Don Zebedeo
In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins to determine who is responsible for removing it
Don Macario
Trujillo Esq.
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Don Alejo
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
Gonzalo de Osanto
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
Don Abundio
Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Investigator Valdez
A world-famous stage performer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting.
Abuelito Morán
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
Adaptation
Mauricio Garcés plays a composer who tries to seduce several women. The actor performs the song "Soy tan hermoso", which became a popular hit a t the time.
Remake of an archetypal 1940s melodrama about parents sacrificing their own well-being for the convenience of ungrateful adult children.
Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.
A group of college girls are traveling through Guanajuato, Mexico when their car suddenly breaks down. In an attempt to get a male passer-by to help them, the girls (led by the voluptuous Rosa Maria Vazquez) strip down to their bras and panties. At first, they are snubbed by a gay couple, but eventually the young women receive help from a local 'farm worker' (Dominican actor Andres Garcia). From here, the coeds are taken to a local town, where they are mistaken for a group of strippers. To tantalize would-be beaus, the young lovelies parade around their apartment complex in bikinis. The coeds' leader begins to fall in love with the 'farm worker,' but it is later revealed that he is not what he appears to be.
Father Javier
A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.
Don Agustín
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Youth-com romance between a North American tourist and a young Mexican doctor.
Doctor Michel
The women of a brothel adopt a foundling baby.
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Western comedy. Stranger-in-town falls into an ambivalent love/hate relationship with the sheriff.
Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before discovering that he's the one.
Licenciado Antonio Aguirre
A mature woman looks for a judge to hand over after having murdered a man and recounts everything that happened. Sequel to "Historia de un canalla".
Don Fer
A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Lic. Antonio Aguirre
A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him.
Daniel's Father
Daniel, the leader of a criminal youth gang, views new guy Victor first as a threat, then as possible addition to his gang. When Victor refuses, but sets his eyes on Daniel's Sister Nancy, Daniel orders her to get close to Victor so she can persuade him to join the gang. Daniel does not expect that instead the relationship with Victor makes Nancy longing for a life without crime. A juvenile-delinquent-crime-musical!
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.
Don César Pedrero
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
A crew of happy ne'er do wells comes to town to gamble and party during the town fair... but then their leader gets serious about a local girl and about finding the rustlers who are stealing all of her daddy's horses.
Director
California, 1840s. Wealthy landowner César de Echagüe, secretly acting as El Coyote, the legendary masked hero, continues his fight against the injustices and abuses suffered by the Hispanic population at the hands of the US Army.
Co-Producer
California, 1840s. Wealthy landowner César de Echagüe, secretly acting as El Coyote, the legendary masked hero, continues his fight against the injustices and abuses suffered by the Hispanic population at the hands of the US Army.
Emigre returns to Spain to visit family; reunites with long-lost illegitimate son and rescues his brother-in-law from a gold-digging gigolette.
Director
Emigre returns to Spain to visit family; reunites with long-lost illegitimate son and rescues his brother-in-law from a gold-digging gigolette.
Co-Producer
California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.
Director
California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.
Nouveau-riche industrialist returns to Spain after 20 years in Mexico and discovers that his adopted son wants to marry into an aristocratic family and is trying to disguise his family history. Meanwhile, the young man's birth mother also shows up, and....
Director
Nouveau-riche industrialist returns to Spain after 20 years in Mexico and discovers that his adopted son wants to marry into an aristocratic family and is trying to disguise his family history. Meanwhile, the young man's birth mother also shows up, and....
Dr. Antonio Arenas
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Ernesto del Valle
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling.
Director
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling.
Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.
Juan Manuel
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
Amanda, a widow, is a beautiful woman that finds comfort seducing every man in her path, including her daughters' boyfriends.
Director
Juan, a fisherman, finds a beautiful baby girl inside his boat. He and his wife take in the baby as their own child and name her Maria del Mar. Years later, after she turns 20, everything changes.
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Director
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Director
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Quintín Guzmán
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
juez Alejandro Luque
Saloon singer Aurora is sentenced to two years in prison for a prostitution conviction. When she gets out of prison, she gets romantically involved with Alejandro Luque, the respected judge who tried her case. Aurora and her boyfriend, el Rizos, plan to blackmail the judge. But Aurora gets a change of heart as she comes to know the judge better.
Lucas Fortunato Sobrales / Don Laureano Santos
An exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
Don Guadalupe
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.
Don Gastón Garza y Garza
Don Chema García
Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
Ernesto
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
Cruz Treviño Martínez de la Garza
An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
High-society comedy in the screwball vein.
Director
High-society comedy in the screwball vein.
Cruz Treviño Martínez de la Garza
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.
Producer
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!
Ramiro de la Mata
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!
Director
A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. For awhile. And then...
The story of a family with nine children and the conflicts that exist between them.
Don Roberto Cifuentes
Mom and dad make sacrifices for the sake of their adult children. And then more sacrifices. And more.
Rodrigo Cataño
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Ponciano Robles
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.
Don Esteban Velasco
Concentration Camp survivor tries to start over with a new identity.
Roberto Montes
An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.
Director
Widower with three grown daughters wants to go out and mack on chorus girls and stuff with his Argentine best-buddy.
Don Germán
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.
Director
The story of a single mother and her children, and the lives that cross their paths.
The story of a single mother and her children, and the lives that cross their paths.
Claudio Herrera
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
Alfredo Velasco
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Don Jesús Flores
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
Director
Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.
Adaptation
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.
Don Amable Corcuera
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.
Director
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.
Comedy set in Spanish boarding house.
Director
Comedy set in Spanish boarding house.
Simple small-town guy's life is turned upside-down when he seems to perform a miraculous cure for a blind man.
Director
Simple small-town guy's life is turned upside-down when he seems to perform a miraculous cure for a blind man.
Don José Rosales
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.
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
Director
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
Producer
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Plácido Bueno
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
don Francisco
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
Writer
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.
Don Rodolfo
Comedy/drama about railroad workers.
Cantabria’s second independent production was very successful in the cinemas of L.A.’s Mexican neighborhoods, although the narrative actually takes place in Spanish Harlem in New York City. On the eve of Columbus Day celebrations, the boxer Mateo returns home from a stint in prison and realizes that his wife is pregnant, and he can’t be the father. His wife Blanca has in fact been having a secret affair with her sister Lola’s fiancé, Claudio. Mateo confronts his wife, but she refuses to name the father, leading to tragic results.
El ogro (Nicanor López)
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
Rafael Torrecilla
A 1938 film.
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.
Doctor Armando Torrescano
Irrational jealousy blossoms into full-blown psychosis.
