The best Luis Aceves Castañeda’s movies

Luis Aceves Castañeda

Luis Aceves Castañeda

02/09/1913- 16/09/1973
Today we present the best Luis Aceves Castañeda’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 Luis Aceves Castañeda’s movies.
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Simon of the Desert

Simon of the Desert
7.8/10
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Nazarin

Nazarin
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/06/1959
  • Character: Parricide
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.

Macario

Macario
8.3/10
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

Mexican Bus Ride

Mexican Bus Ride
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/06/1952
  • Character: Silvestre
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.

Death in the Garden

Death in the Garden
6.7/10
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
3.9/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 11/12/1957
  • Character: Dr. Krupp
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.

La malquerida

La malquerida
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/09/1949
  • Character: Barmann
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.

Salon Mexico

Salon Mexico
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/02/1949
  • Character: Complice de Paco (uncredited)
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz doesn't know about her sister's job. Troubles begin when Mercedes wins a danzon contest with Paco (Acosta), her pimp. Paco refuses to share the prize with Mercedes, so she steals the money when he's sleeping.

The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy

The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
2.4/10
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.

Padre nuestro

Padre nuestro
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 28/10/1953
  • Character: El maestro
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Reportaje

Reportaje
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/11/1953
  • Character: Aurelio
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve. .

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.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

Fever Mounts at El Pao
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/12/1959
  • Character: López - le secrétaire de Gual
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.

The Witch

The Witch
6.5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 17/01/1954
  • Character: Paulesco
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.

A Place Close to Heaven

A Place Close to Heaven
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/08/1952
  • Character: Martín Araujo
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/06/1954
  • Character: Ricardo
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.

The Aztec Mummy

The Aztec Mummy
4.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 13/11/1957
  • Character: Dr. Krupp
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Almada discovers that his fiancée, Flor, is the reincarnation of an Aztec maiden who was put to death for loving an Aztec warrior, her body placed at the entrance to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan where the treasures of the Aztecs were hidden, and her lover mummified but cursed to remain alive and guard the treasure. With her recovered memories, Flor is able to lead Almada, his wimpish assistant Pincate, and her father to the now-skeletal remains of the maiden. Attached to them is a golden breastplate with a map detailing the route to the treasure. But to their horror, the party is intercepted by the mummified warrior, Popoca, and flee with the breastplate back to Mexico city. Popoca follows. In the meantime, Prof. Krup, an unscrupulous colleague of Almada's, recruits a gang of thugs, whom he leads from behind a mask and known only as "The Bat"...

A Woman's Pride

A Woman's Pride
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/08/1956
  • Character: Sr. Cagliostro
Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines. His presence in the community will initiate a lot of changes. Ada Montalvo is a beautiful young woman with a great heart, whose strong personality wakes up the admiration of a good looking millionaire Ramón. She is the woman he has always dreamed of. However, for Ada he is nothing more than an intruder who has arrived to ruin the calm life of Taxco with his money, and she does not hide the contempt she feels towards him, even though the circumstances force her to marry him...

Victims of Sin

Victims of Sin
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/02/1951
  • Character: Luis (uncredited)
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Pecado

Pecado
4.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 01/03/1951
  • Character: Hombre en cantina (as Luis Aceves C.)

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