Juan Orol
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis: 1897-08-04
Locus Natus: Lalín, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Et ut: Juan Orol García, Juan Rogelio García, Juan Rogelio García García
Soulless Women
Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they...
release : 1934.01.01popularis : 1.255
Gangsters Versus Cowboys
Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse...
release : 1947.01.02popularis : 2.816
El amor de mi bohío
El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyrics o a popular love ballad of the same name. It is...
release : 1947.11.19popularis : 1.343
Olmedo: El rey de la risa
Aspects of the life of Alberto Olmedo, from his childhood in Rosario, his beginnings as an acrobat and comedian in that city and the continuation of...
release : 2019.03.07popularis : 0.397
Cabaret Shanghai
Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.
release : 1950.08.31popularis : 1.016
Antesala de la silla eléctrica
A young man is sentenced to death on the electric chair. The lieutenant who captured him does all he can to prevent it, because he is convinced of...
release : 1966.01.01popularis : 0.354
Historia de un gángster
Sequel to Juan Orol's "Organización criminal". After 6 years in prison, gangster Tony Florino is released from custody. He repeatedly makes it...
release : 1968.01.01popularis : 1.288
Siboney
In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her...
release : 1940.10.19popularis : 0.696
Contrabandistas del Caribe
A crime organization that deals with drug trafficking discovers that more and more drugs keep disappearing. Joe Luciana, a man who is respected for...
release : 1966.04.24popularis : 1.296
Organización criminal
A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and Italian mobsters, fails to resolve their...
release : 1968.01.01popularis : 0.658
Los misterios del hampa
Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for.
release : 1945.10.26popularis : 1.383
Perdición de mujeres
Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd.
release : 1951.11.16popularis : 0.521
México de noche
Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.
release : 1975.06.12popularis : 0.484
Under the Cover of Night
The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.
release : 1962.10.24popularis : 0.339
El reino de los gángsters
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
release : 1948.08.05popularis : 1.76
El fantástico mundo de los hippies
The head of the FBI explains that hippies were good, but that they have degenerated due to psychedelic painting, drugs, and becoming addicted to free...
release : 1972.06.21popularis : 1.017
Under the influence of fear
Gang leader sets one of his flunkies up to take the fall for a certain job; after he does his jail time, the guy goes gunning for the people who set...
release : 1956.08.09popularis : 1.52
El derecho y el deber
Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man.
release : 1937.05.07popularis : 1.011
Ni modo... así somos
Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'.
release : 1981.09.03popularis : 1.757
Una mujer de Oriente
A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his own wife is involved.
release : 1946.05.04popularis : 1.113
El calvario de una esposa
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is...
release : 1936.09.05popularis : 0.962
Eterna mártir
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care...
release : 1937.10.28popularis : 1.269
Hombres sin alma
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things...
release : 1951.12.07popularis : 0.841
The Hell of the Poor
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.
release : 1951.11.01popularis : 2.498
Secretaria peligrosa
A secretary plans to rob her boss with the help of her gangster boyfriend and his gang, but a special agent attempts to stop them in their tracks.
release : 1958.06.11popularis : 0.741
El sindicato del crimen
A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".
release : 1954.12.22popularis : 0.545
Plazos traicioneros
A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached,...
release : 1958.07.03popularis : 1.939