A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.
Ali Kerim Bey
Джеймс Бонд (Шон Коннери) отправляется в Стамбул с заданием получить сверхсекретный Дешифровальный Аппарат «Лектор», который якобы готова помочь похитить Татьяна Романова (Даниэла Бьянки), сотрудница советского консульства. На самом деле события идут по плану, разработанному по поручению незримого Эрнста Ставро Блофелда (Энтони Доусон) — № 1 международной террористической организации СПЕКТР, надеющегося отомстить за гибель Доктора Но и внести свою лепту в разжигание «холодной войны».
El Kerim
После завершения своих путешествий Синдбад-мореход и его сердечная команда вернулись домой, чтобы найти дворец после государственного переворота и его родной город управляется жестоким диктатором, которого играет Педро Арменданис. У него есть проекты на красивой молодой принцессе, Хайди Брул, похожей и политической.
Roberto Herrera
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
Señor Cura
В ночь под рождество в маленькую мексиканскую деревушку въезжают на осле индеец Арнульфо и его жена Хансита, которая с минуты на минуту должна родить. Местная акушерка Ремедиос и ее воспитанник, двадцатилетний Теофилос, решили использовать создавшуюся ситуацию в своих корыстных целях. И вот по деревне разнесся слух, что в хлеву у Ремедиос рожает женщина, приехавшая на осле как дева Мария. Охваченные религиозным фанатизмом, крстьяне кинулись к дому Ремедиос. Они верят, что совершается чудо, что «новый» Христос, который должен родиться, принесет всем счастье и благосостояние. Не скупясь, они дают Ремедиос и Теофилосу деньги для будущего ребенка. Священник не в силах доказать фанатичной толпе, что родился самый обыкновенный ребенок. И тогда он идет на крайние меры: незаметно умерщвляет ребенка. Виля, что новорожденный оказался смертным, толпа верующих быстро расходится.
Cadmo
An evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.
Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own social stratum.
General
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.
The Sultan
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Pedro
Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.
Francisco Peña
During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.
Lucas Sánchez Parrondo
Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the brutal Lucas to save her honor. But the mother of the girl pays Lucas 20,000 reales so that the man will never get any closer to Antonia or the child to be born. The man's bad temper will take him to jail and Antonia will try to remake his life with Pedro, Luca's brother. However, despite how far they may go, the couple are distressed at the prospect of Lucas being pardoned and seeking them after leaving prison.
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.
Don Pedro
The film tells the story of two twins separated in childhood who reunite when they are older. One of them has grown between outlaws and has become one of them, a murderous bandit who frightens the region. The other has grown, without knowing it, in exactly the ranch of the man who murdered his father and has become the loving foreman of the farmer's daughter, now deceased.
Macario Férnandez
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Coronel Valentín Razo
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
Cipriano Castro
В юности Брэйди бежал в Мексику, чтобы избежать американской тюрьмы, - он убил убийцу своего отца. Спустя годы работы телохранителем у богатого мексиканского патрона он ненавидит белых американцев, но вынужден отправиться на север, чтобы закупить оружие. Перейдя границу, он переживает неприятный эпизод с американской армией из-за того, что не стал помогать им преследовать апачей. Но люди, которых он встречает в маленьком городке, в том числе, один европейский иммигрант, меняют его черно-белую картину мира. У него и Элен Колтон (Джули Лондон) вспыхивают взаимные чувства друг к другу. Еще несколько приключений и одна-две трагедии сказываются на маловероятном будущем пары - в конечном счете, к лучшему. Звезда бейсбола Сатчел Пейдж появляется в коротком эпизоде, ведя за собой афро-американский отряд армии США. Роль босса Брэйди, губернатора Кастро исполняет звезда мексиканского кино Педро Армендарис.
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Pedro Ortiz
Pepe Gamboa
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.
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
Gen. Inocencio Torrentera
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
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.
El Tiburón
The most fearsome pirate in epic deeds and fierce battles. Betrayed and abandoned on an island, discover a fabulous treasure and fight to the death to save a child from the dangers and wild beasts.
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
Pancho Villa
The second chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
Pancho Villa
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
Pedro Matías
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
Mario Constanza
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)
Tough guy fights gangsters and counterfeiters in pre-Castro Cuba.
Giovanni
Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
Pancho Villa
The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
Felipe Rojano
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.
Jamuga
Вождь монголов Тимучин, который влюблен в дочь татарского вождя Бортай, крадет ее, тем самым ускоряя начало войны. Бортай отвергает Тимучина. Позже, при налете Тимучин попадает в плен. Но тут Бортай влюбляется в него и помогает ему бежать. Тимучин подозревает, что он был предан и намеревается найти предателя и победить татар.
King Francis I
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Gen. Torres
Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help.
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
Martín
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.
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
Ricardo Anaya
Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Cándido Castro
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
César Borgia
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.
Pedro
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the chief of police.
Roque Suazo
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Pablo González
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.
Marcos Arizmendi
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
Pedro Muñóz
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Pedro Uribe
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
Gothic-y love story a la Wuthering Heights.
Manelic
A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
Bernardo Celis
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
José María Cruz
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
José Juan Reyes
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.
Producer
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Rosauro Castro
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
Esteban
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.
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Sebastian del Llano
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Armando Ariete
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.
Jim Redbird
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte
Три преступника в бегах встречают женщину, которая умирает и перед смертью просит о спасении ее новорожденного ребенка. Они клянутся отвезти младенца в безопасное место, даже несмотря на угрожающую им опасность.
José María
На небольшом мексиканском острове живёт группа индейцев. Они живут, придерживаясь своих традиций и не воспринимают посторонних. Красавица Макловия и Хосе Мария любят друг друга, но отец девушки не позволяет им пожениться и противится любым связям между ними из-за бедности юноши. Молодой человек стремится обучиться и заработать средства для покупки собственной рыбацкой лодки, чтобы заслужить расположение её отца. В то же время на остров прибывает батальон солдат и жестокий сержант положил глаз на Макловию.
Sequel to "Juan Charrasqueado." Juan Jr. discovers that the woman he's engaged to is the daughter of the man who killed his father.
Sgt. Beaufort
Капитан Кирби Йорк несет службу в богом забытом форте. Он славится своим опытом в борьбе с индейцами. В форт прибывает полковник Оуэн Тьюсдэй, известный своей суровостью. Возглавив форт, он приводит войска в отличную боевую форму и готовится отразить атаки апачей, вставших на тропу войны.
Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station.
A Lieutenant of Police
Фильм рассказывает, как власти одного из штатов Мексики, стремясь покончить с влиянием католической церкви, выслеживают последнего священника, обманом захватывают его и расстреливают.
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
Quino
В небольшой рыбацкой деревушке живет бедный рыбак Кино с женой Хуаной. Однажды их жизнь переворачивается из-за двух происшествий: их маленького сына кусает скорпион, а Кино находит на дне моря крупную и очень дорогую жемчужину.
Gen. José Juan Reyes
Во времена мексиканской революции генерал повстанцев Хосе Хуан Рейес и его войско захватывают консервативный город Чолула, расположенный недалеко от Мехико. Генерал требует от самых богатых горожан пожертвований на мексиканскую революцию. Однако его планы нарушаются, когда он влюбляется в сеньориту Беатрис Пенафьель, своенравную дочь самого богатого человека города.
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Ricardo Rojas
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
Misogynist military asshole is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
Juan Gómez
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las Calaveras Del Terror and Vuelven Las Calaveras Del Terror. Good guys vs bad guys for possession of a map showing the location of a lost mine.
Social Justice Warriors. On Horseback. Wearing Dia de los Muertos costumes.
Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.
This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
Lorenzo Rafael
1909 год, Мексика. В центре сюжета Мария Канделария и Лоренцо Рафаэль, которые мечтают пожениться. Однако жестокое и полное нетерпимости общество мешает их мечте осуществиться…
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
Octavio
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Federico Robles
Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
José Luis Castro
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
El Toro
В 1909 году отряд мексиканской армии под командованием капитана Альенде перемещается на остров Клиппертон (также называемый Островом Страсти) в Тихом океане. После начала мексиканской революции остров переходит в ведение правительства Франции, что в принципе остается незамеченным для островитян.
Rich city family is close to bankruptcy; rich country cousins come to visit.
Juan Hernández
Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
General Briceño Méndez
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
Frank
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Leonardo Torres
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is confronted by the unpleasant surprise that her dad has been assassinated by the malicious municiple government, which has the whole town in a clutch of terror. "An excellent sharp-shooter is worth more here, than a good lawyer..." This phrase inspires lawyer Leonardo Torres to convert himself into a guardian of justice, who will defend the right of the weak against tyranny. Nobody would ever guess that the "timid" lawyer is in reality none other than the dreadful "Zorro of Jalisco."
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Chuy Rodríguez
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Ramón
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
Raúl Solares
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Zenón Rojas
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
Three of Villa's soldiers 'adopt' the orphaned daughter of a friend who was killed in battle.
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.
Hilaria's engaged to be married, but her fiance may never come back from Texas. Meanwhile, two local guys are interested in her...
Antonio
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Antonio
Social-justice movie about exploitation of Indians by white people in pre-Revolution Mexico.
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
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.
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
