Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ricardo Cortez. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Last Hurrah

1958 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Spencer Tracy · Jeffrey Hunter · Dianne Foster · Basil Rathbone

Plot An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Midnight Mary

1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Loretta Young · Ricardo Cortez · Franchot Tone · Andy Devine

Plot A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting...

6.9

128 votes

6.9

128 votes

The Locket

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Laraine Day · Brian Aherne · Robert Mitchum · Gene Raymond

Plot Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

6.8

386 votes

6.8

386 votes

The Maltese Falcon

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Bebe Daniels · Ricardo Cortez · Dudley Digges · Una Merkel

Plot Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout, he wastes no time before seeing her. It turns...

6.7

251 votes

6.7

251 votes

Symphony of Six Million

1932 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Irene Dunne · Anna Appel · Gregory Ratoff

Plot A brilliant young doctor (Cortez) grows away from his family and his community in his drive to succeed. When tragedy strikes his family, he sees where his obligations lie, but...

6.6

237 votes

6.6

237 votes

Torrent

1926 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

6.6

54 votes

6.6

54 votes

Mandalay

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kay Francis · Ricardo Cortez · Warner Oland · Lyle Talbot

Plot Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

6.4

37 votes

6.4

37 votes

The Sorrows of Satan

1926 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Ricardo Cortez · Carol Dempster · Lya De Putti

Plot Geoffrey, a young and impoverished writer, is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of...

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 votes

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Peter Lorre · Ricardo Cortez · Virginia Field · John Carradine

Plot Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British.

6.3

32 votes

6.3

32 votes

Flesh

1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Wallace Beery · Ricardo Cortez · Karen Morley · Jean Hersholt

Plot Slimy American con man Nicky and his girl Laura Nash (Ricardo Cortez & Karen Morley) are in a German jail. Laura is released but has no means to free Nicky...

6.2

135 votes

6.2

135 votes

The Man with Two Faces

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Mary Astor · Ricardo Cortez · Mae Clarke

Plot A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

Special Agent

1935 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Ricardo Cortez · Jack La Rue

Plot Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and...

6.2

58 votes

6.2

58 votes

Wonder Bar

1934 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Al Jolson · Kay Francis · Dolores del Rio · Ricardo Cortez

Plot Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder...

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

The Walking Dead

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Boris Karloff · Ricardo Cortez · Edmund Gwenn · Marguerite Churchill

Plot Bringing the dead back to life was an extremely popular horror movie theme of the thirties and forties and Boris Karloff could certainly lay claim to being the king of...

5.9

227 votes

5.9

227 votes

Mockery

1927 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Benjamin Christensen

Cast Lon Chaney · Barbara Bedford · Ricardo Cortez · Mack Swain

Plot There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. Dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food. He meets a mysterious young woman looking for the town of Novokursk....

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

Bunco Squad

1950 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Robert Sterling · Joan Dixon · Ricardo Cortez · Douglas Fowley

Plot Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section of the Los Angeles Police Department which is assigned solely to checking on the activities of fortune tellers, swamis,...

5.7

31 votes

5.7

31 votes

Illicit

1931 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · James Rennie · Ricardo Cortez · Natalie Moorhead

Plot Ann, a young lady of scandalously "advanced" ideas, has been living in near-sin with blueblood lover Dick, due to her conviction that marriage will destroy their love. Finally, social pressure...

5.7

32 votes

5.7

32 votes

Thirteen Women

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Irene Dunne · Ricardo Cortez · Jill Esmond · Myrna Loy

Plot Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and...

5.6

101 votes

5.6

101 votes

Mystery in Mexico

1948 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast William Lundigan · Jacqueline White · Ricardo Cortez · Tony Barrett

Plot Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching sister, Victoria, whom he trails to...

5.2

73 votes

5.2

73 votes

World Premiere

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast John Barrymore · Frances Farmer · Eugene Pallette · Virginia Dale

Plot A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic.

Not rated

Not rated