Adaptation
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.
Director
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.
Director
The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
Adaptation
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
Director
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
Adaptation
A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.
Director
A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.
Director
Local oligarch has the hots for a small-town schoolteacher; to escape from the problems he causes them, she and her boyfriend both move to Mexico City... but they lose contact with each other, and complications.
Adaptation
Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.
Director
Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.
Director
Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
Screenplay
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Story
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Director
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Screenplay
Mexican romantic musical.
Director
Mexican romantic musical.
Adaptation
Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer.
Director
Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer.
Script
Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.
Director
Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.
Screenplay
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
Director
Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...
Director
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
Adaptation
Director
Director
Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.
Director
Rivalries and romances among bullfighters.
Director
We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.
Director
Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking them to their destination.
Director
Cantinflas will face a thief who enters his house while he sleeps.
Director
He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" (Covered Eye).
Director
Ensemble-comedy set in a lower-middle-class apartment complex.
Production Design
The film of the thousand dancers, of the enchanting songs, of the sets that are splurge of luxury and beauty.
Set Decoration
A 1938 film.
Art Direction
Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
Art Direction
Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.
Art Direction
Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...
Writer
The bride of a Federale colonel rejects him on their wedding night, and begins extramarital relations with a strapping young leader of the peasant revolution against which the colonel is fighting.
Production Design
Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail.
Set Designer
Costume-drama, 1840s: bandits prey on the town of Yautepec for over twenty years.
Art Direction
A 1933 film.
Suicide Prisoner
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
Art Direction
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
Writer
A 1932 film.
Art Direction
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
Production Design
