Roberto Cobo
Popularity:0.098
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1930-02-20
Place of Birth:General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Also Known As:Calambres

The Young and the Damned (1950)
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and...

Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One...

Mexican Bus Ride (1952)
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort...

Santitos (1999)
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza...

The Image Book (2018)
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts...

Life Sentence (1979)
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

Speaking of Buñuel (2000)
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou,...

Knock Out (1984)
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.

La leyenda de Rodrígo (1981)
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.

Without Destination (2002)
Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is...

Estas ruinas que ves (1979)
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already...

Una luz en la calle (2002)
Mexican feature film

The Magic Hour (2000)
Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind....

Se alquila marido (1961)
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.

At a Lame Pace (1980)
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

El ángel caído (1949)
Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.

Dancing, salón de baile (1952)
Mambo nightclub is a front for gangster activity.

Dulces compañías (1996)
Evil street hustler plays out elaborate psychodramas with his janes and johns. They end up regretting they invited him home with them.

The Glories of the Great Púas (1984)
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.

Caribbean Rhythms (1950)
A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.

Los enredos de una gallega (1951)
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In...

Angel del barrio (1981)
Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood.

Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997)
The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.

Hembra o macho (1991)
A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite.

D.F./Distrito Federal (1981)
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.

La casa colorada (1947)
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.

House of the Frights (1963)
Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.

El águila descalza (1971)
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local...

El agujero (1997)
After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.

Free Love (1978)
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or...

Deceitful Appearances (1983)
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the...

Pompeyo el conquistador (1953)
Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.

Long live Tepito! (1981)
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring...

Black Wind (1965)
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles...

Vuelva el sábado (1951)
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.

Slaughter Night (1990)
Three part anthology with stories involving a Phantom of the Opera-style killer haunting a theater, four punks who pick the wrong house to rob and a...

Bring Me the Vampire (1963)
A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their...

Donde nacen los pobres (1950)
Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to...

The King of the Neighborhood (1950)
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

Jóvenes y bellas (1962)
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna (1978)
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town,...

El Mil Usos II (1984)
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.

Los hermanos Machorro (1988)
Aging rancher reaches out to absorb an illegitimate son from long ago into his family. That son turns out to be a big ol' hairdresser; will he ever...

A Beautiful Secret (2002)
The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and...

El día del compadre (1983)
The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol.

The Heart of the Night (1984)
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange,...

La reina del mambo (1951)
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.

Long Sleepless Nights (2000)
Bruno, a young prostitute on the streets of Mexico city, spends his free time yearning for his straight friend Umberto. When Umberto rejects him,...

Naná (1985)
Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts...

La niña de mis ojos (1947)
Classic movie of Mexican cinema.

The Place Without Limits (1978)
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

Violent Stories (1985)
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Una gringuita en México (1951)
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything...

Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio (1949)
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son...

Los pasos de Ana (1993)
A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in...

Amsterdam Boulevard (1991)
Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask...

The Legend of a Mask (1991)
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"

El hijo de Lamberto Quintero (1990)
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe...

Nosotras, las taquígrafas (1950)
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.

Caiman's Dream (2001)
Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and...

Beso nocturno (2002)
A young man witnesses the horrible death of his girlfriend. He then sells his sexual services to a woman who brings him home to her dying husband.

A Mexican Buñuel (1997)
A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.