Ninón Sevilla

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.

A few years pass after Paulina Martinez gets married to Carlos Daniel. She has two loving step-children and a new child of her own with Carlos Daniel. Everything seems like a happy end to the original story. But, when Paulina goes to the doctor to check up on an exam, only the worst happens, she thinks she has anemia, but the doctor has discovered that she has cancer and has only 6 months to live, now she must hide her secret from her husband, his children and her new baby.

A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.

One night in the cabaret, a drug trafficker places drugs in a man's pocket without him noticing.

Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.

The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact.

Laura Gayán, a young singing student, is secretly in love with Carlos, Count of San Telmo, and she lives in his palace because his father is the porter. Stephen, a fellow student, drinker and womanizer, attempts to seduce her, taking advantage of the girls' sentimental bad situation due to the recent news of the wedding of his beloved. Eventually, Laura gets a contract to make "small forms" and, against her heart, she married Stephen. Meanwhile, dissolves the marriage of Charles ...

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.

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.

In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.

Fishing-village girl sacrifices her reputation to the local banker to protect her family; fron there, she follows the path of least resistance, but she never forgets the fiance she left behind...

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.

A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.

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.

Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

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.

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

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.

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.

Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.

Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.