David Silva

La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano (2024)

Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory. ...

Pubertinaje (1978)

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy t ...

Alucarda (1977)

A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, ...

The Bricklayers (1976)

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought ...

Cântico Final (1975)

Mário Gonçalves, a high school teacher threatened with death due to cancer, spends the last days of his life in the village where he was born, in the heart of Serra da Estrela. There, he expresses his talent as a painter in the intimate decoration of an ...

Those Years (1974)

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico ...

Faith, Hope and Charity (1974)

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy. ...

The Holy Mountain (1973)

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embar ...

San Simón de los Magueyes (1973)

The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation. ...

The Mansion of Madness (1973)

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run. ...

Una rosa sobre el ring (1973)

After killing an opponent in a freak wrestling accident, El Enmascarado Negro has a midlife crisis and considers retiring from show business. ...

Castle of Purity (1973)

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings. ...

Angels and Cherubs (1972)

A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view. ...

Tacos al Carbon (1972)

Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City. ...

Los Desalmados (1971)

Ya somos hombres (1971)

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Para servir a usted (1971)

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk. ...

The Champions of Justice (1971)

Blue Demon and pals square off against the Black Hand's army of super powered midgets. Five luchadores (Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, El Medico Asesino, La Sombra Vengadora, Tinieblas plus Black Shadow) face off against a mad scientist and his army of powerful ...

El Topo (1970)

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. ...

Simplemente vivir (1970)

Lawyer and his secretary enter into a midlife marriage, deal with complications coming from their adult children and the former partners of each. ...

Secret of Death (1969)

Mil Mascaras investigates a nest of fifth-columnists operating out of a carnival (!) led by a Nazi (John Carradine) attempting to resurrect the Third Reich posing as a circus clown . ...

Arriba las manos Texano (1969)

Series western, sequel to Manuel Saldivar el Texano. ...

Una Horca Para El Texano (1969)

Escalating tensions within a frontier town besieged by outlaws. ...

The Revenge of Hurricane Ramírez (1969)

Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of ​​promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and ...

Infernal Angels (1968)

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

The Bat Woman (1968)

When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. But when her mission leaves the scientist horrifically scarred, he seeks revenge. ...

The Unknown Cowboy (1967)

The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow. ...

Rage (1966)

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment. ...

El hijo de Huracán Ramírez (1966)

A wrestler is arrested on suspicion of assault, but his son manages to capture the real culprits. ...

Los Malditos (1966)

White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns. ...

El cachorro (1966)

El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths. ...

Duelo de pistoleros (1966)

Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money. ...

La recta final (1966)

A jockey is pushed by his former trainer, in order to win one last race after his downfall into alcohol and depression. ...

Cargando con el muerto (1965)

Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse. ...

El secreto del texano (1965)

Mexican feature film ...

The Rider of the Skulls (1965)

Episodic film in which a masked hero combats a trio of classic monsters. ...

El mundo de las drogas (1964)

Federal agents bust a ring that grows and processes opium poppies. ...

El revólver sangriento (1964)

Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners. ...

The Laughter Of The City (1963)

The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. ...

Narcotics Division (1963)

Vice cop infiltrates a jazz club to bust a heroin ring. ...

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. ...

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 Misterio de Huracán Ramírez (1962)

Hurricane Ramirez is the new manager of the arena and champion of the ring. He must battle with The Prince, a ruthless criminal who will try to end with his life. ...

Thursday night (1962)

A group of friends plan to steal a companýs payroll, they succeed, but they have a fatal accident in the getaway car. ...

Jóvenes y rebeldes (1961)

El hombre de la ametralladora (1961)

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

My Son, the Hero (1961)

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge. ...

Then God Named It Earth (1961)

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants. ...

Fatal Trap (1961)

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fisto del diablo." The others are El fistol del diablo, Juego diabólico and El ataúd infernal. All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo. ...

El fistol del diablo II (1961)

Drama, where José asks his stepfather for Amalia's hand and gives her a fistol given to him by a gypsy but Amalia loves Jorge, who is killed by the gypsy and they discover that people change their way of being when they have the fistol. The film consists ...

El aviador fenómeno (1961)

Various murders are examined by a private investigator. ...

Madness from Terror (1961)

Monster film and mad doctor spoof. ...

Mañana serán hombres (1961)

Film-director assigned to making a teenaged-hoodlums crime drama, agonizes over the positive social message he wants his film to convey. Meanwhile, his young actors all have their own melodramas running... ...

Ellas también son rebeldes (1961)

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people. ...

En busca de la muerte (1961)

Tirando a matar (1961)

La edad de la tentación (1959)

By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined ...

Esposa te doy (1957)

Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce. ...

The First Texan (1956)

After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan inde ...

Espaldas mojadas (1955)

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his n ...

Los Fernández de Peralvillo (1954)

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal. ...

Caste of Oak (1954)

A young woman from the country has a son from a young man of a rich family. The rich grandfather of the man, owner of the farm, takes the child away to educate him. A few years later the young woman marries a poor farmer. She rejects the child she has with ...

Huracán Ramírez (1953)

Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses... ...

El billetero (1953)

Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father. ...

El jugador (1953)

Póker de ases (1952)

Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother. ...

Traigo mi 45 (1952)

Mexican feature film ...

Los hijos de nadie (1952)

A man is making a research about the importance of familiar environment in children's future. First, he interviews a prostitute, Rosa, who's in jail because of the murderer of her pimp. She was a poor child, living only with her father. He wants to send hi ...

Engagement ring (1951)

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty. ...

Los amantes (1951)

A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications. ...

Manos de seda (1951)

Apartment house (1951)

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house. ...

Radio Patrulla (1951)

Mexican feature film ...

Yolanda (1951)

About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportati ...

Nosotras, las taquígrafas (1950)

Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses. ...

El amor no es ciego (1950)

A boxer wins a championship but he is injured and forced to retire. After that he falls in love with a blind girl. ...

El desalmado (1950)

Fictional biography of a career criminal. ...

Esposa o amante (1950)

Cuando acaba la noche (1950)

Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life. ...

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. ...

Las puertas del presidio (1949)

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister. ...

Hay lugar para... dos (1949)

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan! ...

Ángeles de arrabal (1949)

Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels. ...

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. ...

Eterna agonía (1949)

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral. ...

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. ...

Rayito de luna (1949)

Mexican movie ...

Tongolele Has Been Killed (1948)

Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer? ...

Revancha (1948)

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret. ...

Señora Tentación (1948)

Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general. ...

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. ...

Those Who Came Back (1948)

A small disparate group of people board a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. A remake of the film Five Came Back (1939) directed by John Farrow. ...

Get Off at the Next Corner! (1948)

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita. ...

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 ...

Lazos de fuego (1948)

Mexican movie ...

El amor abrió los ojos (1947)

Me persigue una mujer (1947)

Smoke in the Eyes (1946)

Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon. ...

Champion Without Crown (1946)

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rou ...

Rayando el sol (1946)

Romantic triangle on the hacienda. ...

Flor de durazno (1945)

City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit. ...

The Mexican (1944)

Felipe Rivera is a mysterious, dedicated young Mexican revolutionary living in exile in Los Angeles. To fund the revolution against Porfirio Díaz, Rivera fights in rigged boxing matches, using his immense, revenge-fueled determination to triumph and purch ...

Balajú (1944)

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Porfirio Díaz (1944)

Mexican movie ...

Tres hermanos (1943)

The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII. ...

Los miserables (1943)

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings. ...

Ave sin nido (1943)

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

The Bloody Inn (1943)

Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises. ...

Yolanda (1943)

About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportati ...

Lo que sólo el hombre puede sufrir (1943)

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I'm a Real Mexican (1942)

Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda. ...

Passion Island (1942)

1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that i ...

La abuelita (1942)

Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health. ...

Secreto Eterno (1942)

The Story of a Woman's Redemption ...

Regalo de reyes (1942)

Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas. ...

La gallina clueca (1941)

Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family. ...

Viviré otra vez (1940)

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him. ...

Café Concordia (1939)

During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to ...

La casa del ogro (1939)

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons. ...

Hombres del aire (1939)

Hombres del mar (1938)

A 1938 film. ...

La zandunga (1938)

It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. ...

Bajo el cielo de México (1937)

San Simón de los Magueyes (1973)

The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation. ...

Esposa te doy (1957)

Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce. ...