Cantinflas Collection
Cantinflas - The Black and white movies
Cantinflas Collection Movies: Timeline & Franchise Overview
The Cantinflas Collection franchise spans roughly 45 years, featuring 40 interconnected films that build a shared narrative universe.
From its earliest installment to the most recent release, the series has expanded its world-building while introducing new characters and story arcs. Notable entries such as You’re Missing the Point demonstrate the franchise’s ability to maintain audience interest over time.
Franchise Quality Benchmark
Across all entries, the series holds an average audience rating of 7.2. While many long-running franchises experience declining reception, this series continues to deliver memorable cinematic moments.
Viewing Order Strategy
Most viewers prefer watching the films in release order, which reflects how audiences originally experienced the evolving story.
However, a chronological viewing order can provide deeper insight into the timeline of events within the Cantinflas Collection universe.
Timeline & Watch Order
We recommend watching the Cantinflas Collection franchise in the following order to fully experience the narrative expansion.
No te engañes corazón
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit ...
Así es mi tierra
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to tak...
Águila o sol
When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street. They...
Jengibre contra Dinamita
He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" (Co...
Siempre listo en las tinieblas
Cantinflas will face a thief who enters his house while he sleeps....
The Sign of Death
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. Th...
Cantinflas Ruletero
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 the...
Cantinflas boxeador
We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring....
Cantinflas y su prima
Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations....
You’re Missing the Point
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tell...
Ni sangre ni arena
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 C...
The Unknown Policeman
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members mee...
Carnaval en el trópico
Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer....
The Three Musketeers
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams...
El circo
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous ...
Romeo y Julieta
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighti...
Gran Hotel
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, ...
One Day with the Devil
Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being....
Soy un prófugo
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits....
¡A volar, joven!
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in...
El Supersabio
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 s...
El Mago
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas....
El Portero
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. ...
El Siete Machos
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by...
Si yo fuera diputado
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice...
El bombero atómico
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 f...
El señor fotógrafo
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with th...
Tailored gentleman
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use ...
Drop the Curtain
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals o...
El bolero de Raquel
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 eff...
Love Your Neighbor
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end ...
Up and Down
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 thi...
Pepe
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, dete...
El Extra
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes...
Entrega Inmediata
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called X...
Your Excellency
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banque...
El profe
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up...
The Minister and Me
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks f...
El patrullero 777
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant ...
El Barrendero
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out....
Common Questions about Cantinflas Collection
How many movies are in the Cantinflas Collection?
There are currently 40 movies in the Cantinflas Collection, starting from No te engañes corazón to the latest release, El bolero de Raquel.
What is the best order to watch the Cantinflas Collection?
The best way to watch the Cantinflas Collection is usually in release order: starting with No te engañes corazón and ending with El bolero de Raquel. Check our timeline for the full chronological breakdown.
Which is the highest-rated movie in the Cantinflas Collection?
According to movieMx ratings, the fans have a strong preference for El bombero atómico in this franchise.