Carlos Martínez Baena Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet...

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...

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...

Venice Film Festival 1948

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

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.

The tragic romance between a woman with a dubious past and a young thief who reforms his life for love.

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

Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.

Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal...

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

A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black mother since birth—marries a pop...

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

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.