A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
An altar boy goes to the city and finds himself in raunchy situations.
In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.
Mexican horror-crime-type film, with a group of young people going on a brutal rape and home-invasion-killing crime spree and filming their escapades with a camcorder as it happens.
Softcore sex-farce about a guy with a really big lump in his underpants...and all the women who flock to him.
Comical misadventures: lady taxi-driver + doofus policemen.
Don Matías
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a powerful cartel, with protections at high police levels. Knowing the local officials will not serve out justice, she takes matters into her own hands. Armed with a machine gun, she'll attempt to get revenge by her own hands - but the enemy has more firepower than her.
Young dancer joins the cast of a musical-comedy production, falls in love with young comic actor.
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
Reporter investigating an actress' death gains an overview of her whole biography.
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
Doctor Urbiola
Public-works engineer entrusted with a big project faces problems in his home life and conflicts with a corrupt local businessman.
Well, there's a guy that runs a stall at A Swap Meet, and... um... I forget.
Don Antonio, señor ministro
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 for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Don Pablo Rentería
The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he eludes them.
Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood.
Don Roberto Monroy
Ramon is a guy who lives in a neighborhood, in the " fifth courtyard " in urban poverty. Nevertheless, aspires to the love of the daughter of his employer, a woman of another social class.
Doctor Velarde
Don Serafín Templado, secretario
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 banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Inspector Saldivar
Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
Masked hero on horseback,. number 1 of short-lived series.
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Miguel Manzano
The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.
Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
Gloomy, fatalistic grown-up western.
Five cowboy avengers avenging. Cowboyishly.
The Big Bad Wolf and the Stinky Little Skunk from the Caperucita Roja movies in their final adventure, as swashbuckling 17th century swordsmen in a king's service.
Don Fernando, papá de Alicia
A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.
Don Fermín
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.
Don Rafael Elizondo
The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
Señor Noreña
Rookie reporter and his publisher's daughter get caught up in a bizarre crime/traffic accident noir dilemma.
Don Alberto
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.
Ramón Jiménez, Leonor's father
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Gabriel Fuentes
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
Jefe de los bandidos
Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
Señor Martínez
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Señor Cura
Young widower wants a new mommy for his preschool daughter. So to speak.
Eleuterio Covarrubias
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
José
Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.
Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where she discovers Virgin Guadalupe and the legend about her apparitions in that place. Marita doesn't behave properly in school, and her teacher always has a punishment for the girl. She doesn't like school, and she doesn't want to return to school anymore. Besides, Marita's worried about her animals, like a cow who doesn't produce milk. The girl asks many miracles of Virgin Guadalupe, one of them is to not have to go to school. During a visit to the Basilica, Marita hears the Virgin's voice, and this could be the beginning of a responsible life for the girl, like to study and to be a good child.
Don Inocencio
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
Javier
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
Don Francisco Cabrero (Don Paco)
Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
Don José
Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life.
Comandante
Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing.
Col. Triana
The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
Don Chente
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star runs the emotional gamut as Gabriela, who rises from the depths of poverty to the heights of Mexican society as a much-sought-after courtesan. Eventually, however, Gabriela proves that she is still true to her peasant heritage by casting her lot with the rebels in the 1916 Mexican civil war. Pedro Armendariz co-stars as Felipe, the charismatic rebel leader who wins Gabriela's heart - and inadvertently causes her downfall. La escondida is stunningly photographed by the late, great Gabriel Figueroa.
Pedro Romero
The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.
Diputado Gómez
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
Peralta
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 one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Señor cura
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
Andrés
Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts in town.
Tránsito, Andrés' brother
A small-town woman with psychic sensitivities gets tangled up in the blood-feud between two families and in a romantic rivalry with her best friend.
Fiscal
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.
Don Anselmo
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Don Manuel
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Benjamín Aguilar
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
Jefe bomberos
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 fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
Doctor
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
Music teacher gets all tangled up with a nightclub singer, after seeing his students ogling her advertisements.
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind.
Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.
Doctor
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Doctor José Quintero
Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications.
Col. Domingo Vargas
The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
Macario Carrola
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.
El Rana
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.
Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.
Señor Pradera
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
Juan de Dios
The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
Sobrino
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Compadre de Sanchitos (uncredited)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Don Fernando Loja
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
Serafín
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
Manuel de la Colina y Bárcena
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
El Gillet
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Reportero (uncredited)
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 serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.
Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at stake.
Miguel Anzorena (uncredited)
A small disparate group of people are aboard a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires.
Axcaná González
Argentine woman stranded in plane-crash, falls for Mexican plantation-owner.
Mexican movie
San Juan Bautista
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
A 1941 Mexican film.
Set in the 1820s; an unhappy love affair and some family problems drive a young gentleman to banditry.
