Manuel Dondé — Actor (19)
Mexican Bus Ride (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Subida al cielo
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Esteban Márquez / Lilia Prado
other title: Salita al cielo / Der Weg, der zum Himmel führt
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
El circo (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
El circo
director: Miguel M. Delgado actor: Cantinflas / Gloria Lynch
other title: Cantinflas no Circo / El Circo
1943 film by Miguel M. Delgado
The Other (1946) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La otra
director: Roberto Gavaldón actor: Dolores del Río / Agustín Irusta
other title: Vita rubata / Palast der Sünde
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
The Book of Stone (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
El libro de piedra
director: Carlos Enrique Taboada actor: Marga López / Joaquín Cordero
other title: El libro de piedra / El Libro de piedra
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
Black Wind (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Viento negro
director: Servando González actor: David Reynoso / José Elías Moreno
other title: Viento negro
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
The Crying Woman (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Llorona
director: Ramón Peón actor: Ramón Pereda / Virginia Zurí
other title: La Llorona
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
The River and Death (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
El río y la muerte
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Columba Domínguez / Miguel Torruco
other title: Il fiume e la morte / Le Fleuve de la mort
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 people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Rapine (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Rapiña
director: Carlos Enrique Taboada actor: Ignacio López Tarso / Germán Robles
other title: Rapiña
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident.
The Scapular (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
El escapulario
director: Servando González actor: Enrique Lizalde / Ofelia Guilmáin
other title: El escapulario
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Tonta, tonta, pero no tanto (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tonta, tonta, pero no tanto
director: Fernando Cortés actor: María Elena Velasco / Sergio Ramos
other title: Tonta tonta, pero no tanto / Tonta tonta pero no tanto
1972 film by Fernando Cortés
The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Las luchadoras contra la momia
director: René Cardona actor: Lorena Velázquez / Armando Silvestre
other title: Las luchadoras contra la momia / Rock 'N Roll Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi are tag-team Luchadoras, helping a scientist on a quest to discover an ancient Aztec treasure, but the fiendish Prince Fugiyata wants to get there first. Both are in for a surprise, as the treasure is guarded by Xochitl, the Aztec Mummy Sorcerer, who can turn into a bat at will.
Macario (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Macario
director: Roberto Gavaldón actor: Ignacio López Tarso / Pina Pellicer
other title: Morte in vacanza / Macário
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Alucarda (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas
director: Juan López Moctezuma actor: Tina Romero / Susana Kamini
other title: Alucarda - Tochter der Finsternis / Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
Enamorada (1946) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
Enamorada
director: 埃米利奥·费尔南德斯 actor: María Félix / Pedro Armendáriz
other title: 一见钟情
Armendáriz was terrific in this. I won't repeat the praises from prior reviews, I concur.
My only problem with this film is that it wasn't true to the revolution. In that sense, it was indeed a Fernandez film as neither was he true to the revolution. He gave a Cristero slant to the issues of Church/State and redistribution of wealth. Just take it as a love story set in the revolutionary period and try to ignore the political bias. Jeeze, you'd think he'd have shown more gratitude having been pardoned by Lázaro Cárdenas for his treason.
Pedro Armendáriz, María Felix and the town of Cholula were the great stars of this film. The exteriors were certainly shot in Cholula.
There were some snippets of revolutionary period music (La Adelita and El Tren) and an anachronistic performance of Malageña Salerosa when he had mariachi serenade María Felix. That song is so lovely, I didn't mind.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
director: John Huston actor: Humphrey Bogart / Walter Huston
other title: Il tesoro della Sierra Madre / Tre mand søger guld
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.
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ensayo de un crimen
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Ernesto Alonso / Miroslava
other title: Estasi di un delitto / Ensayo de un crimen
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...
Él (1953) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb
Él
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Arturo de Córdova / Delia Garcés
other title: Lui / Er
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.