The best Roberto Cañedo’s 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.

¡A volar, joven!

¡A volar, joven!
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1947
  • Character: Soldado
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

El gendarme desconocido

El gendarme desconocido
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/10/1941
  • Character: Extra (uncredited)
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.

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.

El arracadas

El arracadas
6.1/10
  • Release: 23/03/1978
Mariano Landeros is sworn by his mother to look for the murderer of his father at all costs, the proof would bring that Doroteo Carrillo earring snatched his mother when it happened the asesinato.Mariano part unstoppably to find the murderer finding in the way love, hate and violence.

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

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.

Gran Hotel

Gran Hotel
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/08/1944
  • Character: Cliente restaurante (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.

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.

The Batwoman

The Batwoman
4.7/10
A whacked out scientist is capturing wrestlers (because they are "perfect") and using their spinal fluid to create a Gill Man. Two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. She steals aboard the baddies boat , uncovers his mad plan, but she is discovered and during a scuffle our hero tosses acid in the scientists face. This doesn't sit too well with the dude and he seeks revenge. His plan, capture her and turn her into a Gill Woman!

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.

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.

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…

Leader's Shadow

Leader's Shadow
7.8/10
The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows his boss, El Caudillo has chosen another candidate. Several political moves are done between the parties, leading to a thunderous climax.

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. .

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.

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 with the Devil

One Day with the Devil
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1945
  • Character: Extra
Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.

Doctor of Doom

Doctor of Doom
4.9/10
A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.

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