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1940s Spanish-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 542 movies or TV shows/series

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The Three Caballeros(1944)

3.2/5 (with 304 votes)

For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.

Directed by Norm Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young - With Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Nestor Amaral, Almirante, Trío Calaveras, ...

El gendarme desconocido(1941)

1h 48min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 27 votes)

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.

The Three Huastecos(1948)

4.1/5 (with 42 votes)

This is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.

The Three Garcia(1947)

3.9/5 (with 30 votes)

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

We the Poor(1948)

2h 8min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 41 votes)

A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.

You’re Missing the Point(1940)

1h 52min | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 40 votes)

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

El Circo(1943)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 20 votes)

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.

Twilight(1945)

2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.

Soy un prófugo(1946)

1h 35min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 32 votes)

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.

Enamorada(1946)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 22 votes)

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.

You the Rich(1948)

2h 5min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 20 votes)

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

A Family Like Many Others(1949)

2h 10min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

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Las abandonadas(1945)

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.

Doña Bárbara(1943)

2h 18min | Drama, Western
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Gran Hotel(1944)

1h 46min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

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.

Botón de ancla(1948)

1h 40min | Drama

Marín, Galicia, Spain. Carlos, José Luis and Enrique, three good friends and final year students in the Naval Academy, argue due to love issues.

The Three Musketeers(1942)

2h 16min | Adventure, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

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.

La malquerida(1949)

1h 26min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

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.

Salon Mexico(1949)

1h 31min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

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.

The Other(1946)

1h 38min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

Maria Candelaria(1944)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.

One Day with the Devil(1945)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 25 votes)

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

Pobre mi madre querida(1948)

1h 32min | Drama, Music, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.

Directed by Homero Manzi, Ralph Pappier - With Hugo del Carril, Emma Gramatica, Aída Luz, Graciela Lecube, Horacio Priani, María Esther Buschiazzo, ...

Angelitos negros(1948)

1h 40min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 22 votes)

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life".

Maclovia(1948)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

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.

Viaje sin destino(1942)

1h 13min | Comedy, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

To save a travel agency in an endangered situation one of the employees has a brilliant idea, announcing a special travel with no defined destiny.

Another Dawn(1943)

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Dicen que soy mujeriego(1949)

1h 57min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.

Directed by Roberto Rodríguez - With Pedro Infante, Sara García, María Eugenia Llamas, Amalia Aguilar

Romeo y Julieta(1943)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

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. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.

El fabricante de estrellas(1943)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The owner of an artists agency meets a soccer player who sings, and sets out to make him a star.

Directed by Manuel Romero - With Pepe Arias, Tito Lusiardo, Alicia Barrié, Osvaldo Miranda, Juan José Porta, Aparicio Podestá, ...
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