Known for Acting
Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.
Bank janitor has comical misadventures and ends up training in a Police Academy.
Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.
After killing an opponent in a freak wrestling accident, El Enmascarado Negro has a midlife crisis and considers retiring from show business.
Calpuina is a night-watchman in a wharehouse, a perfect job for him. When some thieves break in and steal some crates, El Santo is after them because they are using the wharehouse for diamond smuggling. Capulina hinders their capture. Then he decides that he will put on a wrestler's mask and help El Santo to caputre the crooks.
Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is likely to catch up with him.
When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. But when her mission leaves the scientist horrifically scarred, he seeks revenge.
Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.
A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
Identical cousins with mismatched Odd Couple personalities.
A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island full of stock footage monsters fresh from One Million BC. Occasionally we get an original papier mache monster peaking out from behind an alcove, but for the most part this is typical Mexican filmmaking for the period. With Armond Silvestre and Alma Delia Fuentes.
