Películas de Adalberto Martínez

Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but...

Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions...

Romanticized, glamored-up neorealism, life in a squatter's-rights shantytown.

An alcoholic grandfather is seriously ill. His doctor suggests that experiencing a bad scare could cure him. His grandson volunteers to help him.

Various murders are examined by a private investigator.

In the film "A fuego lento," Guadalupe Palma, a dancer and part-time prostitute, finds herself at the center of a suspenseful and enigmatic story,...

Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan,...

Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who...

Lower-middle-class ligger rescues a girl from her abusive father and practices for a high-profile dance contest.

In a fishermen's town in Texas, the kids Amy and Raul are close friends. Andrew, uncle and guardian of Amy is alcoholic, but she loves him. The...

Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is...

Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.

Anthology film, four episodes.

A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado,...

Brother and sister bumpkins move to the big city, where they fall into the orbit of a gigolo-pimp type.

Based on the international hit song, Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife) is the story of the coolest, street smart hustler ever to walk the streets of...

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...

A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.

Wealthy Mexican tourist gets swindled by a Cuban woman pretending to be his daughter from a previous visit.

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.

Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.

Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.

Dancing fanatic weasels his way into Perez Prado's entourage as a personal assistant.

Two young homeless people meet and fall in love, but bad luck separates them again every time they find each other.

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.

Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade...

A beer seller is kidnapped by martians, who give him special powers to become a super football player.

The continuation of the adventures of Amy and Raul.

Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.

Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.

Young man wants to marry, but his girlfriend's brothers beat the hell out of him and have him arrested . When he gets out of jail...

Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.

Stage-hand and a concession-girl try to break into showbiz.

The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling...

A lawyer cannot stop lying. And he gets into trouble when a lie becomes true.

A guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars.

Mexican feature film

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Hunters go to a mine in the country looking for a treasure and discover rumors that the mine is cursed are all too true.

Ghost horror-comedy.

Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.

A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.

Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City.

Folksy, down-to-earth priest is willing to bend the rules & cheat a little, for the well-being of his parishioners. By the end of the movie, he's...

A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.

In a small town governed by two rival families, the children break a decades-long feud by running away to the circus.

Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger.

The legend of "Peter The Knife" continues in this popular sequel to one of Mexico's all-time blockbusters. Following in his infamous father's...

Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at stake.

A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain.

Some unlucky accidents cause an innocent person to be convicted to jail time, and on release he can only find gainful employ in a criminal gang......

Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

Slacker decides to work and create a career for himself after he falls in love with an ambitious woman.

Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.

Young woman just-arrived in the big city makes friends with two middle-aged couples.

The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime....

A movie about a thief who got caught but redeemed himself by getting a job as a locksmith.

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.

A ranchera singer and his band emigrate to Texas to try their luck there.

When an inexperienced police officer discovers a corpse while inspecting a crime scene, he flees with no explanation. However, that action will help...

Bruno Halder a sinister scientist seeking revenge against his brother and niece is resurrected by Waldo his faithful sidekick. Besides his minions of...

Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.