Daniel Arroyo

Sor Ye-yé (1968)

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about ...

Your Excellency (1967)

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état i ...

Napoleoncito (1964)

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. ...

La tórtola del Ajusco (1962)

The Curse of Nostradamus (1961)

An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them. ...

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. ...

Our Daily Hunger (1960)

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday. ...

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. ...

School for Buglars (1958)

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

Sueños de oro (1958)

Path of evil (1957)

La culta dama (1957)

A pregnant and very poor woman has no place to give birth, and turns to a society lady for help. ...

The Champion Cyclist (1957)

Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: ...

Teatro del crimen (1957)

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer. ...

The Innocent (1956)

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing ...

Basket of Mexican Tales (1956)

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as ...

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. ...

Una Movida Chueca (1956)

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

Yo no creo en los hombres (1955)

In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses. ...

El hombre inquieto (1954)

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

La visita que no tocó el timbre (1954)

Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby. ...

Tailored gentleman (1954)

Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Can ...

The Intruder (1954)

Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to ...

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 ...

El gran autor (1954)

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

Reto a la vida (1954)

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. ...

Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an ...

Camelia (1954)

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan. ...

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. ...

Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain! (1953)

Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfri ...

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. ...

Las infieles (1953)

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications. ...

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 ...

El bombero atómico (1952)

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything g ...

A Woman Without Love (1952)

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend ...

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 loca (1952)

Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited... ...

Si yo fuera diputado (1952)

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the ot ...

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 ...

Ella y Yo (1951)

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. ...

The Soft One (1951)

Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even when it causes pain to his devoted aging mother and his beautiful neighbor Lupita, who resists his overtur ...

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 ...

Arrabalera (1951)

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities. ...

Pecado (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. ...

They also sing of pain (1950)

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. ...

Doña Diabla (1950)

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest. ...

La gota de sangre (1950)

Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess? ...

The Great Madcap (1949)

Portrayal of a family's attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone. ...

Dicen que soy mujeriego (1949)

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women. ...

Secreto entre mujeres (1949)

Marta, a maid at the boarding house run by her aunt Doña Laura, prevents the lodger Elena from committing suicide over the writer Arturo, who has proposed that they live together instead of getting married. Arturo then tries to seduce another lodger, the ...

A Family Like Many Others (1949)

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

Black Angels (1948)

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. ...

El cuarto mandamiento (1948)

A Mexican family drama. ...

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 ...

El ladrón (1947)

Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction. ...

Ángel o demonio (1947)

Wealthy young gentleman falls in love with a cabaret girl of no breeding; he overcomes his prejudices and accepts her in spite of her past... will she live up to his expectations of her? ...

Enamorada (1946)

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one ...

The Other (1946)

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister. ...

El socio (1946)

A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ... ...

La reina de la opereta (1946)

Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again. ...

La mujer que engañamos (1945)

Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem. ...

Me ha besado un hombre (1944)

Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity... ...

El hombre de la máscara de hierro (1943)

Los apuros de Narciso (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Enrique Herrera. ...