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Cantinflas Collection

Cantinflas - The Black and white movies

40 movies 1937 – 1982 63h total

Movies in this collection

No te engañes corazón
No te engañes corazón

No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen.

¡Así es mi tierra!
¡Así es mi tierra!

¡Así es mi tierra!

1937 1h 22m Dir. Arkady Boytler

With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.

Águila o sol
Águila o sol

Águila o sol

1938 1h 18m Dir. Arkady Boytler

When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street. They sell lottery and newspapers. When older, they became artists.

Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita
Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita

He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" (Covered Eye).

El signo de la muerte
El signo de la muerte

El signo de la muerte

1939 1h 33m Dir. Chano Urueta

Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.

Cantinflas ruletero
Cantinflas ruletero

Cantinflas ruletero

1940 17m Dir. Fernando A. Rivero

Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking them to their destination.

Cantinflas boxeador
Cantinflas boxeador

Cantinflas boxeador

1940 16m Dir. Fernando A. Rivero

We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.

Cantinflas y su prima
Cantinflas y su prima

Cantinflas y su prima

1940 17m Dir. Carlos Toussaint

Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.

Ahi está el detalle
Ahi está el detalle

Ahi está el detalle

1940 1h 52m Dir. Juan Bustillo Oro

La confusión entre el perro "Bobby" y un gángster del mismo nombre desencadena una serie de enredos entre un celoso marido, su nerviosa esposa, una pícara criada, una esposa abandonada con ocho hijos y el singular Cantinflas.

Ni sangre, ni arena
Ni sangre, ni arena

Ni sangre, ni arena

1941 1h 44m Dir. Alejandro Galindo

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter.

El gendarme desconocido
El gendarme desconocido

El gendarme desconocido

1941 1h 48m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

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.

Carnaval en el trópico
Carnaval en el trópico

Carnaval en el trópico

1942 1h 14m Dir. Carlos Villatoro

Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.

Los tres mosqueteros
Los tres mosqueteros

Los tres mosqueteros

1942 2h 16m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.

El circo
El circo

El circo

1943 1h 30m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.

Romeo y Julieta
Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta

1943 1h 40m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles.

Gran Hotel
Gran Hotel

Gran Hotel

1944 1h 46m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

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.

Un día con el diablo
Un día con el diablo

Un día con el diablo

1945 1h 40m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.

Soy un prófugo
Soy un prófugo

Soy un prófugo

1946 1h 35m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

¡A volar joven!
¡A volar joven!

¡A volar joven!

1947 1h 53m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

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.

El supersabio
El supersabio

El supersabio

1948 1h 43m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

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 roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof.

El mago
El mago

El mago

1949 1h 40m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

El portero
El portero

El portero

1950 1h 53m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

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.

El siete machos
El siete machos

El siete machos

1951 1h 48m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

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 that steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

Si yo fuera diputado
Si yo fuera diputado

Si yo fuera diputado

1952 1h 35m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards.

El bombero atómico
El bombero atómico

El bombero atómico

1952 1h 35m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

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 señor fotógrafo
El señor fotógrafo

El señor fotógrafo

1953 1h 40m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Caballero a la medida
Caballero a la medida

Caballero a la medida

1954 1h 40m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people.

Abajo el telón
Abajo el telón

Abajo el telón

1955 1h 43m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.

El bolero de Raquel
El bolero de Raquel

El bolero de Raquel

1957 1h 41m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.

Ama a tu prójimo
Ama a tu prójimo

Ama a tu prójimo

1958 1h 45m Dir. Tulio Demicheli

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses.

Sube y baja
Sube y baja

Sube y baja

1959 1h 48m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.

Pepe
Pepe

Pepe

1960 3h Dir. George Sidney

Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood.

El extra
El extra

El extra

1962 1h 50m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

Entrega inmediata
Entrega inmediata

Entrega inmediata

1963 1h 50m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.

Su excelencia
Su excelencia

Su excelencia

1967 2h 14m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador.

El profe
El profe

El profe

1971 1h 57m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave.

El ministro y yo
El ministro y yo

El ministro y yo

1976 1h 49m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title.

El patrullero 777
El patrullero 777

El patrullero 777

1978 2h Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.

El barrendero
El barrendero

El barrendero

1982 1h 53m Dir. Miguel M. Delgado

A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.