Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known potentate of the region. His investigation is directed towards all the armed factions that exist in Colombia.

Leon has a crush on Ofelia, so he decides to steal money from his father and cross the country looking for Ofelia who traveled to Guadalajara. On his journey, Leon goes through many adventures and takes the final step from childhood into adolescence.

«Хронос» — это чудесное маленькое устройство, которое, сбежавший из Испании в Мексику гениальный алхимик Умберто Фальконелли, изобрел в 1536 году. Устройство, дарующее бессмертие… Правда, в 1937 году жизнь алхимика все-таки оборвалась в результате трагической случайности. Потому что «Хронос» обещал вечную жизнь при условии, что владелец будет собственной кровью питать его… Имущество особняка, где жил алхимик, было продано с молотка. И вот однажды хозяин антикварного магазина старик Хесус Грис расковырял фигурку ангела и, обнаружив внутри странную коробочку, привел в действие ее заводной механизм… Так у «Хроноса» появился новый владелец, но не только ему был известен секрет бессмертия…

Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.

Энни — учительница, работающая в школе в пригороде Лос-Анджелеса. Она уже шесть лет замужем, счастлива и любит своего мужа. Но раньше она была спецагнтом ЦРУ и работала на Кубе. Об этом не знает практически никто, даже её муж Пол Гудвин. Энни же отлично владеет испанским и обладает всеми качествами, нужными секретному агенту. Неожиданно спокойная жизнь Энни нарушается — ей кто-то звонит и сообщает, что бывший её возлюбленный по прозвищу «Танцор», которого она когда-то спасла от верной гибели, снова в беде и нуждается в её помощи. Теперь Энни отправляется на Кубу, в одну из тюрьм, чтобы спасти «танцора» и ещё одного агента Мэлэрина.

Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...

Mexican feature film

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

Mexican feature film

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.

In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".

Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come to see her...

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?

Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

Five inmates escape Death Row and hole up with their women in the ruins of an abandoned hacienda.

Gale (Charles Robinson) is an idealistic and naive young hunter who ignores warnings that no one can survive for long in the jungles of Mexico except the native Indians. He tries to hunt crocodiles but becomes delirious, disoriented and nears death. Sleigh (John Huston) is a veteran hunter living among the natives who rescues Gale just in time. As he recovers in the Indian village, Gale listens to Sleigh's denunciation of the evils of modern society (ie. money, greed and oil). Later on, a former native of the village returns from the oil fields of Texas and presents his young brother with a pair of cowboy boots. Proudly wearing his new boots, the boy falls off the wooden bridge into the river and drowns as the boots, symbolic shackles of civilization, fill up with water and pull him beneath the surface. Sleigh and Gale observe the Indians as they recover the body and stage an elaborate funeral for the dead boy

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.

Мексика. 1746 год. Беглого преступника Леона Аластрея, переодетого монахом, в деревне Сан-Себастьян ошибочно принимают за священника. Сами жители деревни страдают из-за нападений индейского племени яки, которых возглавлял метис Текло, и появление священника считают знаком свыше. Сначала Леон отказывается принять на себя роль спасителя, но в итоге вынужден пересмотреть своё решение.

A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.

A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.

Во время мексиканской революции владелец ранчо Джо Грант нанимает четырех человек, чтобы спасти свою жену Марию, похищенную мексиканским «бандитом» Разой. Фильм основан на романе «Мул для маркизы» Фрэнка О'Рурка.

A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.

A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are separated and the horse ends up in a rodeo, Clint is determined to set it free.

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.

Mexican feature film

Driven from their homestead by bandits, three brothers and sisters form an outlaw crew of their own and hide out in the mountains, orchestrating their revenge.

A husband and his lover hatch a plan to murder his wife, and a woman is buried alive in a mausoleum.

Когда у крестьянина Эуфемио тяжело заболел ребенок, он, чтобы заплатить за лечение, вынужден был украсть жемчужину из венца статуи святой Люсии. Но воспользоваться драгоценностью ему не пришлось: узнав о краже, его избили и арестовали. И только унизительная благотворительность местного богача помогла спасти ребёнка.

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.

О приключениях маленького мексиканского мальчика Луиса и его дрессированной обезьянки Панчо, которые помогли двум учёным найти колонию редких птиц — танцующих розовых фламинго.

Film-director assigned to making a teenaged-hoodlums crime drama, agonizes over the positive social message he wants his film to convey. Meanwhile, his young actors all have their own melodramas running...

В маленькой деревушке крестьяне годами страдают от бесчинств местных бандитов. Их главарь Калвера держит в страхе всю округу, мучая ее жителей постоянными поборами и наказаниями. И однажды крестьяне решают нанять себе защитников — семерых вооруженных всадников во главе с бритоголовым Крисом. Великолепная семерка быстро наводит порядок, но Калвейре все же удается бежать. И тогда поимка злодея и его соратников становится делом чести великолепной семерки.

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.

An experimental film in which time breaks again and again at the moment of death, where the seconds become whole lives condemned.

This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.

Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.

Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where she discovers Virgin Guadalupe and the legend about her apparitions in that place. Marita doesn't behave properly in school, and her teacher always has a punishment for the girl. She doesn't like school, and she doesn't want to return to school anymore. Besides, Marita's worried about her animals, like a cow who doesn't produce milk. The girl asks many miracles of Virgin Guadalupe, one of them is to not have to go to school. During a visit to the Basilica, Marita hears the Virgin's voice, and this could be the beginning of a responsible life for the girl, like to study and to be a good child.

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.

Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...

Mexican feature film

Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.

Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star runs the emotional gamut as Gabriela, who rises from the depths of poverty to the heights of Mexican society as a much-sought-after courtesan. Eventually, however, Gabriela proves that she is still true to her peasant heritage by casting her lot with the rebels in the 1916 Mexican civil war. Pedro Armendariz co-stars as Felipe, the charismatic rebel leader who wins Gabriela's heart - and inadvertently causes her downfall. La escondida is stunningly photographed by the late, great Gabriel Figueroa.

A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses.

A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her position in white society.

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.

Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.

This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster’s moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Víctor Parra.

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.