Columba Domínguez
Nascimento : 1929-03-04, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
Morte : 2014-08-13
História
Columba Domínguez Adalid foi uma atriz, cantora e pintora mexicana. Ela é considerada uma figura crucial na Idade de Ouro do cinema mexicano e é lembrada particularmente por sua atuação no filme Pueblerina, considerado uma das jóias do cinema mexicano.
Ramona
Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.
Mamá de Roberto
Uma história de amor transformou-se em assassinato contra o pano de fundo do massacre estudantil de 1968 cujo status não resolvido é finalmente resolvido em tensas condições de ameaça à vida. A história de um jornalista teimoso que empreende o esclarecimento e a apresentação à justiça do hediondo assassinato de um estudante quarenta anos depois representa um esforço dedicado para forçar um país a se reconciliar e encerrar eventos sociais e políticos trágicos na história de um país. Uma nação não pode permitir encobrimentos oficiais que procurem apagar e apagar os eventos da memória coletiva que impedem a marcha de uma nação em direção à justiça social
Paloma
Román has decided to leave his native town, but first he must say goodbye to Paloma.
The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have boyfriend troubles, and all the women band together to vote their own representative into City Hall as Mayor.
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
Regina Villegas
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
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...
Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.
Marcela de Fernandez
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
Anthology film, four stories set in Guadalajara and environs.
Sra. Silva
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death.
Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.
Meche
The story of a native Mexican who wants to kill a man.
Señorita Directora de casa hogar
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.
Remedios
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 ".
Asunción
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
Juana
Animas Trujano é um índio colorido, mas irresponsável em uma pequena vila mexicana. Ele espera acima de todas as coisas um dia ser escolhido mayordomio de sua vila, um lugar de grande honra normalmente conferidos aos cidadãos mais ricos e mais respeitados. Animas tem uma esposa fiel, mas trai ela e joga fora a cada centavo que consegue.
The Widow
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.
Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the lands belonging to local indigenous tribe and in getting that territory restored to tribal governance.
Xochicalpa
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."
Three con-artists chase after the absconded girlfriend of one and butt heads with two female swindlers working the same marks.
Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.
Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder. Meanwhile, the tough broad who owns the bar faces problems of her own, mostly centered around a philandering boyfriend and an over-ambitious adopted daughter.
Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.
A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agree to the price she sets on it. Twist ending.
María Flores
Jailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border.
Lucía
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian.
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Mercedes
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Petra
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Isabel Villada
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
Julia
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
Belén Martí
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
In Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi family is going through difficult times and is threatened with eviction. To be able to pay his debts, Don Paulu, the son, needs help. He seeks aid from Uncle Zua, an old miser, who rejects him bluntly. Upset by Paulu's misfortunes, Annesa, the servant girl adopted by the family and Paulu's lover, decides to kill Zua so that the Decherchis inherit from him...
Acacia
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
Paloma
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
Sara
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
Merceditas
Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.
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A poor Mexican diver discovers a valuable pearl in the ocean, but it brings his family only trouble
Joven andaluza (uncredited)
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.