Jorge Arriaga

Lonely Stars (2015)

To the beat of punk and pop, Valentina and Joana pursue their most intimate and deepest dreams. On the road to success, they will find obstacles that will test their friendship. The harshness and absurdity of their lives, fuses with the sweet and sour stor ...

The Shadow of the Tyrant (1960)

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder. ...

Drop the Curtain (1955)

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back. ...

Kid Tabaco (1955)

Tony Ray is not enough to impress Diana thus decides to become a boxer. At last he can have it all: money and feel worthy enough to propose. ...

The River and Death (1954)

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people ...

Frontera norte (1953)

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster. ...

El beisbolista fenómeno (1952)

The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue. ...

Hombres sin alma (1951)

Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them. ...

Mujeres sin mañana (1951)

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub. ...

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 ...

¡… Y murío por nosotros! (1951)

Pecado (1951)

La fe en Dios (1950)

Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish. ...

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. ...

Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution. ...

El charro Negro en el norte (1949)

Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators. ...

Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation. ...

Las puertas del presidio (1949)

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

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. ...

Carta Brava (1949)

Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back. ...

Midnight (1949)

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

You the Rich (1948)

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children. ...

Rosenda (1948)

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her. ...

El Reino de los Gángsters (1948)

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected. ...

We the Poor (1948)

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony. ...

El muchacho alegre (1948)

Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with. ...

Back Streets of Juarez (1947)

In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past reappears unexpectedly. ...

La casa colorada (1947)

Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama. ...

When the Brave Cry (1947)

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times. ...

La reina del trópico (1946)

A movie about people and stuff. ...

Canaima (1945)

Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him. ...

Camino de Sacramento (1945)

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

Tormenta en la cumbre (1943)

Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines. ...

How Beautiful is Michoacan! (1943)

When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love. ...

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 ...

Canto a mi tierra (1938)

Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town. ...