Chano Urueta

Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra (1974)

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

Los leones del ring (1974)

Young wrestler runs afoul of gambling-syndicate Mafiosi; his twin brother and two friends meet at his funeral and decide to avenge his murder (which they don't even start doing until the sequel). ...

Tu camino y el mio (1973)

She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?). ...

The Incredible Professor Zovek (1972)

Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters. ...

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 ...

El as de oros (1968)

A young charro's head is turned by a glamourpuss from the big city, and he has a hard time putting his life back together after she kicks him to the curb. ...

Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women (1968)

Wrestler vs. organized crime. ...

Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brains (1968)

A wrestling hero helps the police in their battle against a mad doctor and his army of female zombies. ...

Los gavilanes negros (1966)

Three masked horsemen vs. crooked saloon-owner and his henchdudes. ...

Blue Demon vs. the Satanic Power (1966)

The Blue Demon faces a murderous satanic hypnotist. ...

Alma grande (1966)

Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series. ...

Especialista en chamacas (1965)

Young doctor Jaime attends his father's clinic where Diana, a singer, is carried by emergency. After operating it, Jaime falls in love Diana and decides to accompany her throw artistic caravan, where replaced a singer and quarrels by jealousy with Javier, ...

Blue Demon (1965)

Wrestler vs mad-scientist with werewolf serum. ...

El robo al tren correo (1964)

B-Western, plot turns on a train-robbery. ...

Cinco asesinos esperan (1964)

Lupe Balazos (1964)

Cowgirl gets her man. After all the entanglements run their course. ...

El ciclón de Jalisco (1964)

La muerte en el desfiladero (1963)

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago"). ...

The Living Head (1963)

A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists. ...

Los chacales (1963)

The Brainiac (1962)

In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. ...

El asaltacaminos (1962)

Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago. ...

Camino de la horca (1962)

Gloomy, fatalistic grown-up western. ...

The Witch's Mirror (1962)

A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge. ...

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. ...

El hombre de la ametralladora (1961)

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

Guantes de oro (1961)

By-the-numbers boxing melodrama. ...

Tres Romeos y una Julieta (1961)

El torneo de la muerte (1960)

Luciano Romero (1960)

Jilted boyfriend goes gunning for his ex's new husband, kills her by accident. Husband takes it badly. Sequel to El Hombre Del Alazan (1959). ...

Bala Perdida (1960)

Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot. ...

Las canciones unidas (1960)

Film clips of songs by performers from around the world. ...

Herencia trágica (1960)

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago"). ...

Los tigres del ring (1960)

Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two. ...

Una bala es mi testigo (1960)

Cowboy goes to track down the man who murdered his brother, but it turns out to be someone other than the one he was looking for. Together, they set things straight and take care of the real murderer. ...

Revolver en guardia (1960)

Los hermanos Diablo (1959)

The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it. ...

Del suelo no paso (1959)

Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels. ...

Cuando se quiere se quiere (1959)

No soy monedita de oro (1959)

El jinete negro (1958)

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago"). ...

The Mark of Satan (1957)

Cowboy avenger vs the supernatural. ...

The Head of Pancho Villa (1957)

Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza. ...

The Headless Rider (1957)

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La ...

Furias desatadas (1957)

College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series. ...

Assassins of the Night (1957)

A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival. ...

El ratón (1957)

Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life. ...

Diabolical Kidnapping (1957)

Second film in the Tigres del ring series. ...

Serenata en México (1956)

Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act. ...

The Illegitimate (1956)

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

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. ...

El túnel 6 (1955)

Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide. ...

La rival (1955)

El vendedor de muñecas (1955)

A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men. ...

Se solicitan modelos (1954)

In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult ...

¿Por qué ya no me quieres? (1954)

Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who helps her succeed. ...

La perversa (1954)

A single, hard-working, girl looks to improve her situation by becoming a "kept woman". In doing so, she turns away from church and family, thereby violating the mandates of both God and Man. ...

The Witch (1954)

Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge o ...

La desconocida (1954)

Love Me Because I Die (1953)

The Magnificent Beast (1953)

Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies. ...

The Revived Monster (1953)

Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad sc ...

El cuarto cerrado (1952)

A man gives his testimony to a doctor, believing he hears the voice of his deceased wife, Diana. ...

Música, mujeres y amor (1952)

Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen. ...

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. ...

La estatua de carne (1951)

Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers. ...

From Can-Can to Mambo (1951)

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun. ...

Manos de seda (1951)

Serenata en Acapulco (1951)

Three broke-ass promoters ingratiate themselves with the owners of a hotel aand a rich guest, all with an eye toward putting on a show. ...

Peregrina (1951)

To the Sound of the Mambo (1950)

A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item. ...

El desalmado (1950)

Fictional biography of a career criminal. ...

Mi preferida (1950)

A couple travels by car and they are kidnapped by a gang, they escape but they find the criminal boss. ...

La gota de sangre (1950)

Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess? ...

Ventarrón (1949)

Ex-con presides over an underworld court trial in an abandoned warehouse to determine the fates of some accused "squealers." Flashbacks reveal the facts of the case being tried. ...

El abandonado (1949)

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery. ...

No me quieras tanto... (1949)

A ruthless nightclub owner involved in drug trafficking exploits a naive singer while plotting to kill his rival, who's been hiding for five years due to his own drug-related past. ...

Dos almas en el mundo (1949)

A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released. ...

Yo maté a Juan Charrasqueado (1949)

Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man. ...

The Grand Champion (1949)

El Kid Azteca not only fights to become someone in life; he also fights for the love of Avelina, who shows no interest in him when she sees that fame has gone to his head. ...

Rayito de luna (1949)

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La santa del barrio (1948)

Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this. ...

La norteña de mis amores (1948)

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy. ...

En los altos de Jalisco (1948)

MexRev era -- soldier falls in love with the woman who killed his brother, then discovers her role in his back-story. ...

Se la llevó el Remington (1948)

While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, thoug ...

An Adventure in the Night (1948)

After a party, two friends pick up two beautiful girls with whom they spend a wonderful night. The next day, the two friends return to look for them and a neighbor surprises them when she tells them that the girls died some time before. Intrigued by the ev ...

Si Adelita se fuera con otro (1948)

Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa. ...

La carne manda (1948)

Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub. ...

El deseo (1948)

Two sisters; one's an invalid. They fall in love with the same man. ...

La feria de Jalisco (1948)

This lighthearted 1 hour and forty minute musical-comedy was written by its Director, Chano Urueta and was first released on May 20, 1948. Its female lead, is a Cuban-born beauty with the stage name of Ninion Seviilla. She also became one of the original " ...

De pecado en pecado (1948)

This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance, the f ...

Mujer (1947)

Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace. ...

La noche y tú (1946)

Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes. ...

El puente del castigo (1946)

In a Mexican village during XIX century, word spread of a curse. Old José tells Carmen about the curse surrounding the Bridge of Punishment, said to affect anyone who wishes for another person's death. ...

El superhombre (1946)

1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta. ...

El recuerdo de aquella noche (1945)

Mexican movie ...

Camino de Sacramento (1945)

Twin brothers, one of them a bandit, in Mexican California. ...

El camino de los gatos (1944)

Love story and family-melodrama set during the Mexican War Of Independence, 1860s. ...

El corsario negro (1944)

This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo. ...

Viva Mi Desgracia (1944)

After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonie ...

No matarás (1943)

A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter. ...

Ave sin nido (1943)

Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter. ...

Guadalajara (1943)

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El conde de Montecristo (1942)

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable ...

El misterioso señor Marquina (1942)

La liga de las canciones (1941)

International committee mounts a revue to promote Pan-American unity. Showbiz hotel rom-com hilarity ensues. ...

¡Que viene mi marido! (1940)

Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status. ...

The Underdogs (1940)

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" d ...

The Sign of Death (1939)

Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo. ...

The Night of the Mayans (1939)

A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy. ...

Hombres del mar (1938)

A 1938 film. ...

Canción del alma (1938)

Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later... ...

María (1938)

The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full r ...

Mi candidato (1937)

Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry. ...

Jalisco nunca pierde (1937)

Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda. ...

Clemencia (1935)

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Una mujer en venta (1934)

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Desecration (1934)

Enemigos (1934)

The bride of a Federale colonel rejects him on their wedding night, and begins extramarital relations with a strapping young leader of the peasant revolution against which the colonel is fighting. ...

El escándalo (1934)

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La Choca (1974)

A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them. ...

Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974)

After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost. ...

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. ...

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 ...

The Wrath of God (1972)

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader. ...

Kaliman, the Incredible Man (1972)

Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different motivations: from the mere archaeological find to the destruction of humanity. ...

The Fearmaker (1971)

A world-famous stage performer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting. ...

Furias bajo el cielo (1971)

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

Emiliano Zapata (1970)

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

El pueblo del terror (1970)

Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime ...

El hermano Capulina (1970)

Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery. ...

Dos esposas en mi cama (1970)

Missing-presumed-dead wife reappears after husband has remarried. ...

El capitán Mantarraya (1970)

Elderly sea captain charms and delights an audience of children, telling them stories about the high adventures he experienced when he was young. ...

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 ...

Super Colt 38 (1969)

Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Bil ...

The Wild Bunch (1969)

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. ...

Todo Por Nada (1969)

Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge. ...

Chanoc (1967)

Chanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a gang that extracts uranium. ...

Una luz en mi camino (1939)

In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles. ...