The best Mapy Cortés’s movies
Today we present the best Mapy Cortés’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 Mapy Cortés’s movies.
El gendarme desconocido
7.5/10
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.
Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.
Guard! Alert!
5.3/10
The slight plot has a girl, left pregnant by a seducer, setting off to look for him when the child is born (the latter eventually proves a most amiable kid); she is befriended by a couple of ex-soldiers, even taking her in when they open a drugstore. Rubio falls for her and, though she reciprocates his affection, still hopes to rejoin her former lover.
¡Ay, qué tiempos señor don Simón!
7.8/10
Operetta-style musical comedy with can-can girls and soldiers.
Las tandas del principal
7.4/10
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. For awhile. And then...
El conde de Montecristo
6.8/10
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Dormitorio para señoritas
4.9/10
Young lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.
Internado para señoritas
6/10
1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Seven Days' Leave
5.9/10
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen. Not wanting to disrupt his planned marriage to Mapy, Johnny must figure out how to concoct a temporary marriage-of-convenience with the descendant -- who turns out to be the beautiful Terry Havelock-Allen.
Lamento borincano
The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.
La corte de faraón
6.1/10
Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.
Cinco minutos de amor
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
La hija del regimiento
6/10
In Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate and resorts to the reigning prince.
La pícara Susana
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
El globo de Cantolla
6.2/10
Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
Al marido hay que seguirlo
Newlywed, newly-graduated doctor is hired by an employer who only accepts unmarried people as employees. His wife finds a pretext to sneak onto the premises to be with her husband a-a-a-and...
Recién casados... no molestar
4.9/10
Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
El amor las vuelve locas
5.5/10
Uni professor is voted "Hunkiest teacher of the year." Madcap complications.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
7/10
Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
Las 5 noches de Adán
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
