The best Cantinflas’s movies

Cantinflas

Cantinflas

12/08/1911- 20/04/1993
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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Cantinflas Ruletero

Cantinflas Ruletero
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1940
Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking them to their destination.

El Padrecito

El Padrecito
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/09/1964
  • Character: Padre Sebastián
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.

El profe

El profe
6.8/10
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

Pepe

Pepe
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/12/1960
  • Character: Pepe
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.

El Analfabeto

El Analfabeto
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/09/1961
  • Character: Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
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 barrendero

El barrendero
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/05/1982
  • Character: Napoleon
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.

Sube y Baja

Sube y Baja
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1959
  • Character: Cantinflas
It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.

¡A volar, joven!

¡A volar, joven!
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1947
  • Character: Cantinflas
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

El Siete Machos

El Siete Machos
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 05/02/1951
  • Character: Margarito / 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 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.

Cantinflas boxeador

Cantinflas boxeador
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/07/1940
We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.

Your Excellency

Your Excellency
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/05/1967
  • Character: Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

El patrullero 777

El patrullero 777
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/04/1978
  • Character: Diógenes Bravo
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.

El gendarme desconocido

El gendarme desconocido
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/10/1941
  • Character: Agente 777
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 scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.

El Extra

El Extra
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/10/1962
  • Character: Rogaciano
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

El señor doctor

El señor doctor
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/10/1965
  • Character: Salvador Medina / Chava
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.

Por mis pistolas

Por mis pistolas
6.6/10
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.

Cantinflas y su prima

Cantinflas y su prima
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/07/1940
Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.

Soy un prófugo

Soy un prófugo
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/03/1946
  • Character: Cantinflas
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita

Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/10/1939
He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" (Covered Eye).

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