The best Roberto Cañedo’s drama movies

Roberto Cañedo

Roberto Cañedo

30/03/1918- 16/06/1998
Today we present the best Roberto Cañedo’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 Roberto Cañedo’s movies.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8.2/10
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Pedro Paramo

Pedro Paramo
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 26/01/1967
  • Character: Toribio Aldrete
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Maclovia

Maclovia
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/09/1948
  • Character: Teniente Ocampo
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

Fever Mounts at El Pao
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/12/1959
  • Character: Le colonel Olivares
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.

María Isabel

María Isabel
7.2/10
A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity

Doña Bárbara

Doña Bárbara
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 16/09/1943
  • Character: Extra (uncredited)
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Bugambilia

Bugambilia
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/11/1945
  • Character: Alberto
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.

Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth
5.8/10
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

Salon Mexico

Salon Mexico
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/02/1949
  • Character: Roberto
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.

Village Girl

Village Girl
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/07/1949
  • Character: Aurelio Rodríguez
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.

One Day of Life

One Day of Life
8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 23/11/1950
  • Character: Colonel Lucio Reyes
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.

La malquerida

La malquerida
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/09/1949
  • Character: Faustino
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.

La mentira

La mentira
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/03/1970
  • Character: Teodoro Castelo Blanco
A man, torn inside by two passions, falls for the woman against whom he sought revenge, believing her to be responsible for the death of his brother.

El conde de Montecristo

El conde de Montecristo
6.8/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 29/04/1942
  • Character: Extra (uncredited)
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.

Crónica roja

Crónica roja
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/12/1979
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.

The Spirit's Canyon

The Spirit's Canyon
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/02/1943
  • Character: (uncredited)
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.

Lola the Truck Driver

Lola the Truck Driver
4.8/10
Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a powerful cartel, with protections at high police levels. Knowing the local officials will not serve out justice, she takes matters into her own hands. Armed with a machine gun, she'll attempt to get revenge by her own hands - but the enemy has more firepower than her.

El mil usos

El mil usos
7.4/10
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.

Reportaje

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

Casos de alarma

Casos de alarma
6.6/10
Stranger with a dark past infects a small-town girl with HIV, and the contagion spreads out from there. Public health officials get involved...

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