Pedro A. Calderón

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.

A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.

Fishing-village girl sacrifices her reputation to the local banker to protect her family; fron there, she follows the path of least resistance, but she never forgets the fiance she left behind...

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.

Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.

A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.

Saloon singer Aurora is sentenced to two years in prison for a prostitution conviction. When she gets out of prison, she gets romantically involved with Alejandro Luque, the respected judge who tried her case. Aurora and her boyfriend, el Rizos, plan to blackmail the judge. But Aurora gets a change of heart as she comes to know the judge better.

A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.

Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.

Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

Mexican romantic musical.

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.

Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.

Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.

It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor