Movies: Carlos Martínez Baena

  • 1955
    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)

    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

    7.21955HD

    A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan......

    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
  • 1951
    El Siete Machos

    El Siete Machos (1951)

    El Siete Machos

    8.01951HD

    Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood ...

    El Siete Machos
  • 1961
    El analfabeto

    El analfabeto (1961)

    El analfabeto

    7.61961HD

    Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can re...

    El analfabeto
  • 1950
    El Portero

    El Portero (1950)

    El Portero

    7.51950HD

    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 (Silv...

    El Portero
  • 1953
    El

    El (1953)

    El

    7.61953HD

    Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath....

    El
  • 1947
    The Kneeling Goddess

    The Kneeling Goddess (1947)

    The Kneeling Goddess

    6.61947HD

    Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a statue – the titular Kneeling Goddess – which, unbeknownst to him, features Raquel as the model. Antoni...

    The Kneeling Goddess
  • 1948
    El Supersabio

    El Supersabio (1948)

    El Supersabio

    7.51948HD

    Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the r...

    El Supersabio
  • 1954
    The River and Death

    The River and Death (1954)

    The River and Death

    6.21954HD

    A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by p...

    The River and Death
  • 1969
    Perverse Doll

    Perverse Doll (1969)

    Perverse Doll

    6.51969HD

    A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets....

    Perverse Doll
  • 1954
    Camelia

    Camelia (1954)

    Camelia

    51954HD

    A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan....

    Camelia
  • 1951
    Monte de piedad

    Monte de piedad (1951)

    Monte de piedad

    51951HD

    Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop....

    Monte de piedad
  • 1957
    La mujer que no tuvo infancia

    La mujer que no tuvo infancia (1957)

    La mujer que no tuvo infancia

    5.51957HD

    Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her....

    La mujer que no tuvo infancia
  • 1944
    Woman Without a Soul

    Woman Without a Soul (1944)

    Woman Without a Soul

    5.51944HD

    Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast....

    Woman Without a Soul
  • 1937
    The Siege of Huesca

    The Siege of Huesca (1937)

    The Siege of Huesca

    51937HD

    A documentary, with some fictionalized images, about the operations and combat that took place near Huesca in the first months of 1937 during the Spanish Civil War....

    The Siege of Huesca
  • 1949
    The Bewitched House

    The Bewitched House (1949)

    The Bewitched House

    5.51949HD

    Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer....

    The Bewitched House
  • 1948
    Nocturno de amor

    Nocturno de amor (1948)

    Nocturno de amor

    5.61948HD

    Venice Film Festival 1948...

    Nocturno de amor
  • 1954
    The Intruder

    The Intruder (1954)

    The Intruder

    51954HD

    Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decide...

    The Intruder
  • 1949
    Lola Casanova

    Lola Casanova (1949)

    Lola Casanova

    61949HD

    Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement....

    Lola Casanova
  • 1953
    Si, Mi vida

    Si, Mi vida (1953)

    Si, Mi vida

    5.31953HD

    Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy....

    Si, Mi vida
  • 1956
    La sombra vengadora

    La sombra vengadora (1956)

    La sombra vengadora

    5.81956HD

    An evil mastermind, known as La mano negra, attempts to steal a formula that creates synthetic drugs but a masked avenger known as La sombra will do anything to stop him....

    La sombra vengadora