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Carlos Toussaint

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Carlos Toussaint (1901–1975) was a Mexican film director and production designer. He was active during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema and worked as art director on many productions. He also directed fourteen films between 1940 and 1964 including the Cantinflas short Cantinflas y su prima. He was married to the makeup artist Sara Mateos.

23-08-1901

Birthday

Virgo

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Total Films

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Mexico City, Mexico

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director

54 Works

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38 Works

Kiss from Beyond the Grave

Kiss from Beyond the Grave

A newlywed couple find themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house from which they get very bad vibes. It's not long before some very strange and disturbing people begin showing up at the house.
5.7

Year:

1963

Baile de graduación

Baile de graduación

Mexican feature film
5.0

Year:

1963

Los falsos héroes

Los falsos héroes

Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
5.0

Year:

1962

El fusilamiento

El fusilamiento

Mexican feature film
5.0

Year:

1962

Then God Named It Earth

Then God Named It Earth

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
5.2

Year:

1961

Then God Named It Earth

Then God Named It Earth

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
5.2

Year:

1961

The Song of Jean Richepin

The Song of Jean Richepin

Entry, 1958 Brussel's Experimental Film Exhibition
0.0

Year:

1958

La Canción de Jean Richepin

La Canción de Jean Richepin

Asked by his beloved to bring his mother's heart for her dog, a hopeless lover tears it out, stumbles with it, lets it fall. Rolling across the floor, the heart gasps out: “Are you hurt, my son?"
0.0

Year:

1958

The Stone Crucifix

The Stone Crucifix

A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
5.0

Year:

1956

Marejada

Marejada

Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
5.6

Year:

1952

No desearás la mujer de tu hijo

No desearás la mujer de tu hijo

An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
7.8

Year:

1950

The Black Sheep

The Black Sheep

The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
7.8

Year:

1949

The Seminarian

The Seminarian

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 way, including the female kind.
5.9

Year:

1949

La Mujer Que Yo Perdí

La Mujer Que Yo Perdí

A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.
7.7

Year:

1949

Dicen que soy mujeriego

Dicen que soy mujeriego

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
6.7

Year:

1949

Cuando los padres se quedan solos

Cuando los padres se quedan solos

Mom and dad make sacrifices for the sake of their adult children. And then more sacrifices. And more.
5.0

Year:

1949

Allá en el Rancho Grande

Allá en el Rancho Grande

Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
5.5

Year:

1949

You the Rich

You the Rich

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
7.5

Year:

1948

Angelitos Negros

Angelitos Negros

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"
7.9

Year:

1948

Las mañanitas

Las mañanitas

Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
5.0

Year:

1948

Los Tres Huastecos

Los Tres Huastecos

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.
8.2

Year:

1948

Cortesana

Cortesana

Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
5.5

Year:

1948

Si Adelita se fuera con otro

Si Adelita se fuera con otro

Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
5.6

Year:

1948

We the Poor

We the Poor

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
8.0

Year:

1948

The Well-paid

The Well-paid

Melodrama about marital infidelity.
5.0

Year:

1948

Vuelven los García

Vuelven los García

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.
5.5

Year:

1947

Vuelven los García

Vuelven los García

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.
5.5

Year:

1947

The Three Garcías

The Three Garcías

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.
7.9

Year:

1947

Cuando lloran los valientes

Cuando lloran los valientes

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
5.1

Year:

1947

La culpable

La culpable

Mexican movie
5.0

Year:

1946

Escándalo de estrellas

Escándalo de estrellas

The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
4.2

Year:

1944

Viva Mi Desgracia

Viva Mi Desgracia

After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
5.5

Year:

1944

Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra

Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra

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 Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
5.9

Year:

1943

Santa

Santa

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito
5.6

Year:

1943

The Spirit's Canyon

The Spirit's Canyon

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
5.8

Year:

1943

Dark Angel

Dark Angel

Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
6.1

Year:

1942

Lo que el viento trajo

Lo que el viento trajo

A 1941 film.
4.0

Year:

1941

When the Children are Gone

When the Children are Gone

Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
6.2

Year:

1941

You’re Missing the Point

You’re Missing the Point

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.
8.1

Year:

1940

Cantinflas y su prima

Cantinflas y su prima

Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.
7.3

Year:

1940

Cantinflas y su prima

Cantinflas y su prima

Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.
7.3

Year:

1940

To the Sound of the Marimba

To the Sound of the Marimba

Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
6.8

Year:

1940

In the Times of Don Porfirio

In the Times of Don Porfirio

In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
5.6

Year:

1940

The Girls Aunt

The Girls Aunt

Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.
4.3

Year:

1938

Suprema ley

Suprema ley

5.0

Year:

1937

Malditas sean las mujeres

Malditas sean las mujeres

A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
5.0

Year:

1936

Mystery of the Ghastly Face

Mystery of the Ghastly Face

Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
4.8

Year:

1935

Two Monks

Two Monks

In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
6.2

Year:

1934