Armando Acosta

Cornered (1976)

Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside. ...

Letters from Marusia (1975)

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible ...

...And Woman Made Man (1975)

A completely illiterate general from the Mexican Revolution "wins" a teacher in a game of dice. What happens to him with this woman is something unexpected. ...

La mafia amarilla (1975)

Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror. ...

El Investigador Capulina (1975)

Child-in-adult-body tries to play Detective, but he's too stupid, and his lucha-libre friends have to cover his butt every time he fouls a case up or gets thrown in jail. Meanwhile, there's a rogue Bank President who has a teleportation machine that he's u ...

The Braid (1975)

A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin. ...

Before the Corpse of a Leader (1974)

A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions. ...

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo. ...

Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra (1974)

Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses. ...

La carrera del millón (1974)

Father and uncle have conflicting ideas about who a young woman should marry, so they set up an elaborate, wacky contest to resolve their disagreement. ...

Guns and Guts (1974)

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help th ...

La muerte de Pancho Villa (1974)

After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated. ...

Cinco mil dolares de recompensa (1974)

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals. ...

Chabelo y Pepito Detectives (1974)

A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and th ...

El principio (1973)

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa's revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolesce ...

Uno Y Medio Contra El Mundo (1973)

Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society. ...

La tigresa (1973)

Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents. ...

The Invasion of the Dead (1973)

Professor Bruno Volpi spots some strange paintings on a cliff. He sends for Professor Zovek to help him discover its meaning. Zovek uses his powers to figure the writings are a warning that a cosmic tragedy is going to happen. Their fears prove to be true ...

El sargento Perez (1973)

Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs... ...

Entre Monjas Anda El Diablo (1973)

A man called "The Devil" makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery. ...

Los Cacos (1972)

A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money. ...

El vals sin fin (1972)

Padre nuestro que estas en la tierra (1972)

Single father with a disability struggles to raise his son. ...

El metiche (1972)

Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso. ...

Who Killed Grandpa? (1972)

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension. ...

Mi niño Tizoc (1972)

Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish. ...

La pequeña señora de Perez (1972)

Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway. ...

Capulina vs. the Vampires (1971)

Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery. ...

El águila descalza (1971)

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses. ...

La mula de Cullen Baker (1971)

A young Cullen Baker rides his mule throughout the old west with his father, when bandits attack them, killing his father. Cullen becomes a loner, again riding a mule through the west and getting into trouble wherever he goes. When a soldier shows him the ...

The Moderate Doctor (1971)

Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic. ...

Wait for me in Siberia, Darling! (1971)

Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it. ...

Aguilas de acero (1971)

Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way. ...

Emiliano Zapata (1970)

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution. ...

Santo vs. the Riders of Terror (1970)

After a group of violent lepers escapes from a sanitarium, - robbing several farms, residents of the town demand the the sheriff - take action. Meanwhile, a local criminal joins forces with the lepers - to commit even more robberies. As the disfigured madm ...

Las chicas malas del padre Mendez (1970)

A priest is dismissed from his parish, so he decides to open a halfway house to rehabilitate sex workers. ...

Las cadenas del mal (1970)

Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random. ...

Tres noches de locura (1970)

Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap. ...

Unethical Behaviour (1970)

A family in extreme poverty is forced to make a series of sacrifices in order to survive. ...

Perverse Doll (1969)

A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets. ...

Mujeres de medianoche (1969)

Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation. ...

The Door and the Butcher's Wife (1969)

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The But ...

Romance sobre ruedas (1969)

A sporty new car is gifted to two young men who work at an auto factory, and they have to time-share it between them. ...

La marcha a Zacatecas (1969)

Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much. ...

Mi padrino (1969)

Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career. ...

Mil Máscaras (1969)

A committee of four wise men trains the masked hero Mil Máscaras to defend the world. When someone kidnaps the members of the committee, the hero stops at nothing to rescue them. ...

Romeo contra Julieta (1968)

Ambición sangrienta (1968)

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights. ...

There are not Crosses in the Sea (1968)

A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter. ...

Infernal Angels (1968)

The "Hell's Angels" gang aim to kill Mil Mascaras for sending their leader's sweetheart to jail. ...

Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic (1968)

Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the very formula rumored to turn any metal into gold! Dr. Satan must go toe to toe with the vampiric black magician Yei Lin, in order to keep it out of their h ...

Tres mil kilómetros de amor (1967)

Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara. ...

Operation 67 (1967)

The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy. ...

Amanecí en tus brazos (1967)

The Panther Women (1967)

The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring. ...

Pedro Paramo (1967)

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers… ...

El Hijo De Gabino Barrera (1965)

Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered. ...

Adventure at the Center of the Earth (1965)

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 w ...

She-Wolves of the Ring (1965)

Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring. ...

Napoleoncito (1964)

The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964)

Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi are tag-team Luchadoras, helping a scientist on a quest to discover an ancient Aztec treasure, but the fiendish Prince Fugiyata wants to get there first. Both are in for a surprise, as the treasure is guarded by Xochitl, the Az ...

Así amaron nuestros padres (1964)

Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio. ...

Frente al destino (1964)

Las chivas rayadas (1964)

The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family. ...

Un ángel de mal genio (1964)

De color moreno (1963)

The Paper Man (1963)

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. ...

Las bravuconas (1963)

Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town. ...

El amor llegó a Jalisco (1963)

In a small Mexican town, two rival groups clash over water irrigation rights. While the local priest attempts to mediate, his nieces charm the landowners' sons to force a peaceful resolution. ...

Heart of a Child (1963)

Story about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive. ...

Doctor of Doom (1963)

A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor. ...

La fierecilla del puerto (1963)

Ana María is a beautiful young woman who sells souvenirs to help her grandpa. When she falls in love with Alberto, a wealthy young man, she has to face his father, who will do anything to keep them apart. ...

Tlayucan (1962)

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church. ...

El Extra (1962)

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foi ...

Pilotos de la muerte (1962)

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers. ...

The White Horse (1962)

Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex ...

La rabia por dentro (1962)

Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a big company, who must put a time bomb aboard the airplane while keeping the money. Waiting for the plan to ...

El hombre de la ametralladora (1961)

A villain hires a hired assassin, "The Machine Gun Man" for the kidnapping of two rich girls. ...

El analfabeto (1961)

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the ...

Martín Santos, El llanero (1961)

A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned. ...

The Phantom of the Operetta (1960)

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume. ...

Amor en la sombra (1960)

A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover. ...

¡Yo sabia demasiado! (1960)

Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arr ...

Dos corazones y un cielo (1959)

Husband and wife share the spotlight as two of Mexico's most famous ranchera singers, but when they decide to pursue solo careers, a Spanish theatrical empresario and an Italian female chocolatier will threaten their marriage. ...

Sonatas (1959)

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, ...

El que con niños se acuesta... (1959)

Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage. ...

Refifí entre las mujeres (1958)

School for Buglars (1958)

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims. ...

La faraona (1956)

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. Howev ...

La adúltera (1956)

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife. ...

Locura pasional (1956)

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy. ...

Una Movida Chueca (1956)

Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future. ...

El seductor (1955)

A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit. ...

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan... ...

School for Tramps (1955)

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps. ...

El hombre inquieto (1954)

Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son. ...

La entrega (1954)

Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing ...

Dios los cría (1953)

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. ...

Si, Mi vida (1953)

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy. ...

El mensaje de la muerte (1953)

The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana. ...

Ella, Lucifer y yo (1953)

A man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will. ...

Remember to Live (1953)

In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of y ...

Mi campeón (1952)

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband. ...

Dancing, salón de baile (1952)

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape. ...

Daughter of Deceit (1951)

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her. ...

They Say I'm a Communist (1951)

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious a ...