Handicapped day-laborer crushes out on a ranchera singer, then has a chance to save her from ruffians. After that, he becomes a ward/employee of a Catholic orphanage and trains for lucha libre competition with an aging wrestler who mentors him.
Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
Controlling father stifles adult son's career plans, interferes with his love life...
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...
Banquero
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Don Fernando Carral
Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera.
Mexican feature film
Masked Avenger (Lone Ranger style) versus smugglers in a small fishing town.
Silvia's father wants to marry her off to Rafael who, out of jealousy, wants to finish off Juan. Silvia dresses up as Juan to save his skin.
Don Alvaro
Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman also named Marie, a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.
Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.
Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.
Roland Carter
The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.
Leandro Gómez
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
Sr. Colman
A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man who knows how to destroy him with a peculiar piece of music.
A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.
Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
(uncredited)
Masked rider leads a posse to defend their town from crimes related to appearances of a hanged man come back from the grave.
Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.
By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined
Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.
Woman has plastic surgery and reevaluates her relationships with husband and lover while pretending to be a different person.
Zorro imitation, first in a series.
Don Guillermo Espindola
Manuel, padre
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
Don Marcelino de la Llave
Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
Antonio
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
Director
Jailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border.
El Profesor
Jailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border.
Luis Figueroa
Germán Montalvo
Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines. His presence in the community will initiate a lot of changes. Ada Montalvo is a beautiful young woman with a great heart, whose strong personality wakes up the admiration of a good looking millionaire Ramón. She is the woman he has always dreamed of. However, for Ada he is nothing more than an intruder who has arrived to ruin the calm life of Taxco with his money, and she does not hide the contempt she feels towards him, even though the circumstances force her to marry him...
Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.
Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
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.
Señor López Rueda (uncredited)
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
Sad lonely spinster makes friends with a little boy in the park, ends up kidnapping him when she learns about how unloved and neglected he is at home. And then...
Miembro consejo banco
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?
Don Guillermo Fernández
Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.
Mexican feature film
Director
Mexican feature film
Médico hospital
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
In Havana, turn of the century, Maria Elena is seduced by a man who leaves her pregnant and abandoned. The girl's parents do not want their name tainted with dishonor see your daughter, so send it to a remote ranch. There, with the black nanny care Mama Dolores, born Alberto, whom the grandfather, Rafael, want you dead. Mother Dolores takes the small and educated with the help of a suitor of Maria Elena, when she enters a convent to wash their sin. Years pass, and Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
Poncio Pilatos
The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
Profesor Estrada
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend.
A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.
Inspector Manrique
Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.
Adaptation
A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
Don Lorenzo
A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
Dr. Perfecto Lozano
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. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
Ernesto Solar Fuentes
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
Custodio de prisión
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Don Alonso
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Fiscal
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Mago Krishnar
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.
After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.
After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
Struggling musician takes sympathy on a homeless woman and they build a life together.
Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.
Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?
Luigi Martino
Concentration Camp survivor tries to start over with a new identity.
Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.
Fabio
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Julio
Licenciado de la Fuente
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Poncio Pilatos
The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.
Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.
Milón
Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.
Pimento
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
After the ending of the War Of Independence, a Mexican officer goes roguish to get personal revenge on an enemy combatant who killed his father and oppressed his townfolk.
Sherlock Holmes
Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.
A European doctor, in self-imposed exile in some place like Borneo, obsesses crazily over a ruling-class white woman.
This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
Van Doeuvres
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
Paris
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
Dr. Trajano
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
Poncio Pilato
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
Floreal
A melodrama telling the story of Ricardo, a young bourgeois who flees from justice for a crime of passion. It was made during the Spanish Civil War.
Tanito
Manolo
A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup, joins the militias to fight for freedom.
Alfredo Flores
The famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the operatic stages to rebuild her marriage. Her husband, a heartless scoundrel, tries to swindle a large sum of money from her. But when his scam fails, he devises a plan to kidnap their daughter and get her mother to pay a ransom. Before the inevitable divorce of her parents, Mari-Tere, the child, is in an unexpected "no-man's-land", waiting for someone to love her.
Luis Candelas, the mythical bandit, just and generous, comes to the aid of a nobleman who saved his life. Adventure film directed by José Buchs.
