Raúl Lavista

Birth : 1913-10-31, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 1980-10-19

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Raúl Lavista

Movies

The Black Legend of Mexican Cinema
Music
During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built throughout the country upon crime and corruption. Ever since, Uncle Miguel was ridiculed and eventually forgotten, but it is certain that his proclaim announced the separation of Mexican cinema and its audience. Discoveries may be found in the films made by Miguel, and bringing back to life these moving pictures might recover this history that was never told, a story that is almost lost and that Contreras Torres himself tried to pass on through his writings in The Black Book of Mexican Cinema.
Everyone's Hell so Feared
Music
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
Johnny Chicano
Music
A young peasant falls in love with his American boss, creating nothing but trouble for his Mexican girlfriend and his family.
Adriana del Rio, actriz
Music
The Holy War
Music
Through the humble potter Celso we will know one of the most dramatic events in the history of Mexico in the twentieth century, in which the federal government and Catholic believers, fought a bloody struggle. Time passes and the Church and the State agree to peace. Celso and his companions are rejected by both sides.
Broken Flag
Music
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
New World
Music
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
Drizzle
Original Music Composer
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
Paper Flowers
Music
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
La Güera Rodríguez
Music
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
Cuartelazo
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Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
The Fungi Man
Original Music Composer
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.
Survive!
Original Music Composer
Sixteen plane crash survivors stranded in the Andes turn to cannibalism to stay alive. Based on a true story.
Blacker Than the Night
Conductor
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
Blacker Than the Night
Original Music Composer
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon
Music
1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcome numerous adventures in which their lives are at serious risk.
Sangre derramada
Music
Rapine
Original Music Composer
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident
The Braid
Music
A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.
Before the Corpse of a Leader
Music
A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.
La isla de los hombres solos
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Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Viento salvaje
Music
A drama, western film.
Eva and Dario
Music
Two young people are in love, but at the same time very confused about sex, love and the world.
A Twelve Year Old Pirate
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In the sixteenth Captain Morgan pirate ship is sunk by the Spanish fleet. He and four companions make it to an island, but the beaches are occupied by the Spanish. The child Erick, son of John Goldark, King of the Pirates, who died trying to save his nephews Lady Harold and the Spanish prisoners, helping them into the jungle. Grateful Morgan and his friends save the captives. When it seems that children are lost flying the Spanish magazine. Then fight with cannibals and are again caught by the Spanish, but are saved by another pirate ship.
The Innocent
Original Music Composer
The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim.
La noche de los mil gatos
Original Music Composer
Millionaire playboy Hugo flies around Acapulco in his private helicopter to pick up sexy young women. He whisks them away to his secluded old castle, where he wines and dines them. With the aid of his bald, mute little helper, Dorgo, he kills his dates, keeping their heads in a crystal cage and feeding their chopped up body parts to his 1,000-strong army of bloodthirsty, flesh hungry cats.
Doña Macabra
Original Music Composer
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Arruza
Original Music Composer
Eight years in the making, Boetticher’s portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmaker’s own ambivalence about the titular matador’s triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.
Mi niño Tizoc
Music
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
The Incredible Professor Zovek
Original Music Composer
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
The Desire in Autumn
Music
The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom she can share the monies, she invites her best friend, Clara, to move into her home and enjoy the wealth with her. All fares well until Elena falls in love with a male suitor - and thus threatens to jeopardize Clara's place in the household and her share of the spoils. Indignant, Clara vows to do everything in her power to prevent this new romance from blossoming.
The Enemy Blood
Original Music Composer
A group of people suffering from mental retardation, blindness and physical malformations work in a traveling circus.
Fallaste corazón
Music
Ugly-duckling older guy falls in love with a beautiful young woman. Offering her a marriage of convenience, to give her baby a father, might be a way to win her affection... Ya think?
Rubí
Music
Rubi steals the fiancé from her millionaire friend Maribel, leaves her city and gets married in New York.
Tres noches de locura
Music
Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.
The Young Animals
Music
A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
Unethical Behaviour
Music
A family in extreme poverty is forced to make a series of sacrifices in order to survive.
La trinchera
Original Music Composer
Andante
Music
A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Music
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
The Book of Stone
Music
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
Autopsy of a Ghost
Music
Satan offers a weary ghost a chance for redemption through true love.
Even the Wind Is Afraid
Original Music Composer
A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
Chewing Gum
Music
Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them
There are not Crosses in the Sea
Music
A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.
Dos pintores pintorescos
Original Music Composer
Two house-painters go to art school. Also bad guys try to kill them.
La soldadera
Original Music Composer
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
Que hombre tan sin embargo
Music
Seemingly at random, a hobo dude attaches himself to an upper-middle-class family and starts influencing them for the better in their day-to-day activities
Adios cuñado
Original Music Composer
The classic family with more sisters and one brother who has to deal with all the naughty words about being the brother in law of many.
Dos meseros majaderos
Original Music Composer
Comic duo are stalked by a serial killer.
La recta final
Music
A jockey is pushed by his former trainer, in order to win one last race after his downfall into alcohol and depression.
El señor doctor
Original Music Composer
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
Adventure at the Center of the Earth
Music
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.
Tarahumara (Further and farther)
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An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
Simon of the Desert
Original Music Composer
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Llanto por Juan Indio
Original Music Composer
The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death.
El Padrecito
Original Music Composer
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
Dile que la quiero
Original Music Composer
Teenager covers for his no-count older brother. Ice-cream parlors, rock-n-roll dances, football games, jalopies and racing cars. Also tragedy.
Autumn Days
Original Music Composer
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
The Paper Man
Original Music Composer
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
La Bandida
Original Music Composer
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
Heaven and Earth
Music
Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
Original Music Composer
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
Original Music Composer
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
Santo vs. the Zombies
Music
Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.
The Exterminating Angel
Original Music Composer
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
My Son, the Hero
Music Director
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
My Son, the Hero
Original Music Composer
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
Then God Named It Earth
Sound
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
The White Rose
Original Music Composer
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Conquistador de la luna
Original Music Composer
Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon!
For the Love of Mike
Original Music Composer
An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
The Shadow of the Strongman
Original Music Composer
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.
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Original Music Composer
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
Macario
Original Music Composer
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Infierno de almas
Music
Mauricio flees from the police and takes refuge in the apartment of Ivonne, who gives him blood to save his life. Carlos the policeman who is in love with her, finds Mauricio's passport and has the inspector offer 10 thousand pesos to whoever turns him in. Mauricio confesses to Ivonne that he is innocent of the crime, and asks her to marry him.
La Cucaracha
Original Music Composer
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.
Sube y Baja
Music
It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
The Smile of the Virgin
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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.
Enchanted Island
Original Music Composer
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
El gran premio
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Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
Land of Men
Music
On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.
El bolero de Raquel
Original Music Composer
The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
The Big Boodle
Original Music Composer
Tough guy fights gangsters and counterfeiters in pre-Castro Cuba.
Tom Thumb
Music
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
Los amantes
Original Music Composer
Mexican feature film
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Original Music Composer
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Tizoc
Original Music Composer
The story of an indigenous who gave his life for the love of a white woman, whom he confused, because of her beauty, with Maria the virgin, fighting against the society, the prejudices, and the race.
The Hidden One
Music
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.
Arm in Arm Down the Street
Original Music Composer
Unhappy young married couple argue and almost break up their marriage.
A Life in the Balance
Original Music Composer
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
El medallón del crimen
Original Music Composer
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
X Murderer
Music
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
Tailored gentleman
Original Music Composer
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
The River and Death
Original Music Composer
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.
La gitana blanca
Original Music Composer
Wuthering Heights
Music
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Return to Youth
Music
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.
The Witch
Original Music Composer
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
The Boy and the Fog
Music
Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Music
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
El señor fotógrafo
Original Music Composer
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Mujeres que trabajan
Music
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
La cobarde
Music
A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.
Por el mismo camino
Music
On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker.
The Brute
Music
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
The Revived Monster
Original Music Composer
Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora (miroslava) who is ordered by her boss (Wagner) to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling (Linares Rivas). Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel (Navarro) by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
Rostros olvidados
Music
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
El Bombero Atómico
Original Music Composer
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.
A Woman Without Love
Original Music Composer
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.
The Absentee
Music
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
Night Falls
Original Music Composer
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
Si yo fuera diputado
Original Music Composer
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Original Music Composer
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
Women's prison
Music
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.
Full Spead Ahead
Original Music Composer
A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.
My General's Wives
Music
The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
Crimen y castigo
Music
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
In the Palm of Your Hand
Original Music Composer
A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat? Perhaps the greatest thriller ever made in Mexico, starring Arturo de Córdova and Leticia Palma.
Girls in Uniform
Music
Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.
Susana
Original Music Composer
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
Apartment house
Music
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
By the False Door
Original Music Composer
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
La loca de la casa
Original Music Composer
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
Over the Waves
Music
The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
The Man Without a Face
Original Music Composer
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Thou Shalt not Covet thy Son's Wife
Original Music Composer
An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
The Black Sheep
Original Music Composer
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
Confidencias de un ruletero
Original Music Composer
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
The Seminarian
Original Music Composer
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
Felipe de Jesús
Original Music Composer
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
The Woman I Lost
Music
A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.
La dama del velo
Music
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
El dolor de los hijos
Music
The story of a family with nine children and the conflicts that exist between them.
Cuando los padres se quedan solos
Music
Mom and dad make sacrifices for the sake of their adult children. And then more sacrifices. And more.
A Family Like Many Others
Original Music Composer
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Angelitos negros
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Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
Rosenda
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A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Sofia
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A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
The Three Huastecos
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This is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
Women in the Night
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During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
When the Brave Cry
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A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
The Other
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A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
La mujer de todos
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A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Bugambilia
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In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
Flor de durazno
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City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
Twilight
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Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.
Another Dawn
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The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
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In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
Hooray for Women!
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Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Morenita clara
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Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
Qué hombre tan simpático
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Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Story of a Great Love
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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.
El conde de Montecristo
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Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
La gallina clueca
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Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
La casa del rencor
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A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
El hijo de Cruz Diablo
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A 1941 film directed by Vicente Oroná.
Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
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A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
El rápido de las 9.15
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Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
You’re Missing the Point
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Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
The Midnight Ghost
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A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.
Viviré otra vez
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Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
Harvest of Hate
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A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
La canción del huérfano
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A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,