Joaquín Coss

Arsenio Lupin

Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.

Viejo nido

Mexican movie

Story of a Great Love

Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.

The Unknown Policeman

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.

Creo en Dios

A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

El secreto del sacerdote

Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.

Mala yerba

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

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.

El hipnotizador

A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.

Los últimos días de Pompeyo

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

Madre a la fuerza

A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

Los apuros de Narciso

A 1940 film directed by Enrique Herrera.

La canción del milagro

A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar.

Viviré otra vez

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

Odio

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

El cobarde

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 him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.

Ojos tapatios

Mexican feature film

Nobody's Wife

A melodrama that tells the story of a young woman forced to leave home because her stepfather abuses her.

Las mujeres mandan

Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer.

No te engañes corazón

No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.

Celos

Irrational jealousy blossoms into full-blown psychosis.

Prisoner 13

Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.

The Grey Automobile

A gang terrorizes Mexico City's high society in 1915. Murder, kidnaping and robbery are their trademarks. One police inspector (Cabrera) follows the gang's crimes and eventually sends them to jail.