The best Luis Manuel Pelayo’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Luis Manuel Pelayo’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Luis Manuel Pelayo.
El Analfabeto
7.1/10
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.
Sube y Baja
7/10
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.
Your Excellency
7.1/10
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.
Blanca Nieves y... sus 7 amantes
5/10
An undercover policewoman tracks seven escaped convicts to the deserted island where they've set up a camp.
El Extra
6.9/10
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.
Escuela de rateros
7.2/10
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
El ojo de vidrio
6.2/10
Un Quijote sin mancha
6.7/10
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
Puss n' Boots
6/10
Mexican adaptation of the famed fairy tale.
El Supersabio
7/10
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
Click, fotógrafo de modelos
7.4/10
Mauricio is a photographer that works for a very important advertisement company. It all starts with Mauricio's work being criticized by the company, to which Mauricio jumps into the discussion and explains to the company that his idea was misinterpreted, and quits. Mauricio bent on revenge, and promises to be enemy number one of his former employers, sets off and works so hard photographing so many models, that he develops a click that when he blinks his eyes, he can see anybody in their underwear. A lot of Mauricio charm, famous quotes and pranks in this movie, very entertaining and beautiful women for that time. Very recommendable.
Burdel
7.1/10
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
6.5/10
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
El albañil
6.2/10
Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
Nos reimos de la migra (Destrampados y mojados)
Sexo contra sexo
6.3/10
The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband had another woman with whom he had a love relationship. However, the two women have been deceived since they are both married by the civilian to the same man. This they discover during the reading of the will, when they listen to a tape recorded by the now deceased José Luis, in which he explains the reasons for his infedility, simply due to his condition as a womanizing male.
La Jorobada
6.7/10
Little girl with very visible spinal injury is given second-class treatment by her able-bodied family. Years pass...
Semana santa en Acapulco
6.2/10
Two middle-aged couples take a Murphy's Law vacation in Acapulco.
Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
5.6/10
Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
Dios no lo quiera
6.7/10
