Augusto Benedico

Jalisco nunca pierde (1974)

Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice. ...

The Monastery of the Vultures (1973)

In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide. ...

The Cubs (1973)

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself. ...

The She Wolf's Orgy (1972)

A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune. ...

No One Will Love You Like I Do (1972)

A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan. ...

Aunt Isabel's Garden (1972)

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

Secreto de confesión (1971)

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower. ...

Sin salida (1971)

Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates. ...

Yesenia (1971)

A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices. ...

El cielo y tú (1971)

Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune. ...

La hora desnuda (1971)

El pueblo del terror (1970)

Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime ...

Remolino de pasiones (1970)

Gigolo devises underhanded schemes to insinuate himself into the lives of the wife and daughter of a rich man with a terminal illness. ...

El Ultimo Pistolero (1969)

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 ...

The Big Cube (1969)

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance. ...

Cuatro hombres marcados (1968)

Cowboy detective investigates two murders. ...

Las amiguitas de los ricos (1968)

On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage. ...

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… ...

The Clutching Hand (1966)

Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible. ...

Sólo para tí (1966)

Napoleoncito (1964)

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963) (1964)

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints. ...

Mi vida es una canción (1963)

Young pop singer finds his niche in the entertainment industry. ...

Santo in the Hotel of Death (1963)

Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and gi ...

Santo vs. the King of Crime (1962)

El Santo and his loyal friends will try to disarm a dangerous criminal organization. ...

Santo vs. the Vampire Women (1962)

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil. ...

Los secretos del sexo débil (1962)

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals. ...

Cascabelito (1962)

Las recién casadas (1962)

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

Estos años violentos (1962)

Dios sabrá juzgarnos (1961)

Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple. ...

La hermana blanca (1960)

A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent. ...

La cigüeña dijo sí (1960)

Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first. ...

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 ...

Yo pecador (1959)

Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood. ...

Born to Love (1959)

Siete pecados (1959)

Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins. ...

Sabrás que te quiero (1958)

Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support. ...

The New Invisible Man (1958)

A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatric ...

Love Your Neighbor (1958)

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, b ...

Concurso de belleza (1958)

Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow. ...

Tinieblas (1957)

Unfaithful Wives (1956)

A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure. ...

The Illegitimate (1956)

Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling. ...

Historia de un amor (1956)

Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple's life—until one day the girl's grandfather appears. ...

Después de la tormenta (1955)

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shatte ...

El gran autor (1954)

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs. ...

Prisionera del recuerdo (1952)

Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer. ...

Doña Perfecta (1951)

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and ...

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 ...

La venenosa (1949)

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline. ...

Manicomio (1959)

Siete pecados (1959)

Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins. ...