The best Pedro Armendáriz Jr.’s comedy movies

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

06/04/1940- 26/12/2011
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The Mexican

The Mexican
6.1/10
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.

Knock on Wood

Knock on Wood
7.3/10
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Killing Cabos

Killing Cabos
7.4/10
Oscar Cabos, a multimillionaire tycoon, is being held for ransom--only his captors have nabbed the wrong man. Now, to get their money, they must find the real Cabos--which could get tricky since he's been counter-kidnapped by his future son-in-law and impersonated by his childhood friend (now his janitor), Nacho.

Herod's Law

Herod's Law
7.8/10
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.

Casa De Mi Padre

Casa De Mi Padre
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 15/03/2012
  • Character: Miguel Ernesto Alvarez
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.

A Wonderful World

A Wonderful World
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/03/2006
  • Character: Director del Periodico
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

Divina confusión

Divina confusión
4.6/10
The Greek Olimpian Gods engage in the human life experience to its full intensity, for which they choose Mexico City's trendy night club: "Olimpus Dancing Club". Once living in the mortal's world, the naughty Eros (with help of a gang of ill-behaved gods), is responsible for unleashing a forbidden passion that disrupts the lives of the members of two families of not-so-simple mortals.

Maine-Ocean Express

Maine-Ocean Express
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/04/1986
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

El Golfo

El Golfo
6.2/10
Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.

Christmas, Inc.

Christmas, Inc.
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/2008
  • Character: santa claus
With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.

The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 06/02/1994
  • Character: General Montano (as Pedro Armendariz)
This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutionaries.

Esmeralda Comes by Night

Esmeralda Comes by Night
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/09/1997
  • Character: Rossellini, tenor husband
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.

Like a Bride

Like a Bride
6.9/10
Two Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s

One Long Night

One Long Night
4.1/10
Richard Macedo, is a young Mexican-American businessman from Orange County whose life is changed over the course of one night through a series of off beat encounters with the denizens of Mexico City.

Los tres mosqueteros de Dios

Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
6.9/10
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.

The Flight of the Stork

The Flight of the Stork
6/10
An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?

Murder at El Meneo

Murder at El Meneo
4.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/10/2001
  • Character: Don Manuel
In this crime parody, two fumbling detectives try to solve a murder without getting murdered, seduced, or outwitted in the process.

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