Gabriel Figueroa

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell (1986)

Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman. ...

Under the Volcano (1984)

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The ...

The Heart of the Night (1984)

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become r ...

Mundo mágico (1983)

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance. ...

El héroe desconocido (1983)

An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a st ...

Mexico 2000 (1983)

In Olympus the Gods decide to exterminate humanity, after deliberating one of the gods advocates not to exterminate those who live in Mexico, which in the year 2000 is a paradise where all calamities have been extinguished. ...

D.F./Distrito Federal (1981)

Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city. ...

The Border (1980)

Frank Cooper, a senior immigration police, remains a daily struggle against mafias operating between Mexico and the United States. Although it has a good standing with the poorest of Mexican towns near the border. Two are Leina and Benny, a couple of young ...

At a Lame Pace (1980)

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising. ...

Te quiero (1979)

Claudia is a young executive who works with her father in a successful company. When Claudia's father finds out that his daughter suffers from a serious illness, he plans a trip to the Caribbean Sea so that she can enjoy the last days of her life and he ev ...

The House of the Pelican (1978)

An elementary school teacher tries to rebuild her life with her son, which is the result of a rape in a distant city. ...

Los hijos de Sanchez (1978)

The Sanchez clan have seen the worst of times, but they have survived by sticking together. When Sanchez's oldest daughter Consuelo plans to build a life of her own, the family and Sanchez face an enormous challenge. ...

Cananea (1978)

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour. ...

The Children of Sanchez (1978)

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to pr ...

Divine Words (1978)

Mari Gaila (Silvia Pinal), is an adulteress who lives between ragged, thieves, prostitutes, dwarfs and other misshapen beings, in a rare box at a country and a vague time. Her husband, is a poor sacristan who agrees with other relatives to do business with ...

Balún Canán (1977)

Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas' land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inh ...

Maten al León (1977)

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion). ...

Life Changes (1976)

An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn... ...

Coronation (1976)

The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house. ...

The Cry of the Turtle (1975)

Two young, millionaire couples are commemorating the birthday of one of them. Jealousy, desire and ambition will end in tragedy and a dead man. ...

The Dogs of God (1974)

After a near-drowning, Laura moves through four social worlds under different names, obsessed with God's infinite mercy and provoking sin to test forgiveness. ...

Omen (1974)

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals. ...

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. ...

The Master of Ballantrae (1974)

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate. ...

El amor tiene cara de mujer (1973)

The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life. ...

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. ...

Interval (1973)

An emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula... ...

The She Wolf's Orgy (1972)

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

The Children of Satan (1972)

Two sworn enemies must put aside their differences and join forces to catch a gang of thieves led by a woman called "The Yara". They must fight to save their village from the bandits and do everything necessary to prevent The Yara from controlling their de ...

María (1972)

Romance melodrama set in 19th century Colombia. ...

El cielo y tú (1971)

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

El profe (1971)

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through ...

La Generala (1971)

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the re ...

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines. ...

The Phantom Gunslinger (1970)

The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others. The sheriff leaves town, but not before naming Bill as his suc ...

Narda or The Summer (1970)

Two friends on a summer getaway find and fall for a mysterious woman who will change their lives forever. ...

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a ...

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. ...

Pax? (1968)

Mexican experimental feature film, made for the 1968 olympics. ...

The Chinese Room (1968)

An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict. ...

Corazón salvaje (1968)

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to m ...

Mariana (1968)

As a teenager and student at a convent school, young Mariana runs away with her boyfriend, provoking the wrath of her father who sends her to Switzerland for ten years. ...

The Scapular (1968)

A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead. ...

The Angels of Puebla (1968)

An angel who is three good deeds short of earning his wings chooses the city of Puebla to carry out her mission. ...

El asesino se embarca (1967)

Cops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship. ...

Savage Sunday (1967)

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

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 ...

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… ...

Forbidden Cargo (1966)

Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport. ...

¡Viva Benito Canales! (1966)

Campesino with leadership qualities is indecisive about whether he should join the Revolution or concentrate on improving conditions at his farm, also about whether he cares about the nice girl he grew up with or the fancy woman who runs the local brothel. ...

Los Cuatro Juanes (1966)

Juan Sin Fiedo (Javier Solis), Juan Colorado (Antonio Aguilar), Juan Pistolas (Luis Aguilar) and Juan Charrasqueado join their destinies during the Mexican Revolution. ...

Love Love Love (1965)

Four stories: The encounter between a soldier and a widow in a cemetery. A woman arrives as a maid in an unknown city where she discovers love. Another woman is tasked with caring for her lecherous uncle on his deathbed. A young man gets into trouble with ...

The Two Elenas (1965)

Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless, constantly criticized by her mother, also named Elena, who is very refined, correct and bourgeois. The three of them ...

Lola of My Life (1965)

Dolores, an innocent country girl, arrives as a maid to a rich house, where she meets a street vendor with whom she falls in love, until the dangers of the city catch up with her. ...

The Beloved Ones (1965)

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings. ...

A Pure Soul (1965)

Second of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). Claudia, a young aristocratic girl travels to Switzerland to recover the corpse of her brother, Juan Luis. As she flies back home to Mexico, in flashback it is re ...

Simon of the Desert (1965)

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him. ...

Los tres calaveras (1965)

A Mexican music trío go through friendships and hardships in order to be famous and travel to Spain. ...

Escuela para solteras (1965)

All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies. ...

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. ...

The Night of the Iguana (1964)

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. ...

En la mitad del mundo (1964)

Mexican-Ecuadorian film from 1964, originally titled: 'The Misadventures of Don Ventura'. A musical comedy created in the style of traditional classic Hollywood cinema of the 1950s, with the purpose of promoting Ecuador to the world through an idyllic visi ...

The Posthumous Honors to the Distinguished Authors (1964)

The posthumous ceremony to honor Mexico's national anthem's authors. ...

Entrega Inmediata (1963)

Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy. ...

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 Bandida (1963)

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman. ...

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 ". ...

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. ...

The Important Man (1961)

Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens. Animas has ...

The White Rose (1961)

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property. ...

Juana Gallo (1961)

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements. ...

The Young One (1960)

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions. ...

Impaciencia del corazón (1960)

Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' cr ...

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 ...

La estrella vacía (1960)

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama. ...

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 ...

La Cucaracha (1959)

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier. ...

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, ...

Isla para dos (1959)

Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married. ...

Beyond All Limits (1959)

This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife h ...

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. ...

Carabina 30-30 (1958)

Rom-com set during Mexican Revolution. ...

The Smile of the Virgin (1958)

Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where sh ...

Love of a Cabaret Singer (1958)

Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and... ...

La rebelión de la sierra: El Fin de Heraclio Bernal (1958)

Third and last film in the trilogy about Heraclio Bernal. Heraclio continues his fight against the Federales in the Juarista era. ...

El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal (1958)

Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy. ...

Una cita de amor (1958)

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect t ...

Here is Heraclius Bernal (1958)

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series. ...

Sueños de oro (1958)

El bolero de Raquel (1957)

The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy. ...

The Hidden One (1956)

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader. ...

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 ...

People, Song and Hope (1956)

Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia. ...

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. ...

La doncella de piedra (1956)

Adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel Sobre la misma tierra. A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her position in white society. ...

La Tierra del Fuego se apaga (1955)

In the faraway lands of the south of the Patagonia, in a town made up of wrongdoers and thieves, a mysterious and solitary man takes a prostitute to live with him at his ranch. However, her past follows her, and he is forced to face it head on. ...

Estafa de amor (1955)

Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness. ...

La mujer X (1955)

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son. ...

El monstruo en la sombra (1955)

La rosa blanca (1954)

Take Me in Your Arms (1954)

To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star. ...

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. ...

Rebellion of the Hanged (1954)

A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses. ...

The Boy and the Fog (1953)

Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband. ...

Anxiety (1953)

Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to t ...

El señor fotógrafo (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 ...

Él (1953)

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath. ...

When the Fog Lifts (1952)

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family. ...

Soledad's Shawl (1952)

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most. ...

El enamorado (1952)

Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he works. However, Martin has to return in principle to help a friend from robbers. ...

The Straying Rooster (1952)

A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate. ...

Ahí viene Martín Corona (1952)

Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against the pri ...

The Sea and You (1952)

A man long thought dead returns to his fishing village home to find the love he left married to the village's top power broker, a man who control's the fish production with an iron fist. ...

Siempre tuya (1952)

Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer. ...

La bienamada (1951)

Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n... ...

Las Islas Marias (1951)

Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man. ...

Pecado (1951)

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. ...

The Young and the Damned (1950)

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others. ...

One Day of Life (1950)

A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his for ...

The Torch (1950)

The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change. ...

Duelo en las montañas (1950)

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love. ...

Prisión de sueños (1949)

Luis el Roto is a laborer who, due to a lack of money, cannot marry his girlfriend Rosa; they live in a poor alleyway with their respective mothers. Luis is loved by the prostitute Carlota, and for this reason he despises the pimp Rodolfo, who beats Luis i ...

The Unloved Woman (1949)

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man ...

El embajador (1949)

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. ...

Midnight (1949)

A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town. ...

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 ...

Hidden River (1948)

Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain. ...

The Fugitive (1947)

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest. ...

The Pearl (1947)

Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the dis ...

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 Last Adventure (1946)

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again. ...

Cantaclaro (1946)

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself. ...

One Day with the Devil (1945)

Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being. ...

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 ...

The Abandoned (1945)

A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico. ...

El corsario negro (1944)

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

La Fuga (1944)

A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention. ...

The Black Ace (1944)

This is the story of a convict fellow whose brother is a bright scientist that discovers a vaccine against a deadly infection. The clash between good and evil moves the convict to search into his soul and find the goodness that will lead him to the ultimat ...

The Headless Woman (1944)

A magician suspected of having killed a colleague is arrested by the police, but his assistant helps him escape. ...

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 ...

Another Dawn (1943)

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-an ...

Wild Flower (1943)

The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Join ...

El circo (1943)

A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlf ...

The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland (1942)

On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe. ...

Story of a Great Love (1942)

Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love. ...

The Three Musketeers (1942)

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne. ...

Cuando viajan las estrellas (1942)

A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both dislike each other at first, things may change. ...

Mi viuda alegre (1942)

A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado. ...

La gallina clueca (1941)

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

La casa del rencor (1941)

Martina, a sorrowful woman, is the sole inhabitant of an abandoned and eerie house, where a couple arrives on a stormy night seeking shelter. Martina tells them how what was once a happy hacienda turned into a hell filled with resentment when Doña Adelaid ...

The Unknown Policeman (1941)

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle ...

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! (1941)

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy. ...

El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)

Every passenger boarding The Express has a story. ...

Ni sangre ni arena (1941)

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a ...

Creo en Dios (1941)

A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes. ...

The Mad Monk (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo. ...

Con su amable permiso (1940)

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw. ...

El jefe máximo (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes. ...

Allá en el Trópico (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes. ...

¡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 ...

La canción del milagro (1940)

A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar. ...

The Night of the Mayans (1939)

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

La bestia negra (1939)

Comedy/drama about railroad workers. ...

La casa del ogro (1939)

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

Mientras México duerme (1938)

A 1938 film. ...

Refugiados en Madrid (1938)

A 1938 film. ...

La Adelita (1937)

Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution. ...

Let's Go with Pancho Villa! (1936)

The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the tragedies a ...

Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936)

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager. ...

Cielito lindo (1936)

A 1936 film. ...

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. ...

Notes from Under the Volcano (1984)

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984). ...

Observations Under the Volcano (1984)

Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano. ...

México de mis amores (1979)

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period. ...

On the Trail of the Iguana (1964)

Behind the scenes documentary of the filming of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. ...

El cine mexicano de fiesta (1958)