Returning to his grandmother's ranch, this northerner falls in love with the daughter of a great criminal. He will have to confront murderous gunmen trying to steal his land and the woman he adores.
Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant she owns.
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.
Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.
Three convicts break out of jail to retrieve a bunch of gold stolen by one of them. The warden of the jail wants it too. And so does the army.
Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
Businessman hires a stand-in to pass as the father of his mistress' children.
Aging widow interferes in the lives of her adult children.
Makeup Artist
A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers.
Monja
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Doña Chole
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".
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
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Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
A mechanical marries a young but both lose their jobs and happiness again when they know they are expecting a child.
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
Encargada del deposito de papel
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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After a series of doublecrosses involving stolen diamonds, a gangster's babe in Argentina flees to Mexico; she's kept by a druggy, decadent painter and then falls in love with his brother.
María, la criada
Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.
Makeup Artist
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
Dolores
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
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Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
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Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
Handmaid
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
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A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.
Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...
"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
Makeup Artist
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
Makeup Artist
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.
Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.
Bachelor friend of a married couple gets caught up in the drama generated by the husband's philandering.
Mamá de Rodolfo
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.
Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
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Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.
Pancha
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
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Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
Makeup Artist
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.
Makeup Artist
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Bad girl makes lives miserable.
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The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
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Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
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Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
Petra, Cocinera (as Lolita Camarillo)
Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
Tencha
Shortly before a nightclub artist leaves Mexico for an international tour, she's witness to a murder. Shortly after she leaves, she's named as a suspect in the crime, and her husband, assuming she's guilty, turns his back on her. The-e-en...
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Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and meets a new girl.
Marijuana
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.
Tía de Rosita (as Dolores Camarillo 'Fraustita')
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
Toñita
Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
Señora Gómez
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching sister, Victoria, whom he trails to Mexico City. After charming his way into her confidence, Steve helps Vicki unravel the mystery.
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A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Doña Martinita
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
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Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).
Regina (as Fraustita)
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).
Paca
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
The story of a single mother and her children, and the lives that cross their paths.
Toña
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.
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
Cleta
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
Nacha
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
Sirvienta
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
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Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
Romantic triangle, land-owner and two employees.
Nana
Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
Juana (Minana)
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.
Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
Adelaida Méndez (as Lolita Camarillo)
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
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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.
A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Paz 'Pacita'
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
Nana Tomasa
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
Chole
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.
Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
Pancha
Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
Social-justice movie about exploitation of Indians by white people in pre-Revolution Mexico.
Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later...
Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer.
Ranchera comedy/melodrama
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
Dona Lupe Maya
The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the tragedies and hardships of a civil war.
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Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
Marcelina
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
Makeup Artist
Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
Doña
The bride of a Federale colonel rejects him on their wedding night, and begins extramarital relations with a strapping young leader of the peasant revolution against which the colonel is fighting.
La nana
Costume-drama, 1840s: bandits prey on the town of Yautepec for over twenty years.
