Mimí Derba
Birthday: 1893-01-01
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Biography: Mimí Derba (1893–1953) was a Mexican actress and the first female director in Mexico. Derba founded one of the very first Mexican production companies, Azteca Films. She had a successful career in Vaudeville before entering films.
Movies
La malquerida
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...
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You the Rich
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children....
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María Eugenia
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise...
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The Seminarian
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in o...
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Café Concordia
During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Co...
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El baisano Jalil
Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose s...
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La razón de la culpa
Roberto on a journey to Mexico knows to Maria de La Paz, a woman older than he, who falls in love, s...
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La trepadora
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating ...
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Me he de comer esa tuna
In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marri...
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Mi mujer no es mía
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmak...
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Santa
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south ...
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El abandonado
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round d...
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El capitán Malacara
Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he lea...
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A Letter of Love
Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love ...
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Salon Mexico
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes ...
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Wild Flower
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the fo...
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La loca de la casa
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor....
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The Absentee
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious ac...
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El espectro de la novia
British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popu...
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Rosauro Castro
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Gar...
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they e...
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Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby,...
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La casa de la zorra
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son ...
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Fantasía ranchera
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first ope...
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La vida en broma
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others...
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La hija del penal
A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and ...
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Martín Garatuza
Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of oppos...
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Rocambole
Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wron...
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Sangre en el barrio
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification....
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Inmaculada
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sit...
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Soul Sacrifice
Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra....
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La soñadora
La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra....
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In Self Defense
The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio...
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Cuatro horas antes de morir
The film tells the intense countdown of a man sentenced to death....
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María
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of ...
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Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses....
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México de mis recuerdos
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susani...
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Toda una vida
A beautiful young woman, adopted as a child by a man, falls in love with her stepfather and wants to...
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Médico de guardia
The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the...
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