Películas de Arturo Soto Rangel

Mexican feature film

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local...

Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.

Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street....

The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.

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...

A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.

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

In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results....

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his...

Mexican movie

During the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the...

Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and...

Mexican feature film

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful...

Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the...

Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of...

Mexican movie

Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations...

A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.

The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor...

Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day...

Mexican feature film

Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies...

After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.

A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while...

Rivalries and romances among bullfighters.

An orphan boy is left in the care of his godfather, a bartender who teaches him to play cards and shoot weapons.

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.

When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.

Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.

Historical drama about the period just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.

Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.

College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.

Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.

Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...

A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.

Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.

Political satire about fixed elections in a small town.

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create...

Priest founds an orphanage, faces conflicts with townsfolk.

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.

Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.

Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies.

Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life.

Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.

A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.

When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most...

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.

USA-educated doctor goes home for the first time in years. Culture shock.

Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.

Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.

Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from...

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted...

1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a...

Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.

Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.

Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.

A romance between a woman and a ghost.

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's...

Masked avenger on horseback, one of a series.

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

Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when...

Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.

Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.

Hero on horseback.

Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.

Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing...

Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny...

A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live...

Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the...

Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody...

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French...

When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest...

Mexican movie

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

Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.

Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns...

Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the...

Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and...

A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is...

Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately...

Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to town looking for the buried treasure that...

An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give...

Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are...

Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.

Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the...

Bride backs out of her wedding at the last possible minute; she and her fiance get caught up in a power-struggle that ends with both running for...

Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.

Romantic triangle on the hacienda.

Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is...

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...

Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to...

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.

After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and...

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries...

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...

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three...

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...

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired...

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to...

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro...

A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with...

A 1941 film.

A 1938 film.

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet...

Comedy/drama about railroad workers.

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon...

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized...

Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.

Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule....

Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous...

Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII

Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.

Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced....

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.

Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as...

1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his...

Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.

Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.

Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of...

An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they...

Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then...

Young peasant woman allows an army officer to woo her, as a way of drawing attention away from her father's insurgent connections... while her own...

Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the...

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.

A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.

Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.

Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his...

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon...

A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his...

A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.

A magician suspected of having killed a colleague is arrested by the police, but his assistant helps him escape.

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar...