This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
Pedro and Cati live in the San Gregorio township. They must fight for their love despite the over-protection and fears of their families.
Voz
Una prostituta callejera camina levantando hombres por las calles de Paris, hasta que conoce a un estanciero criollo que la enamora y la trae de vuelta a su país.
Relates the life of one of Puerto Rico's most loved and revered composer and songwriter, Rafael Hernández.
Del cerro de Tepeyac surgen los más extraordinarios milagros.
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Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Cura
Basada en una historia de Luis Spota, la película gira alrededor de las vicisitudes de un pepenador mudo que al encontrar un billete de 10 000 pesos, desencadena la codicia de quienes lo rodean. Como recolector de basura encuentra un billete y le pide a una prostituta que tenga un hijo con él pero ella no accede.
Tourist's eye overview of some highlights of Mexican history and folk culture, all expressed through interpretive dance.
Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Señor cura
Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
Unscrupulous promoter creates hostilities that ruin the friendships between six young musicians.
Nightclub entertainer discovers the truth about her birth mother while making the right choice in her love life, choosing the good guy over the slimy, exploitative hoodlum.
Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man.
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
Restaurant/nightclub is sinking into bankruptcy and management team pull wacky shit to try to get back on their feet.
Three struggling musicians share an apartment.
Cinco socios deben encontrar la manera de ganar dinero para salvar su cabaret.
Himself
En un teatro de variedades se ha cometido un crimen, la policía tendrá que encontrar al asesino...
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Cantante
Daniel propone matrimonio a Teresa, madre de una pequeña. Pero ella no es viuda como él cree, ya que Guillermo, su marido está en la cárcel, quien comprensivo, le da el divorcio y le aconseja casarse con un buen hombre. Cuando Guillermo sale libre y va avisitar a su hija, haciéndose pasar por su tío. Daniel se da cuenta que es un buen hombre, y al descubrir que él y Teresa aún se quieren, renuncia a ella para que la familia completa pueda ser feliz.
Worker
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.
Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture.
Pedro, unemployed singer
En la víspera de fin de año, Bernardo, dueño de un periódico, discute con Gámez Rivera, su director. Como resultado de la discusión Bernardo ofrece un premio de diez mil pesos al reportero que traiga la mejor noticia de esa noche. Los reporteros salen a la calle para encontrarse con distintas historias, interpretadas por una multitud de estrellas del cine mexicano
Cantante
Una mujer hunde un cadáver en un lago; luego se enamora de un hombre idéntico al difunto.
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) tiene la cara destrozada desde pequeña, pero tiene una bonita figura y se cubre con su pelo la mitad del rostro. Es cantante y actúa en teatros de barriada. Marucha y Ramón son profesionales del delito.
Cantante
El consejo de un colegio de señoritas, en vista de los problemas económicos que afronta, organiza un concurso para encontrar a "El maestro más besable de México" para lo cual se apoya con la presentación de artistas populares como Tongolele, María Victoria, Pedro Vargas y otros. El elegido resulta ser Rafael, lo cual provoca el enojo de su esposa, Lilia. El maestro más besable debe hacer lo necesario si es que quiere apoyar la causa.
Debido a una confusión, Rafael se cree culpable de la muerte de Teresa. Su esposa Lilia junto con su hermano buscan a los verdaderos culpables.
Mexican feature film
Cantante
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.
The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
Pedro
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Cantante
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
Pedro
Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.
Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.
Musician
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Cantante
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
Himself - Singer
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.
Himself
Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.
Cantante
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Cantante
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
Pedro Vargas
Mexican romantic musical.
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Dos enamorados, una empleada y un estudiante, simulan ser ricos.
A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets!
Pedro
Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Cantante
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
Pedro
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
