Roberto Cobo
Roberto Cobo was born on February 20, 1930 in General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico as Roberto Garcia Romero. He was an actor, known for Los olvidados (1950), Dulces compañías (1996) and Subida al cielo (1952).
His apartment collapsed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Fortunately, he was rescued but his hip was damaged badly. He had to use a staff to walk after the earthquake.
He died on August 2, 2002 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5293 |
| Birthday | 1930-02-20 |
| Place of Birth | General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico |
| Also Known As | Calambres, |
1950
The Young and the Damned
8.038/534
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...
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The Young and the Damned
1991
Cabeza de Vaca
6.811/37
In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the Ameri...
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Cabeza de Vaca
1952
Mexican Bus Ride
6.6/35
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 ou...
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Mexican Bus Ride
1999
Little Saints
5.036/14
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza t...
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Little Saints
2018
The Image Book
6.331/83
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books...
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The Image Book
1979
Life Sentence
6.857/28
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.
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Life Sentence
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
6/12
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminat...
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Speaking of Buñuel
1984
Knock Out
6.833/9
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
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Knock Out
1985
Dulce espiritu
6/3
Mexican feature film
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Dulce espiritu
1981
La leyenda de Rodrígo
6.5/4
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
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La leyenda de Rodrígo
1990
Me alquilo por amor
3.4/5
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Me alquilo por amor
1994
La Güera Chabela
6/3
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La Güera Chabela
2002
Without Destination
5.5/14
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 money...
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Without Destination
1979
Estas ruinas que ves
4.2/10
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 ple...
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Estas ruinas que ves
2002
Una luz en la calle
6.333/3
Mexican feature film
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Una luz en la calle
2000
The Magic Hour
4.444/9
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. Un...
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The Magic Hour
1947
El secreto de Juan Palomo
6.75/4
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El secreto de Juan Palomo
1961
Se alquila marido
5.6/5
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
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Se alquila marido
1980
At a Lame Pace
4.5/8
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
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At a Lame Pace
1949
El ángel caído
6/5
Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.
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El ángel caído
1952
Dancing, salón de baile
5.5/6
Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.
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Dancing, salón de baile
1996
Dulces Compañías
6.333/6
A geography teacher hires a male sex worker, yet the man is not what he appears to be.
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Dulces Compañías
1984
The Glories of the Great Púas
6/4
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
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The Glories of the Great Púas
1950
Caribbean Rhythms
6/3
A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.
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Caribbean Rhythms
1951
Los enredos de una gallega
6.2/5
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 her ques...
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Los enredos de una gallega
1981
Angel del barrio
6.667/3
Patada de Mula, an old retired boxer, lives with the guilt of having killed his opponent in his last fight, but he works as a masseur in a gym, sells...
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Angel del barrio
1951
Mujeres de teatro
6.2/5
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Mujeres de teatro
1997
Esmeralda Comes by Night
5.273/11
The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
1991
Hembra o macho
4.6/5
A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite.
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Hembra o macho
1981
D.F./Distrito Federal
6.333/33
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
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D.F./Distrito Federal
1947
La casa colorada
5.833/6
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
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La casa colorada
1963
House of the Frights
5.714/7
Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
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House of the Frights
1971
El águila descalza
5.8/5
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexic...
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El águila descalza
1997
El agujero
6.167/6
After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.
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El agujero
1978
Free Love
5.167/12
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring...
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Free Love
1983
Deceitful Appearances
4.591/11
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial...
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Deceitful Appearances
1953
Pompeyo el conquistador
5.75/4
Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.
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Pompeyo el conquistador
1981
Long live Tepito!
6/6
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring bl...
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Long live Tepito!
1965
Black Wind
7.9/23
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles be...
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Black Wind
1951
Vuelva el sábado
5.75/4
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
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Vuelva el sábado
1990
Slaughter Night
5.167/6
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 m...
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Slaughter Night
1963
Bring Me the Vampire
4.222/9
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 inher...
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Bring Me the Vampire
1989
Pancho cachuchas
6/4
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Pancho cachuchas
1950
Donde nacen los pobres
6.25/4
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 giv...
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Donde nacen los pobres
1950
The King of the Neighborhood
8.32/61
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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The King of the Neighborhood
1962
Jóvenes y bellas
6/6
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
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Jóvenes y bellas
1978
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
5.909/11
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by...
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
1984
El Mil Usos II
6.429/7
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
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El Mil Usos II
1988
Los hermanos Machorro
5.8/5
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 fi...
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Los hermanos Machorro
2002
A Beautiful Secret
5.778/9
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 Jo...
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A Beautiful Secret
1983
El Dia Del Compadre
5.462/13
The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol.
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El Dia Del Compadre
1984
The Heart of the Night
5.111/9
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, hallucin...
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The Heart of the Night
1951
La reina del mambo
4.833/6
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
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La reina del mambo
2000
Long Sleepless Nights
4.167/6
Bruno, a young prostitute on the streets of Mexico city, spends his free time yearning for his straight friend Umberto. When Umberto rejects him, Brun...
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Long Sleepless Nights
1985
Naná
4.727/11
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 performed...
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Naná
1947
La niña de mis ojos
6.2/10
Classic movie of Mexican cinema.
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La niña de mis ojos
1978
The Place Without Limits
7.331/62
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
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The Place Without Limits
1985
Violent Stories
5.875/8
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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Violent Stories
1951
Una gringuita en México
6/5
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...
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Una gringuita en México
1949
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
6/5
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 f...
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Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
1993
Los pasos de Ana
5/3
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...
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Los pasos de Ana
1991
Amsterdam Boulevard
6.333/3
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 hi...
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Amsterdam Boulevard
1950
Si fuera una cualquiera
5.667/3
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Si fuera una cualquiera
1991
The Legend of a Mask
5.091/11
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
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The Legend of a Mask
1991
Contigo en la distancia
8/1
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Contigo en la distancia
1990
El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
5.6/5
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 A...
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
1950
Nosotras, las taquígrafas
6/5
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
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Nosotras, las taquígrafas
1982
La combi asesina
4.4/5
Mexican feature film
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La combi asesina
2001
Caiman's Dream
7/6
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 realizes th...
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Caiman's Dream
2002
Beso nocturno
4.5/2
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.
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Beso nocturno
1997
A Mexican Buñuel
6/6
A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.
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A Mexican Buñuel
1950
El pecado de ser pobre
6.667/3
Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
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El pecado de ser pobre
1949
El diablo no es tan diablo
5.8/5
A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to clai...
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