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- The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood director Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.
- A new priest comes to a little town causing discomfort to parishioners.
- Cantinflas plays a charismatic gooder lawyer in small causes for poorest people that there aren't a penny to pay the coasts to lead it to the Courthouse those weirdest cases, there he misled everybody with his sweet-talk, gaining prestige.
- Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos for a prestigious store. He just has to wander around in the streets, wearing the tuxedo and a big ad, put on his back. The tuxedo allows him to access to exclusive places, where he meets important and rich people. During his free time, Cantinflas is the manager of an amateur boxer, assists an attractive nurser and occasionally helps a priest in the church and running a poor orphanage. However, one day Cantinflas, wearing the tuxedo, meets a rich man, whom falsely believes that our friend is also a millionaire.
- A teacher arrives to El Romeral, a little town where he must face many cons to teach, many persons who doesn't want that children be educate to continuing exploiting the people under their ambitious plans.
- In order to woo Rosario, Margarito pretends to be the famous outlaw "Siete Machos", called like that because "he possesses the courage of seven macho men".
- Tired of the same politicians, who never do anything to improve their welfare, people from a poor neighborhood decide to support the local barber boy (Cantinflas) for public office.
- Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
- It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town....he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
- An apprentice of photography is accidentally involved in a n international complot.
- It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
- A wealthy couple marries their "unattractive" daughter to one of their farmhands, who ultimately becomes a celebrated aviator.
- Fidencio Barrenillo goes to Arizona in search of an old silver mine that belonged to his great-grandfather.
- A jack-of-all-trades works in a film studio, where he meets a young woman who wants to become an actress.
- A man who cannot read or write is given a letter that says he is the inheritor of two million pesos, which starts off a series of events regarding his job, love, and education.
- Cantinflas captures a gang who had robbed a bank the night before. Considered a hero, becomes a member of the force for special missions because of his ability to disguise himself in many different forms.
- A beautiful actress invites Cantinflas to work at a film studio, where he falls asleep and dreams he is D'Artagnan.
- Lopez, treated derisively by all as Lopitos, is a humble but loyal citizen of Los Cocos Republic who works as an assistant at the chancellery, helping to process visas. Through a sudden series of events, namely the Los Cocos Ambassador's fear of the number 13, a strict protocol, three military coups, and a revolution, all successful in the same day, with many changes in governments, and ambassadors, Lopitos becomes the ambassador--just when a powerful international struggle is taking place and the Red and Green factions are vying to attract all the yet-undecided votes among the nations of the world, to convene soon in an international conference to decide who will govern the world. All of the nations have either lined up behind the "Green" banner, led by the money-oriented Dolaronia, or the "Red" ideology, whose figurehead is the prime minister of socialist Pepeslavia; except, of course, the recently appointed civil government of Los Cocos. With the votes divided 50-50 between the Red and Green factions, diplomacy, bribery, and personal corruption fall heavily on the shoulders of His Excellency Lopitos to gain his vote. His speech will be the last at the large assembly, after long tirades from adepts of both factions, and it is a speech to end all speeches.
- The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
- Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love with his pretty neighbor (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing won't be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
- There have been many versions of Shakespeare's masterpiece, but none like the one starring Cantinflas. This delightful and humorous version also carries a powerful message to today's parents, showing them how to approach the problems of their children with understanding, firmness, and tolerance.
- Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
- A newspaper boy mistakenly goes to the army; after dying during a mission, he goes to visit the afterlife.
- A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
- This movie was released as "Entrega Immediata" . Cantinflas plays a postman who unknowingly gets involved in a spy caper. This is one of funniest turns. Cantinflas was 52 when he made it, but was still in top comedic form.
- A window washer (Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") is accused of stealing jewels from a famous actress, but is given 30 days to solve the crime.
- A shoemaker joins a circus and falls in love with the circus owner's daughter.
- Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition.
- A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling off a major heist and forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
- After failing as a waiter, Cantinflas gets a job as a bellboy in a fancy hotel, by recommendation of his girlfriend. He has to deal with posh people and even with the nobility. One day, an expensive and rare collar, property of a noblewoman, disappear, and Cantinflas is the only one who knows where it is. But Cantinflas gets amnesia caused by a big bunch in his head. Will he tell us the real location of the relic?
- A series of vignettes about the cases attended by the doctors and nurses at the Mexico City Red Cross hospital.
- We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.
- Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.
- Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking them to their destination.