The best María Gentil Arcos’s movies

María Gentil Arcos

María Gentil Arcos

12/04/1905- 18/07/1965
Today we present the best María Gentil Arcos’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 María Gentil Arcos’s movies.
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Él

Él
7.9/10
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits. Nevertheless, Gloria meets with scepticism as she expresses her worries to their acquaintances.

We the Poor

We the Poor
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/03/1948
  • Character: La Paralítica
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.

Susana: The Devil & the Flesh

Susana: The Devil & the Flesh
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/04/1951
  • Character: Felisa
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.

El Mago

El Mago
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/05/1949
  • Character: Clienta de Krishnar (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

El Bombero Atómico

El Bombero Atómico
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/09/1952
  • Character: Doña Cleofas (uncredited)
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.

El Portero

El Portero
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/09/1950
  • Character: Vecina chismosa (uncredited)
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

Un divorcio

Un divorcio
5.7/10
  • Release: 12/08/1953
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..

Frontera norte

Frontera norte
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/10/1953
  • Character: Madre Lolita
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

Doña Perfecta

Doña Perfecta
7.3/10
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Cabellera blanca

Cabellera blanca
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/05/1951
  • Character: Lucía
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.

Aventurera

Aventurera
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/10/1950
  • Character: Petra, Rosaura's maid
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.

A Family Like Many Others

A Family Like Many Others
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/03/1949
  • Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

Ahora soy rico

Ahora soy rico
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/02/1952
  • Character: Trabajadora (uncredited)
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.

A Place Close to Heaven

A Place Close to Heaven
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/08/1952
  • Character: Empleada despedida (uncredited)
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.

Comisario en turno

Comisario en turno
7.3/10
  • Release: 11/02/1949
Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.

Otra primavera

Otra primavera
6.4/10
  • Release: 27/04/1950
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?

Huellas del pasado

Huellas del pasado
  • Release: 01/11/1950
Authoritarian husband dumps his wife and keeps their son. Twenty years later...

Monte de piedad

Monte de piedad
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1951
  • Character: Doña Lupita, madre de María
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.

Fierecilla

Fierecilla
5.9/10
  • Release: 03/05/1951
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...

Por querer a una mujer

Por querer a una mujer
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/09/1951
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.

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