The best Fernando Soto’s drama movies

Fernando Soto

Fernando Soto

15/04/1911- 11/05/1980
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Fernando Soto’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Fernando Soto.

The Three Huastecos

The Three Huastecos
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/08/1948
  • Character: Cuco
This is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.

You the Rich

You the Rich
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/12/1948
  • Character: Antonio Feliciano de la Rosa
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

Illusion Travels by Streetcar

Illusion Travels by Streetcar
7/10
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!

Pepe El Toro

Pepe El Toro
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/08/1953
  • Character: Antonio Feliciano de la Rosa
The simple life and the values ​​of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.

Daughter of Deceit

Daughter of Deceit
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/08/1951
  • Character: Angelito
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.

El mariachi canta

El mariachi canta
6.9/10
Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.

El Quelite

El Quelite
7.9/10
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds. He gets cleaned up, she falls for him, they get married, and guess what? He can't consummate the marriage. Why? Because the song "El Quelite" is playing in the background. His mother would sing that to him when giving him a bath. So now, he can't ge it up every time he hears it.

La venenosa

La venenosa
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.

La presidenta municipal

La presidenta municipal
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/09/1975
  • Character: Don Chepito Domínguez
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.

La venenosa

La venenosa
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/10/1958

Esposa o amante

Esposa o amante
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/06/1950

Soy charro de Rancho Grande

Soy charro de Rancho Grande
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/11/1947
  • Character: Olote

El rayo de Jalisco

El rayo de Jalisco
The new Sheriff is framed for a series of stagecoach robberies, but he succeeds in finding the real thieves.

El amor no es ciego

El amor no es ciego
5.3/10

La barca de oro

La barca de oro
7.3/10
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.

Alma de Acero

Alma de Acero
6.4/10
Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.

Azahares para tu boda

Azahares para tu boda
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/07/1950
  • Character: Rosendo (as Fernando Soto 'Mantequilla')
Sara Garcia plays the mother of a Mexican family from the early twentieth century, devoted and submissive. Supports her husband impeding wedding of his daughter's suitor political ideas, so she participates in singleness of that which will become the main drama of the story. It is also witnessed the leaving home by their children, who return only after his death.

El corrido del hijo desobediente

El corrido del hijo desobediente
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/06/1968
Father and son butt heads over a mutual girlfriend, mostly.

Tercio de quites

Tercio de quites
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1952
Spanish bullfighter and a Mexican one have a friendly rivalry spanning decades.

El barchante Neguib

El barchante Neguib
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/09/1946
  • Character: Piloncillo
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).

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