Miguel Ángel Ferriz Sr.
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1899-11-29
Locus Natus: Mexico
Et ut: Мигель Анхель Феррис старший, Мигель Анхель Феррис
Naná
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
release : 1944.06.02popularis : 0.704
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the...
release : 1959.12.05popularis : 1.787
¿Qué haremos con papá?
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he...
release : 1966.07.14popularis : 0.909
Wild Flower
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between...
release : 1943.04.24popularis : 3.447
The Shadow of the Tyrant
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...
release : 1960.08.22popularis : 3.658
Gendarme de punto
Don Timoteo Rodriguez is an old friendly but scared and outdated, whose office is the pedestal: According to his modest way of life, things are more...
release : 1951.06.08popularis : 0.737
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
A landowner indirect kills another because of false rumors. Time passes. The son of the dead want the offender to pay their share. It becomes...
release : 1945.03.09popularis : 2.145
The Spirit's Canyon
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father...
release : 1943.02.25popularis : 2.234
Especialista en chamacas
Young doctor Jaime attends his father's clinic where Diana, a singer, is carried by emergency. After operating it, Jaime falls in love Diana and...
release : 1965.12.09popularis : 0.773
The Man Without a Face
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
release : 1950.07.29popularis : 2.714
Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!
Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is...
release : 1953.09.24popularis : 1.119
The Intruder
Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal...
release : 1954.07.21popularis : 1.071
Basket of Mexican Tales
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally...
release : 1956.05.17popularis : 4.193
Amok
After being caught embezzling from his clinic to impress his high society lover and support his gambling habit, a doctor flees to a remote Indian...
release : 1944.12.22popularis : 0.828
The Underdogs
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of...
release : 1940.06.01popularis : 0.889
El charro Negro
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
release : 1940.07.18popularis : 1.148
El Jorobado
Historical drama/swashbuckler: Spain during the Inquisition.
release : 1943.05.05popularis : 0.818
Reportaje
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
release : 1953.11.13popularis : 2.338
Ángela Morante, ¿crimen o suicidio?
Reporter investigating an actress' death gains an overview of her whole biography.
release : 1981.10.01popularis : 0.742
El boxeador
Undefeated boxing champion for 15 years faces retirement. One final bout...
release : 1958.07.17popularis : 0.99
El charro y la dama
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
release : 1949.10.28popularis : 1.105
La perversa
Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.
release : 1954.02.04popularis : 1.698
The Night of the Mayans
A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
release : 1939.09.16popularis : 1.941
Cuando me vaya
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
release : 1954.06.04popularis : 0.813
The Macabre Footprint
(Sequel to El Rostro Infernal.) Count Brankovan, a vampire, returns from the dead to avenge himself himself on some humans who previously had been...
release : 1963.06.21popularis : 0.985
Pablo y Carolina
Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from...
release : 1957.04.27popularis : 5.806
La extraña pasajera
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted...
release : 1953.06.04popularis : 0.977
Ojos de juventud
A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets!
release : 1948.12.25popularis : 1.179
Red Rain
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
release : 1950.01.26popularis : 0.982
El tesoro de Chucho el Roto
A notorious bandit dies and adventurers try to track down his hidden loot.
release : 1960.05.12popularis : 0.752
El ciclón
Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.
release : 1959.10.02popularis : 0.994
¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes!
Wandering-cowboy-hero, 1960s style, tries to borrow some prestige from classic 1940s ranchera movies & music.
release : 1965.09.02popularis : 0.794
El pecador
College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters.
release : 1965.04.01popularis : 1.41
La abuelita
Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny...
release : 1942.05.09popularis : 0.761
Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French...
release : 1943.09.16popularis : 1.845
Lauro Puñales
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
release : 1969.03.12popularis : 1.941
Joselito vagabundo
Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene...
release : 1966.05.19popularis : 1.786
Retorno al quinto patio
After getting out of prison, Ramon Vallarta tries to put his life back together, establishing himself in a new career and reconciling himself with...
release : 1951.07.19popularis : 0.666
Lucio Vázquez
Blending historical fact and adventure fiction, Emiliano Zapata's (fictional) right-hand man takes leadership of his regiment after he's killed.
release : 1968.05.16popularis : 1.144
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
release : 1950.03.01popularis : 0.637
Tres hombres malos
Three soldiers desert the Revolution to put a plan into action to reclaim the estate that was usurped from one of them. Plan involves kidnapping the...
release : 1949.05.25popularis : 1.434
Viviré otra vez
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
release : 1940.04.26popularis : 0.967
El espectro de la novia
British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given...
release : 1943.09.02popularis : 1.348
The Incredible Face of Dr. B.
Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.
release : 1963.04.26popularis : 1.237
Devil Fugitives
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 0.836
The Martyr of Calvary
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
release : 1952.04.02popularis : 2.519
El valor de vivir
Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
release : 1954.02.02popularis : 0.407
El Siete Machos
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...
release : 1951.02.05popularis : 8.62
Estafa de amor
Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
release : 1955.06.29popularis : 2.016
Camelia
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form...
release : 1954.02.16popularis : 1.688
Rebellion of the Hanged
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself...
release : 1954.01.20popularis : 3.883
Infidelidad
A 1940 film directed by Boris Maicon.
release : 1940.06.19popularis : 2.401
Los olvidados de Dios
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
release : 1940.01.14popularis : 1.146
Creo en Dios
A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
release : 1941.04.09popularis : 1.773
The Third Word
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his...
release : 1956.07.03popularis : 3.672
La mujer X
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
release : 1955.04.06popularis : 0.703
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.
release : 1961.01.18popularis : 1.447
Los perversos a-go-go
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a...
release : 1967.01.11popularis : 1.508
Cadetes de la naval
Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
release : 1945.02.21popularis : 1.071
There's No Pain in Paradise
The story of a gay man's cathartic one-night immersion in Monterrey's sexual underworld after his lover dies of AIDS.
release : 1995.02.14popularis : 0.532
Regalo de reyes
Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.
release : 1942.03.05popularis : 0.765
Flor de fango
Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc.
release : 1942.01.16popularis : 0.49
Ley fuga
As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.
release : 1954.08.19popularis : 1.348
Mi madre es Culpable
"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
release : 1960.09.26popularis : 1.953
Rosalinda
Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local...
release : 1945.12.25popularis : 0.623
Los apuros de dos gallos
Two con-artists run roughshod over the local economy of a small town they visit... but then they fall in love with two young women related to the...
release : 1963.02.23popularis : 1.001
Todos son mis hijos!...
Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son...
release : 1951.03.23popularis : 0.374
Passion Island
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After...
release : 1942.08.06popularis : 1.231
El vestido de novia
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married...
release : 1959.06.18popularis : 0.812
The Sword of Granada
In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish...
release : 1954.01.24popularis : 0.906
Fair of the Virgin of La Paloma
Life goes quietly in a traditional neighborhood of Madrid. Two beautiful girls, Susana and Casta, trade workers in the area, accepting mature...
release : 1963.12.09popularis : 1.598
Streetwalker
In Mexico City, two sisters, Maria and Elena, fight over the love of pimp Rodolfo. Elena escapes her sad marriage to an old banker into Rodolfo's...
release : 1951.06.22popularis : 1.212
Story of a Great Love
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio....
release : 1942.09.20popularis : 1.079
X Murderer
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
release : 1955.03.18popularis : 0.559
Fruto prohibido
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
release : 1953.04.01popularis : 1.972
The Boy and the Fog
Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
release : 1953.12.24popularis : 5.334
The Brave One
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
release : 1956.10.26popularis : 5.898
Yo soy muy macho
To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in...
release : 1953.10.29popularis : 0.467