The best Eduardo Alcaraz’s movies

Eduardo Alcaraz

Eduardo Alcaraz

13/04/1915- 18/04/1987
Today we present the best Eduardo Alcaraz’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Eduardo Alcaraz’s movies.
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School for Tramps

School for Tramps
8.1/10
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.

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.

El barrendero

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

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Gordo Azuara (uncredited)
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

El Bombero Atómico

El Bombero Atómico
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/09/1952
  • Character: Sargento Policía
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.

Zorro, The Gay Blade

Zorro, The Gay Blade
6.2/10
George Hamilton stars in a dueling dual role as twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after the dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and costume, a broken ankle prevents the masked avenger from fulfilling his heroic duties. When his flamboyantly fashion-conscious brother assumes the secret identity to continue an ongoing fight for justice, the results are nothing short of hilarious!

El señor fotógrafo

El señor fotógrafo
7.3/10
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Your Excellency

Your Excellency
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/05/1967
  • Character: Don Salustio Menchaca, embajador de 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.

Si yo fuera diputado

Si yo fuera diputado
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/01/1952
  • Character: Doctor
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'

The Brave One

The Brave One
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/10/1956
  • Character: Ticket seller
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.

Conserje en condominio

Conserje en condominio
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/04/1974
  • Character: Lic. Rufino
After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.

Un Quijote sin mancha

Un Quijote sin mancha
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/09/1969
  • Character: Licenciado en delegación
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.

The Black Widow

The Black Widow
7/10
In a small town in Mexico, Matea is an orphan who assists the priest, Father Feliciano in his parish. The village doctor tries to seduce her but fails and proceeds to defame her into believing that Matea maintains relations with the priest. The people believe him and demand to cure her; he refuses and locks himself away with Matea. During the lockdown they develop a passionate love, but fate arrives and the priest dies.. Matea becomes a kind of priestess to which known as the "Black Widow".

Ahora soy rico

Ahora soy rico
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/02/1952
  • Character: Dr. Velasco
A sequel to "Un rincón cerca del cielo". Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.

Rebellion of the Hanged

Rebellion of the Hanged
7.5/10
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 and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.

Ladrón de cadáveres

Ladrón de cadáveres
6.5/10
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

Pilotos de la muerte

Pilotos de la muerte
6.3/10
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

Abajo el Telón

Abajo el Telón
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1955
  • Character: Artista en teatro (uncredited)
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.

Escuela de rateros

Escuela de rateros
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/05/1958
  • Character: Toño
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

The Third Word

The Third Word
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/07/1956
  • Character: Administrador Roldán
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 doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.

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