Gambler-horsethief-womanizer ends up hiding out in a church-run orphanage. Spiritual regeneration stuff happens.
In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.
Santos
姉がコロンビアで誘拐されたことを知った、女流作家ジョーン。姉から届いた1枚の地図を持って救出に向かうが、それはエメラルドの在り処を示す宝の地図だった!? 密林を舞台に繰り広げられるアクション・アドヴェンチャー。
Innocent trucker is blackmailed into transporting drugs from Tijuana to Guadalajara. He gets killed at a police checkpoint and his partners goes after the gangsters that exploited him. Part of the "Camelia La Texana"series.
Pre-teen, and his orphaned best-bud, live by their wits while his mom is serving a prison sentence.
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
Sttreet vendors get caught up in the beef between their wholesale supplier and one of his competitors.
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
After her family all are killed in a home invasion, young woman moves to the city, gets involved with a high-level drug-smuggling tycoon. And also a taxi driver.
Two brothers that run a trucking business get involved with ferrying undocumented immigrants into the US after rescuing a group of people from an unscrupulous gang that cheated them out of their traveling money.
Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...
Raange war between two feuding ranch families in the 1930s.
In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.
Pepe
A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possesses people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner.
Bustamante
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
Father
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.
Tomboy grows up, overalls to frilly pastel dresses. And even a husband.
Indio Felipe
Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
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.
Pedro
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
(uncredited)
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
Fisherman
Two young, millionaire couples are commemorating the birthday of one of them. Jealousy, desire and ambition will end in tragedy and a dead man - the waiter.
Young Mexican-American studies for his MD and triumphs as a professional wrestler while his brother and sister stagnate in the barrio.
Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.
(as José Chávez Trowe)
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
Camilo
In an old monastery in Mexico, the faith of all young aspiring priests is tested by the prior using psychoanalysis. During the process, young people manifest indecision, sexual problems (such as incest or homosexuality) and lack of faith.
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.
Cantina Bartender (as Jose Chavez)
「おもいでの夏」のG・グライムズを主役に、ファッション・フォト出身のD・リチャーズが、西部劇の世界にチャレンジした初監督作。ざらついた映像やセピア・トーンの映像が光る。
カウボーイを夢見る16歳の少年が、大人たちに交じって、生きるか死ぬかの厳しい現実を体験し、成長していくまでを描く異色の西部劇。テキサスからコロラド州へと牛を運ぶカウボーイのボスに頼み込み、コックの助手として仲間に加えてもらった少年ベン。ところが、大事な拳銃と馬を盗まれたり、見張り中に馬泥棒に襲われたりとまったく役に立たず、ボスに故郷へと帰されそうになるが…。
Luis González
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.
Celerino Tamalantes
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
El Toronjo
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.
Horacio
メキシコを舞台に、ひょんなことから出会ったスゴ腕ガンマンの流れ者と秘密を抱えた尼僧が、一緒に旅をしながら褒賞金目的の戦いに手を組んで活躍する姿を描いた西部劇。
流れ者のホーガンは、三人の男に乱暴されそうになっている尼僧サラを助けた。メキシコの革命騒ぎを利用して大金を稼ごうとしていたホーガンは、フランス軍に追われているサラと共に、革命派のもとへやってくる。そしてフランス軍の輸送列車を襲撃する計画を請け負うが……。凄腕ガンマンのくせに、妙に色っぽい尼僧には手を出せないイーストウッドがオカシイ。憎めない女を演じさせたら天下一品のマクレーンがここでも魅力を発揮している。
Villista (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
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.
Juan Jose
バイオレンス映画の巨匠サム・ペキンパー監督が、20世紀初頭のメキシコを舞台に滅びゆくアウトローたちの姿を描いた傑作西部劇。1913年、アメリカ・テキサスでの銀行強盗に失敗したパイクら強盗団はメキシコに逃走する。旧友ソーントンら賞金稼ぎに追われる中、メキシコ政府のマパッチ将軍の依頼で米軍用列車から武器を強奪するパイクたちだったが、マパッチの裏切りに遭い、仲間を人質に取られてしまう……。スローモーションに細かいカットを挿入するペキンパーのアクション演出は後続に大きな影響を与えた。出演はウィリアム・ホールデン、アーネスト・ボーグナイン。
Backwards fishing village is home to a widow and her teenaged daughter. Neighbors suspect the mother of having murdered her husband. A tourist in town gets it into his head to put the smooth big city moves on both women. And the-e-en...
Antonito
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
A sex killer is on the loose.
El Bronco
A 1968 film.
Bandido
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."
Chanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a gang that extracts uranium.
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.
Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can't end well...
Revolutionary
1917年、メキシコ革命の最中。テキサス油田の持ち主グラントは、妻マリアを革命派のリーダーに誘拐され、多額の身代金を要求される。グラントは妻を奪い返すため、戦いのエキスパートを雇うことを決断する。
Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets Anita, a young aristocrat to whom Frank attempted to rob. And because she feels sympathy for him, the boy will have the opportunity to change his life and leave the country to make a deal with a rich heir, Fernando de Ponce, which proposes Rene to supplant him before his old aunt, who does not know him.
Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, there are can-can girls.
Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series.
Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright.
Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse.
Isidro Martínez
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.
Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still wants revenge... but doesn't recognize him. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend, now a widow, needs help protecting her property and her person from the predatory owner of a neighboring ranch.
Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.
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.
Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
A South American expedition is in search of fortune thought to be hidden in an Lost Aztec city. While trudging through the jungles the main character in the story becomes detached from the group. He develops a fever and in a desperate attempt to cool his fever, he gorges himself on some jungle fruit.
Don Chucho
The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.
B-movie western, sequel to El solitario.
Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up 'overnight'.
Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
Taxista (uncredited)
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...
Bandido
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.
Pueblerino
A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
Another Cowboy-Justice-Hero. One-shot, not part of a series.
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
After being gunned down in a bar-fight, a guy reappears in town looking for revenge on his murderer.
A man and his wife discover they are in danger when they hear reports of a Yeti that lives on a nearby volcano is on the prowl.
Hermano Rivera
A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.
A yeti-like monster is stalking the mountains of rural Mexico, sometimes displaying the powers of hypnosis. It ultimately plays a part in destroying two shady characters.
Don Pedro (uncredited)
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
A sympathetic elder docsplains life to a teenaged girl in his neighborhood.
A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
Five cowboy avengers avenging. Cowboyishly.
A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned.
Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.
Brujo
どうしようもない半端者が、妻の愛によって真の“価値ある男”になるまでを描いたヒューマン・ドラマ。三船敏郎が主人公のメキシコ人役で出演。
Asaltante (uncredited)
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Snow masses pile up in abundance on the deep snow-covered slopes. The wind has created bizarre snowdrifts on the steep mountain ridges, and further below, the Swiss pine carry the weight of this sparkling splendor. The Arlberg is the embodiment of an idyllic winter and the cradle of alpine skiing. However, this famous ski resort that connects Tyrol with Vorarlberg, offers a lot more than expected.
Young woman disguised as a man sets out to kill two brothers that she believes cheated her father out of his property. She discovers they were innocent of that, and takes a job on their farm, provoking some gender-fluid wooing confusion from both of them.
Peasant
Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.
Lupe Gómez
During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.
Bandits rob mail from stagecoach. First in series of two.
Two couples get their babies confused in the maternity ward. twenty years later, the children are both identical to the father... in the other family.
Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.
Rafael
野盗一味に牛耳られ、蓄えをすべてもぎとられる村民たちが、流れ者のガンマンを雇い野盗との戦いを始めるが……。黒澤明監督の『七人の侍』にインスパイアされた傑作西部劇。
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
Three con-artists chase after the absconded girlfriend of one and butt heads with two female swindlers working the same marks.
After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.
Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
Venezuelan guy and Mexican rancher get competitive toward each other -- mostly over "the girl".
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Primer sargento
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Chief of Detectives
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
Pancho Villa
Ferrocarrilero asesinado (uncredited)
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
Viejo Rodríguez
An adventure thriller directed by Fernando Méndez.
Capataz (uncredited)
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.
Appointed by the dictator Huerta, a local official tries to use his authority to pressure a young woman into marrying him. Meanwhile, counter-revolution is brewing.
Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
Masked hero on horseback. One in a series.
Prison Male Nurse
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
Detective de policía (uncredited)
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.
Col. Martinez
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
Compadre Medina
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.
Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.
Jose Garcia
A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
Fidel
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.
Tony
After serving a prison sentence, a guy goes after the gang-leader who framed him.
(uncredited)
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
Manuel
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Pedro
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests
Pueblerino (uncredited)
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then...
Velador
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
Saloon singer creates conflict between several potential boyfriends.
Jugador
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
Portero (uncredited)
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
Pirate
An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.
Fan de Lilia
(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.
Mexican feature film
Policía (uncredited)
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
Amigo de Pedro (uncredited)
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.
Policía (uncredited)
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.
Soldado (uncredited)
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Esbirro de Pepe (uncredited)
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.
Prisoner (uncredited)
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
(uncredited)
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
Cliente en bar (uncredited)
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.
Prisionero (uncredited)
Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930 (he made only a few musicals in the interim), "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches!
