Don Antonio
Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.
Don Filo
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Two salesmen compete for top honors at the company they represent.
Mike
The arrival of a new school-teacher to a small town triggers various large and small upheavals, including the Police Chief's total meltdown into raging psychosis.
A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife.
Subsistance-farmer emigrates to the city in search of opportunity, loses contact with his wife and children.
A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.
Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two daughters are competing over a boyfriend.
Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.
An east-coast financier is touring the far west via stagecoach; in Nogales AZ, his son is kidnapped and three rival groups of black hats try to profit from the situation.
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Retired singer with a history of mental illness acts as housemother for a gaggle of young adult 'friends' who exploit and disrespect her.
Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.
Don José Maldonado
Decadent, failing Mexico City family get life-lessons from rural visitors.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Dr. Thomas
In the service of Satan, a murderous vampire is turning wrestlers into his unwitting thrall, and it's up to Mil Máscaras and Superzan to stop him and save the world.
Adaptation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.
Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him. Twenty years later...
Based on a real event, the action takes place in Havana in 1931, during the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. Rachel, a young French showgirl, is murdered during an orgy involving personalities of the bourgeoisie and politics. The tabloid press echoes the story to divert public attention from the serious social problems that affect the country. The governors on their part order to silence the case to protect the characters involved.
Young man returns to his childhood home-town, planning to git the people that killed his father.
Romantic conflicts set against a Mexican Revolution backdrop.
Mama's four girls are all newlyweds or engaged to be married. Four hubby/fiances plus inlaws = wacky complications.You betcha.
Count De Molinero
The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
Goyo
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
Lorenzo Mantilla
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
Cowboy detective investigates two murders.
M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.
Villa's regiment demobilizes at the end of the Revolution, but the ruling faction in the provisional government isn't eager to see them reintegrate into civilian society.
Short-lived superhero-adventure series. One sequel.
Inspector Ansaldo
Super-detective muscle dude in tights vs a criminal mastermind who doses women with ugly serum to make them commit crimes.
Walter Johnson
Bad woman conspires with young lover to kill her mature husband.
Francisco Vaca del Monte
Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Inspector Canales
The women of a brothel adopt a foundling baby.
Crooked dude schemes to deprive stepdaughter of her inheritance after her mother dies.
Campesino with leadership qualities is indecisive about whether he should join the Revolution or concentrate on improving conditions at his farm, also about whether he cares about the nice girl he grew up with or the fancy woman who runs the local brothel. Most of his plot points don't come to a head until after the revolution's over, and then after General Huerta's coup.
Inspector Villegas
When Santo beat to Estrangulador, one of his strongest enemies, thought not ever see it, but thanks to Tor returns to avenge the death of Santo.
When criminals kidnap her brother and force her to secretly exchange their counterfeit dollars for real ones, bank cashier Rosa looks to an unassuming office boy named Julio to help her pull it off. But Rosa's buttoned-up bank manager boyfriend can't help but notice that something suspicious is going on, so he resolves to get to the bottom of it. Armando Silvestre, Irma Dorantes and Carlos Montesco star in this classic crime drama.
Rodríguez (as Carlos Lopez Moctezuma)
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.
Inspector Villegas
Santo battles the Strangler.
Don Celorio Martínez
An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
Wandering-cowboy-hero, 1960s style, tries to borrow some prestige from classic 1940s ranchera movies & music.
Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.
Pedro
A young man is executed for a murder he didn't commit. His brother shows up to clear his name and see that proper justice is done.
The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death.
A rare and impossible to find Mexican adventure / fantasy / horror.
Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan."
Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards.
B-movie western, sequel to El solitario.
The bad guy's trying to push through a land-speculation deal and force his sister to marry someone against her wishes. The good guy interferes.
Professor Abramov
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
Ravelo
Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.
don Pepe
Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes.
Professor Velez
Jungle adventure about the search for a lost treasure.
Zorroesque adventure pitting two swordsmen against a newly-appointed governor who wastes no time in displaying his despotic tendencies. Sequel to En El Viejo California.
Controlling papa won't let his daughters have boyfriends.
Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved.
Don Néstor Ramírez
A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.
Itinerant gunslinger poses as local gal's fiance to protect her from an itinerant blackhat.
A sympathetic elder docsplains life to a teenaged girl in his neighborhood.
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
Juan
A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
Feature on the adventures that develop the most perfect of false priest.
Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.
Don Juan
Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.
Gerardo Montes
A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
Don Fermín
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Bronco Joe; Richard Martin
Bank-robber hiding out after a heist discovers that half the world knows where he is. Can he finesse some way out of his predicament?
Diputado Emilio Olivier Fernández
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
Don Federico Guillén
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.
Joao
Family builds a houseboat and sets sail down the Amazon. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.
Fierro
The second chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
Don Miguel
Julián Rosales
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...
Fierro
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
don Mariano
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
Directed by Alfonso Corona Blake
Fierro
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.
After her father has been murdered, the beautiful but allegedly insane Isabella lives in the house of her two nephews. A scenarist in need of inspiration walks on the beach and slowly unravels a series of murders.
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
Enrique
Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get complicated because it had not yet been cashed. This will force him to try to forge the signature and eliminate any suspect, including his girlfriend Clara, who works in a law office and who talked him about the check. Police tracks the case, but by chance Pedrito, the police inspector's son, is also investigating on his own.
Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.
Eduardo Vargas Peña
A marital conflict reaches the courts and becomes public comment.
Alcalde Harrison García
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.
Don Gregorio
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...
Don Gonzalo
An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love but things don't go as he planned.
Don Félix
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Doctor
The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness is her own doom. Over the next two days, she is attracted to George, a local drunk who does odd jobs for brothels and dances grotesquely for tourists in exchange for drinks. George has his own dark secret, a tragedy he caused that leaves him with a death wish. In assisting the local doctor to cope with the epidemic, these two emotional cripples enable each other to rediscover reasons to live and to love.
Police Chief
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Don Carlos Molina
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Don Pedro
A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
Playboy uses satanic powers to score with the babes.
Quintana
On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker.
David Acosta
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.
Small-town rom-com from a female POV.
Mayor Felipe García, el gusano
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.
Sr. Salcedo
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
César Villa
Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.
Don Miguel Navarro
Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for independence.
Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
Delegado Porfirio Marín
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Avila
Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
Don Macabeo
Boy witnesses a murder, killer terrorizes and exploits him.
Jorge Villagran
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal lifestyle... in the same gang that twenty years earlier murdered his father OMG. Meanwhile his sister. Meanwhile his mother.
Historical drama, romantic triangle plus war/espionage intrigue during the Maximillian vs Juarez conflict of the 1860s.
Don Antonio
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Mexican movie
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Comandante Pepe Morán
Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.
Tony
Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.
Three soldiers desert the Revolution to put a plan into action to reclaim the estate that was usurped from one of them. Plan involves kidnapping the usurper's daughter...
Sr. Carrasco
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
Young woman has to choose between three potential husbands, so she leaves town for awhile to sing for a living and sort out her feelings.
Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.
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.
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.
Sgt. Genovevo de la Garza
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
Army officer goes undercover to investigate political unrest in a border state.
Regino Sandoval
Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.
Ibáñez
A small disparate group of people are aboard a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires.
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
Esteban Gómez (as Carlos L. Moctezuma)
Sr. Rosas
A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.
A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his own wife is involved.
Ernesto
Mexican movie
A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.
Col. José Francisco Ardavin
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
Farmhand moves to the city to be with his mother. He falls in love with the daughter of the rich family for whom she works as housekeeper, and decides to take advantage of his skill as a bullfighter to earn money and status enough to be able to court her.
Don Macario Carrera
Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
María Ángela's grandfather
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
Romantic triangle, land-owner and two employees.
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...
Third in a series; flashbacks remind us of the beef El Charro had with Carlos from his home town. While they move toward a final showdown, Carlos and his new evil buddy Rodolfo kill a couple more people just for kicks.
Rich city family is close to bankruptcy; rich country cousins come to visit.
Baron Danglars
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
General José Tomás Boves
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
Matias Luis Riquelme
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
El Chulo
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
José Rosales (as Carlos L. Moctezuma)
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.
A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.
Luis Costilla
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
El curro (Luis Cervantes) (as C. Lopez Moctezuma)
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
Martí (as Carlos L. Moctezuma)
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.
Pepe
Comedy/drama about railroad workers.
(uncredited)
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
Musical romance set in 1880s Mexico.
Alberto de los Ríos
The paths of a young woman and her late husband's mistress cross without their knowing it, which causes much confusion for the two women and their new partners.
Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood... but he wants to join the army instead. Naughty uncle from Paris help him get out from under Mom's thumb.
