Lilia Prado

Hembras De Tierra Caliente (1991)

A small rural town projects all of their real and perceived sins and transgressions on the town's "sexy" girl. ...

Two Kinds of Schemes (1989)

Gold-digger conspires with gal-pal to snag herself a rich husband. ...

La Puerta Negra (1988)

A horse breeder needs to acquire his rival's horse at the same time protecting his three beautiful daughters from marrying three musicians who work for his rival. ...

Más Buenas que el Pan (1987)

After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try to keep Lalo's daughters away from perverted boys. ...

Cinco nacos asaltan Las Vegas (1987)

Five friends decide to go to Las Vegas to get money and one of them thinks of robbing a casino. ...

Arriba Michoacán (1987)

The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have boyfriend troubles, and all the women band together to vote their own representative into City Hall as Mayor ...

Lovers of the Lord of the Night (1986)

Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the mer ...

The Promised Land? (1986)

Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City. ...

Emanuelo (1984)

Adiós Lagunilla, adiós (1984)

Middle-aged couple's adult children decide to emigrate to USA. Third movie in trilogy. ...

Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico (1981)

Occupation of Darkness (1981)

Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the ...

Mojado de nacimiento (1981)

El cara parchada (1980)

Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't. ...

Ratero (1979)

Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom ...

El fuego de mi ahijada (1979)

Young Raúl looks for his ex-girlfriend Alicia to resume their relationship, but she responds that she doesn't love him anymore. The young woman lives with her godfather Marcial in a hotel he owns. ...

La India (1976)

Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come to see her... ...

Mexico De Noche (1975)

Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry. ...

Los Valientes de Guerrero (1974)

Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all to further her plans. ...

Faith, Hope and Charity (1974)

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

Nest of Virgins (1972)

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

El medio pelo (1972)

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values. ...

The Castaway on the Street of Providence (1971)

Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home. ...

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez (1970)

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him. ...

Duelo en El Dorado (1969)

Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is likely to catch up with him. ...

Rancho solo (1967)

The film is a typical whodunit story, combined with a "ranchero" and western flavor. A young engineer arrives to his godfather hacienda, along with his fiancée. But the things got complicated when the godfather's wife reveals that she had an affair with t ...

La vida de Pedro Infante (1966)

Standard biopic... ...

Audaz y bravero (1965)

Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character. ...

The Crows are Grieving (1965)

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance. ...

El asesino enmascarado (1962)

Hero vs bad-guy western. ...

El rey de la pistola (1962)

Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff and each other. ...

Little Town (1962)

Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district. ...

Asesinos de la lucha libre (1962)

Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter. ...

Cuanto vale tu hijo (1962)

Family life in a squatter's-rights neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. ...

El malvado Carabel (1961)

Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime. ...

El analfabeto (1961)

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the ...

Senda prohibida (1961)

The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer. ...

Dos Maridos baratos (1960)

Two showgirls need to find husbands in order to collect an inheritance. ...

Vuelta al paraíso (1960)

All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there. ...

Dicen que soy hombre malo (1960)

Mistaken identities, courtship woes, invalidated marriages, and sombreros de charro. ...

Sand kisses (1959)

Romantic rivalries and violence on a tropical island. ...

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. ...

Kermesse (1959)

Four young couples cement their primary relationships during the town fair. ...

I'm flying low (1959)

Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other. ...

La reina del cielo (1959)

A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the outskirts. Coromoto's fears are increased because of the presence of a snake and the prophecies of the sorcer ...

Mis secretarias privadas (1959)

Ladrones de niños (1958)

Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA. ...

Yo quiero ser artista (1958)

The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge. ...

A Media Luz Los Tres (1958)

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married. ...

Horas de agonía (1958)

Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark. ...

La locura del rock and roll (1957)

Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games. ...

Talpa (1956)

Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is f ...

The Hawks (1956)

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the e ...

La Vida No Vale Nada (1955)

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him. ...

Después de la tormenta (1955)

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shatte ...

Wuthering Heights (1954)

In 19th-century Mexico, young orphan Alejandro is adopted by the wealthy, landowning Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Catalina. The two share a remarkable bond ...

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 ...

Cuarto de hotel (1953)

Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again. ...

Rumba caliente (1952)

Stage-hand and a concession-girl try to break into showbiz. ...

Las interesadas (1952)

Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's recovering, they also make friends with a homeless man. And then... ...

Tío de mi vida (1952)

Hard-partying college student wants his parents to think he's a serious and respectable young man, so Uncle Felipe pays all his bills and takes the blame for his misdeeds and wildnesses. ...

Mexican Bus Ride (1952)

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that's interrupted by an increasingly absurd ...

Las tres alegres comadres (1952)

When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they inves ...

Traigo mi 45 (1952)

Mexican feature film ...

My General's Wives (1951)

The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death. ...

Crimen y castigo (1951)

Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective. ...

Heart of beast (1951)

Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard. ...

The Poulterer Hawk (1951)

Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other. ...

Pata de palo (1950)

Boy witnesses a murder, killer terrorizes and exploits him. ...

El desalmado (1950)

Fictional biography of a career criminal. ...

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. ...

Si fuera una cualquiera (1950)

Pobre corazón (1950)

Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad. ...

Love Pays for Love (1950)

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries. ...

Una gallega en México (1949)

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Ro ...

Un milagro de amor (1949)

Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman... ...

Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)

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

Arriba El Norte (1949)

Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella. ...

Novia a la medida (1949)

Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance. ...

Perez Family (1949)

Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him ...

Dueña y señora (1948)

After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he? ...

Tongolele Has Been Killed (1948)

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

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. ...

Tania, the Beautiful Wild Girl (1948)

Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another m ...

Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu. ...

Nocturno de amor (1948)

Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and b ...

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? ...