Writer
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
Writer
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
Writer
The love of two young people is prevented by the envy and resentment of a greedy man and his evil son.
Adaptation
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Writer
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Writer
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.
Himself
Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.
Story
The story revolves around Laura, a white singer, and Angustias, her longtime black friend, with both mothers dedicated to the education of their daughters: Alicia and Roberta. Trouble ensues when Laura’s daughter, Alicia, falls in love with Ricardo, a young black medical student.
Writer
Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos.
Writer
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
Writer
A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.
Adaptation
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
Writer
A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
Dialogue
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.
Screenplay
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.
Screenplay
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
Adaptation
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...
Screenplay
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
Writer
Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Screenplay
Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.
Screenplay
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Screenplay
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Adaptation
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Story
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Writer
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Writer
A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...
Writer
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Adaptation
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Screenplay
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.
Writer
Writer
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.
Writer
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
Adaptation
Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result.
Writer
A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
Writer
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
Writer
The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
Writer
Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
Writer
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
Writer
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
Writer
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Adaptation
Anthology film, four episodes.
Writer
Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
Screenplay
A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.
Writer
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
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Story
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.
Story
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Screenplay
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Adaptation
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Screenplay
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
Adaptation
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Writer
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
Adaptation
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
Adaptation
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.
Screenplay
Mexican feature film
Writer
Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.
Writer
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.