17-08-1916
Birthday
Leo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
109
Total Films
Francisco A. Cordova, Francisco Cordova, Pancho Cordova, Francisco Amado Córdova Ramírez
Also known as (male)
Pichucalco, Chiapas, Mexico
Place of Birth
17-08-1916
Birthday
Leo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
109
Total Films
Francisco A. Cordova, Francisco Cordova, Pancho Cordova
Also Known As (male)
Pichucalco, Chiapas, Mexico
Place of Birth
actor
109 Works
producer
1 Works
director
16 Works
writer
13 Works
other
1 Works
La capilla ardiente
A young man with telekinetic powers comes to stay in an old house inhabited by two sisters and there he has to face supernatural phenomena that reach their culmination when he is saved from dying by an old man murdered some time ago.Year:
1981
El rediezcubrimiento de México
Year:
1979
Rocky Carambola
The circus in which Rocky Carambola and Coco, his chimpanzee friend, work, arrives in a city where strange things happen.Year:
1979
Matar por matar
Year:
1979
The Nights of Paloma
While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.Year:
1978
La plaza de Puerto Santo
The town's leading families decide to step down and let average citizens take responsibility for city government, from Mayor on down.Year:
1978
Duro pero seguro
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.Year:
1978
Una noche embarazosa
An Italian taxicab driver is used as a "breeding man" to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico.Year:
1977
La coquito
La Coquito is a Cuban cuplés, coveted by men for her beauty and sensuality. After great hardship in Cuba, she accepts the proposal of a Spanish businessman to work in Madrid. There she meets various men who will compete for her love.Year:
1977
Acto de posesión
Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child.Year:
1977
Las ficheras (Bellas de noche II)
Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.Year:
1977
Longitud de Guerra
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.Year:
1976
Life Changes
An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...Year:
1976
The Boy and the Star
Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. 'Year:
1976
El Rey
Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.Year:
1976
El alegre divorciado
Ramón y Socorro, a 50-year-old couple, owners of a tavern, embarks on a long trip to Mexico to attend the wedding of their son, Carlos, with Gloria, the daughter of an important Mexican businessman. Upon arriving in Mexico, Ramón discovers that in this country there is a divorce. Fed up with his wife, he decides to divorce without taking into account that he will soon pay the consequences of this act.Year:
1976
A Home of Our Own
The story of Father William Wasson, who founded and operated a home for abandoned and orphaned children in Mexico.Year:
1975
La presidenta municipal
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.Year:
1975
Don Herculano enamorado
Doddering old man makes a play for a married woman. Her husband gets practical joke-y in revenge.Year:
1975
Tivoli
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.Year:
1975
Cristo te ama
A young woman is fired by her lover from her job in a bookstore and meets a trafficker she falls in love with. She becomes a heroin and prostitutes to buy the drug. The trafficker is arrested and she surrenders to the supplier in exchange for drugs. He pretends to care for a cemetery and demands money from him. She desperately kills him. When the trafficker leaves, he decides to rebuild his life and goes as a doctor to the mountains with the young woman. She also wants to quit the drug and succeeds with her help, but when boarding a vehicle they are killed by four gunmen. Source: http://www.imcine.gob.mx/cine-mexicano/pelicula2425Year:
1975
Pantaleón y las visitadoras
Pantaleón and the visitors is a peruvian film made in 1975 and based on the book of the same name by Mario Vargas Llosa. Directed by the novelist himself along with José María Gutiérrez Santos, it was released in Puerto Rico. Among its protagonists, José Sacristán, the Mexican Katy Jurado and Rosa Carmina and the Peruvian Camucha Negrete.Year:
1975
Omen
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.Year:
1975
La madrecita
Year:
1974
Inspector Calzonzin
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974Year:
1974
Those Years
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern MexicoYear:
1974
Faith, Hope and Charity
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.Year:
1974
The Mansion of Madness
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.Year:
1973
El bueno para nada
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.Year:
1973
The Cubs
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.Year:
1973
The Long Goodbye
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.Year:
1973
Once Upon a Scoundrel
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.Year:
1973
National Mechanics
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.Year:
1972
A Twelve Year Old Pirate
In the sixteenth Captain Morgan pirate ship is sunk by the Spanish fleet. He and four companions make it to an island, but the beaches are occupied by the Spanish. The child Erick, son of John Goldark, King of the Pirates, who died trying to save his nephews Lady Harold and the Spanish prisoners, helping them into the jungle. Grateful Morgan and his friends save the captives. When it seems that children are lost flying the Spanish magazine. Then fight with cannibals and are again caught by the Spanish, but are saved by another pirate ship.Year:
1972
El rincón de las vírgenes
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.Year:
1972
El vals sin fin
Year:
1972
The Children of Satan
Two sworn enemies must put aside their differences and join forces to catch a gang of thieves led by a woman called "The Yara". They must fight to save their village from the bandits and do everything necessary to prevent The Yara from controlling their destinies.Year:
1972
Doña Macabra
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.Year:
1972
Hay ángeles sin alas
Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.Year:
1972
The Wrath of God
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.Year:
1972
Tú, yo, nosotros
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.Year:
1972
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...Year:
1972
Sucedió en Jalisco
Romantic conflicts set against a Mexican Revolution backdrop.Year:
1972
Apolinar
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.Year:
1972
El águila descalza
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.Year:
1971
The Moderate Doctor
Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.Year:
1971
Jesús, nuestro Señor
Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.Year:
1971
River of Gold
A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.Year:
1971
There's Always a First Time
Year:
1971
Los destrampados
Year:
1971
Paradise
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.Year:
1970
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.Year:
1970
Two Mules for Sister Sara
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.Year:
1970
Tres amigos
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.Year:
1970
The World's Oldest Profession
Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.Year:
1970
The Desperate Mission
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.Year:
1969
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.Year:
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.Year:
1969
Romance sobre ruedas
A sporty new car is gifted to two young men who work at an auto factory, and they have to time-share it between them.Year:
1969
When Children are Gone
Remake of an archetypal 1940s melodrama about parents sacrificing their own well-being for the convenience of ungrateful adult children.Year:
1969
Los Asesinos
Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure. The search leads to an all out war between the town bosses, a family of crooked ranchers and other unsavory characters. But when Shannon (Nick Adams) enters the picture, they may have met their match...Year:
1968
Agente 00 Sexy
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.Year:
1968
Guns for San Sebastian
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.Year:
1968
Rage
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.Year:
1966
Esta noche no
Mexican feature filmYear:
1966
Tirando a gol
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.Year:
1966
¿Qué haremos con papá?
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.Year:
1966
Los Sánchez deben morir
An anxious father wants to trap the Sanchez brothers into marrying his two daughters.Year:
1966
Los dos cuatreros
Two wandering cowboys are falsely accused of murder.Year:
1965
The Gangster
An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.Year:
1965
Tarahumara (Further and farther)
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.Year:
1965
History of a Scoundrel
A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him.Year:
1964
Las hijas del Zorro
Two sisters. They ride horses, they wear black dominos, they carry bullwhips. Their dad was... Third of three movies in unofficial series; the first two didn't explicitly reference Zorro.Year:
1964
En la mitad del mundo
Mexican-Ecuadorian film from 1964, originally titled: ‘The Misadventures of Don Ventura’. A musical comedy created in the style of traditional classic Hollywood cinema of the 1950s, with the purpose of promoting Ecuador to the world through an idyllic vision of the country that erased economic, political and social conflicts, while offering its national and international viewers the idea of a harmonious nation in the process of modernization.Year:
1964
Un ángel de mal genio
Year:
1964
The Laughter Of The City
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.Year:
1963
En la vieja California
Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved.Year:
1963
Las vengadoras enmascaradas
Zorro-inspired sister act, black dominos and bullwhips. Second of three in unofficial series.Year:
1963
Aventuras de las hermanas X
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.Year:
1963
Tlayucan
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.Year:
1962
Los bárbaros del norte
Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.Year:
1962
The Bloody Vampire
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.Year:
1962
The Exterminating Angel
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.Year:
1962
La marca del gavilán
Masked hero fights crime on horseback. #3 in the series "El Latigo Negro."Year:
1962
Juan sin miedo
One-armed man tracks the people who killed his father.Year:
1961
My Son, the Hero
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.Year:
1961
Besito a papá
A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.Year:
1961
Muchachas que trabajan
Working in a department store exposes young ladies to corrupting influences.Year:
1961
Suerte te dé Dios
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.Year:
1961
Dos Criados Malcriados
Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.Year:
1960
Tin Tan y las modelos
Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.Year:
1960
Born to Love
Year:
1959
Las coronelas
Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.Year:
1959
Vivir del cuento
X has to postpone his marriage for 3 months in order to collect a huge inheritance... so he hires Y to keep his fiancee and her father busy during the hiatus.Year:
1959
El cariñoso
Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.Year:
1959
La pandilla se divierte
Year:
1959
Sabrás que te quiero
Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.Year:
1958
Vuelve Chistelandia
Collection of comedy sketches and blackout gags edited into feature-length movie. Laugh-In style.Year:
1958
Nueva Chistelandia
Sketch comedy and blackout gags -- format like Laugh-In. Number two in a series.Year:
1958
Chistelandia
Short-attention-span sketch comedy and black-out gags, assembled into a movie. Structured like TV show "Laugh-In". First of three in series.Year:
1958
Love Your Neighbor
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.Year:
1958
Manos arriba
A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.Year:
1958
Échenme al gato
Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.Year:
1958
La esquina de mi barrio
Two young sweethearts get tangled up with a bad guy and a stolen necklace.Year:
1957
Nunca me hagan eso
Blowhard's mouth runs away with him and he's trapped into having to prove that he knows Maria Antonieta Pons, the big movie star and stuff.Year:
1957
La locura del rock and roll
Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.Year:
1957
Oh shorties… how many!
The reading of a will turns into a scavenger hunt among the heirs.Year:
1956
New faces
Mexican feature filmYear:
1956
Si, Mi vida
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.Year:
1953
