Cárcel de mujeres · 1951Cárcel de mujeres
★ 6.11951
MovieDramaCrime
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Guanajuato Road · 1955Guanajuato Road
★ 5.81955
Movie
The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.
Caminos de sangre · 1945Caminos de sangre
★ 6.01945
Movie
A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.
Ave de paso · 1948Ave de paso
★ 5.71948
Movie
Mexican movie
We the Poor · 1948We the Poor
★ 8.11948
MovieDrama
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.
Las dos huerfanitas · 1950Las dos huerfanitas
★ 6.31950
Movie
Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.
El gran premio · 1958El gran premio
★ 6.41958
MovieDrama
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
Él · 1953Él
★ 7.71953
MovieDramaThriller
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Chucho el Roto · 1954Chucho el Roto
★ 5.21954
Movie
Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.
Aventurera · 1950Aventurera
★ 7.61950
MovieDramaMusic
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Los Fernández de Peralvillo · 1954Los Fernández de Peralvillo
★ 6.61954
MovieDramaCrime
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
El Portero · 1950El Portero
★ 7.71950
MovieComedy
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 Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
Ultraje al amor · 1956Ultraje al amor
★ 6.71956
MovieDrama
Mexican feature film
Romance de fieras · 1954Romance de fieras
★ 6.81954
MovieCrimeDrama
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Nunca debieron amarse · 1951Nunca debieron amarse
★ 5.81951
Movie
Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.
San Francisco de Asís · 1944San Francisco de Asís
★ 6.21944
MovieDrama
Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.