Manuel González

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 ...

Eagle's Wing (1979)

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way. ...

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 ...

La casta divina (1977)

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the lan ...

They Call Him Marcado (1971)

The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town's resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, ...

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 ...

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… ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ". ...

Santo vs. the Vampire Women (1962)

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil. ...

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. ...

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 ...

The Vivanco Ladies (1959)

Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter. ...

Trip to the Moon (1958)

In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things. ...

Pobres millonarios (1957)

Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor. ...

Locos Peligrosos (1957)

A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, t ...

Dios no lo quiera (1957)

A beautiful young woman from the neighborhood falls in love with two rude men, one good and the other bad. ...

The Champion Cyclist (1957)

Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: ...

Teatro del crimen (1957)

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer. ...

The Innocent (1956)

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing ...

Music School (1955)

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. ...

Si yo fuera diputado (1952)

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the ot ...

Doña Perfecta (1951)

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and ...

Daughter of Deceit (1951)

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her. ...

Susana (1951)

The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry. ...

El Siete Machos (1951)

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that s ...

El sol sale para todos (1950)

A bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story. ...

You the Rich (1948)

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

Black Angels (1948)

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. ...

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. ...

Albur de amor (1947)

Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights. ...

El barchante Neguib (1946)

Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942). ...

The disoriented (2017)

Two friends, Grullos and Antuña, reunite in a hospital where they share a room. Life goes on, and when they leave, they go their separate ways. One has unfinished business to settle, while the other wants to make up for lost time. ...