Nosotros los pobres ("We, the Poor") is a 1948 Mexican drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez, and starring Pedro Infante,[1] Evita Muñoz "Chachita" and Blanca Estela Pavón.

[3] Nosotros los pobres was originally titled Topillos y Planillas (named after two of the characters in the film and before the main character Jose "Pepe el Toro" was created),[4] but later changed after its author Pedro de Urdimalas heard Abel Cureño (who's also in the film and at that time was playing a street vendor selling oranges in the radio show La Banda de Huipanguillo) commenting (in character) about the unfair treatment of the poor people in the city exclaimed: "Nosotros los pobres somos despreciados por la gente; Nosotros los pobres no tenemos nada" ("We the poor are outcast by society; We the poor own nothing").

[5] Pepe el Toro (the bull), a carpenter, lives with his adopted daughter Chachita in a poor neighbourhood in Mexico City.

A few minutes later, Don Pilar enters and steals the money, but Pepe's paraplegic mom sees him, he notices this but ignores her.

Pepe begins to work for Doña Merneciana, a rich woman, to earn the money he needs to repay Montes for the table.

However, Don Pilar turns mad since he begins to feel guilty of his actions, and brutally beats Pepe's mother.

A few months later, Pepe reunites with Chachita and Celia, with whom he has married and had a baby boy, Emilio Giron, called "El Torito".

They go to the cemetery to visit the graves of Pepe's mom and sister, there Chachita encounters the woman again who and asks her "did you mistake the tomb again?"

Rodríguez directed all three films, with Infante and Muñóz returning for both sequels, while Pavón only reprised her character in Ustedes los ricos, as she died in a plane crash in 1949.