Manuel Alvarado

Adriana del Rio, actriz (1979)

Las cenizas del diputado (1977)

A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own. ...

Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast. ...

The Minister and Me (1976)

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a grea ...

Tivoli (1975)

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption. ...

Masajista de señoras (1973)

This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures. ...

Shark (1969)

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one. ...

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 ...

Por mis pistolas (1968)

Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way i ...

Macabre Serenade (1968)

Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions. ...

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. ...

Tres mil kilómetros de amor (1967)

Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara. ...

The Panther Women (1967)

The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring. ...

La Valentina (1966)

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina. ...

El tragabalas (1966)

Piporro doesn't need to use his gun to get away with murder. ...

Guitarras lloren guitarras (1965)

Juan from Altamira, Tamaulipas, arrives at the train station in the capital and is assaulted by Gus. As he finds only ten dollars in his wallet, he believes that Juan brings more money and offers him accommodation in his room to pay the rent. Juan is dedic ...

She-Wolves of the Ring (1965)

Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring. ...

De color moreno (1963)

El señor Tormenta (1963)

Wrestling melodrama: crooked gamblers, boy/girl stuff and a priest who needs money to run his orphanage. ...

El Extra (1962)

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foi ...

Pilotos de la muerte (1962)

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers. ...

Neutron and the Black Mask (1962)

Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula. ...

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 ...

Casi Casados (1961)

A poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and dealing. Sure enough, the impostor is trapped in a series of circumstances beyond his control that lead him right ...

The Last Sunset (1961)

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things. ...

The Black Horseman (1961)

A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered. ...

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. ...

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage. ...

Our Daily Hunger (1960)

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday. ...

Ship of the Monsters (1960)

A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus. ...