Daniel López

Don't Panic (1989)

On his 17th birthday, a boy named Michael has a surprise party thrown by his friends, where a session with a Ouija board accidentally unleashes a demon named Virgil, who possesses one of them to go on a killing spree. Michael, now plagued by violent nightm ...

Mariana Mariana (1987)

The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American th ...

Astucia (1986)

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. ...

Enemies to the Death (1985)

Treasure of the Amazon (1985)

An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle. ...

Under the Shrapnel (1983)

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him. ...

Chile Picante (1983)

A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover. ...

Huevos rancheros (1982)

Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water. ...

A Married Woman (1982)

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, ...

The Seven Cucas (1981)

A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere. ...

The Great Victory (1981)

The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes ...

Las grandes aguas (1980)

Public-works engineer entrusted with a big project faces problems in his home life and conflicts with a corrupt local businessman. ...

Mystery (1980)

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work. ...

Memorias de un Visitador Médico (1980)

A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conqu ...

Rigo is Love (1980)

Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension. ...

Adriana del Rio, actriz (1979)

Erótica (1979)

Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other con man escapes from pr ...

The Perfect Woman (1979)

Marcela, a former film star, seeks tranquility in the suburbs after marrying a wealthy industrialist. Her past haunts her with admirers and daily violence. Overwhelmed by a distant husband, a demanding child, critical in-laws, and loneliness, she escapes t ...

New World (1978)

Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The ...

Paper Flowers (1978)

On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as ...

Mariachi - Fiesta de sangre (1977)

Tells the story of the formation of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, spanning three generations: the grandfather, Amado Vargas; the father, Gaspar Vargas; and the son, Silvestre Vargas. ...

Cuartelazo (1977)

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The f ...

Gorilla's King (1977)

An African safari is attacked by savage natives and the sole survivor is an infant who is adopted and raised by gorillas. As he is growing up, his only human friend is a native boy he happens to meet in a chance encounter. He grows to be a young adult, dis ...

Chin Chin el teporocho (1976)

Rogelio's story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk. ...

Espejismo de la ciudad (1976)

Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass. ...

Red Zone (1976)

In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor, a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite with an old lover. Suddenly, the man reappears to take her away from her life of vice. But the debt owed by Leonor to the "Madame" of the house causes a serie ...

Blacker Than the Night (1975)

When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror. ...

Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon (1975)

1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcom ...

El pequeño Robin Hood (1975)

Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wa ...

Yo Amo, Tu Amas, Nosotros... (1975)

A young girl, María, has 17 "boyfriends" and a fiancé approved by her mother. On his deathbed, Don Eustaquio sends Arturo, a lawyer, in search of his wife Victoria and his daughter Maria, whom he abandoned under pressure from her family. Arturo finds the ...

El valle de los miserables (1975)

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, ...

The Encounter of a Lonely Man (1974)

Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his ...

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. ...

Island of Lost Souls (1974)

Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and ...

The Prophet Mimi (1973)

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer. ...

Nest of Virgins (1972)

"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco. ...

The She Wolf's Orgy (1972)

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

They Call Him Marcado (1971)

The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town's resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, ...

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 ...

Savage Sunday (1967)

Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy. ...

The Golden Cockerel (1964)

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman. ...

Autumn Days (1963)

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she m ...

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. ...

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. ...

Miracles Weaver (1962)

Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ". ...

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. ...

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. ...

Macario (1960)

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, D ...

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, ...

Nazarín (1959)

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor. ...

Sueños de oro (1958)

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 ...

La rosa blanca (1954)

For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work. ...

Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. ...

Mr. Photographer (1953)

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Mea ...

Victims of Sin (1951)

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy. ...

Pueblerina (1949)

Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans. ...

Salon Mexico (1949)

Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her. ...

Maclovia (1948)

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communicat ...

Bugambilia (1945)

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 ...

Maria Candelaria (1944)

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She i ...