Manuel López Ochoa

Two Kinds of Schemes (1989)

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

La tumba de Matías (1988)

Gambler with a heart condition races the clock to get his mausoleum finished. His wife and her lover wait on the sidelines. ...

Cacería de Traficantes (1983)

After his son is murdered by drug dealers, a man decides to take revenge. ...

Ay Chihuahua no te rajes (1980)

Guy from Chihuahua is hugely prejudiced against people from the state of Jalisco... until he finds out he has a son there. After that he figures out that he's only angry at one Jalisco family that did his grandpappy dirt, back in the day. ...

Padre nuestro que estas en la tierra (1972)

Single father with a disability struggles to raise his son. ...

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. ...

Me he de comer esa tuna (1972)

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents. ...

El inolvidable Chucho el Roto (1971)

Adventure-story feats and family melodrama centered around an 1880s Robin Hood type figure. Fourth of four in a series. ...

El Quelite (1970)

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds. ...

Los amores de Chucho el Roto (1970)

Gentleman bandit pulls off crafty robberries and frets over having or losing custody of his daughter ...

Little Black Angels (1970)

A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black mother since birth—marries a pop singer. Everybody conspires to protect her from finding out about herself. It's not clear exactly why they do that. ...

Yo soy Chucho el Roto (1970)

Bandit Chucho impersonates a variety of high-society figures to perform a series of playful swindles. ...

La Vida De Chucho El Roto (1970)

Wealthy family opposes the romance between one of their young ladies and a working-class stiff. ...

Quinto patio (1970)

Ramon is a guy who lives in a neighborhood, in the " fifth courtyard " in urban poverty. Nevertheless, aspires to the love of the daughter of his employer, a woman of another social class. ...

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 ...

El corrido del hijo desobediente (1968)

Father and son butt heads over a mutual girlfriend, mostly. ...

Esclava del deseo (1968)

Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger. ...

The Bandits (1967)

Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention. ...

Seguiré tus pasos (1967)

José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love. ...

Alma Grande en el desierto (1967)

Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation. ...

Un Latin lover en Acapulco (1967)

Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover". ...

Los Malditos (1966)

White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns. ...

Me cansé de rogarle (1966)

Lucha Vazquez, a beautiful and wealthy young woman seems pursued by bad luck. She has had two boyfriends who died at the announcement of the wedding. Manuel, a young man from the same town is in love with Lucha, but she fears that if he falls in love, he w ...

Gatillo Veloz (1966)

Quick-draw dude helps to protect a woman and her pa from predatory land-grabbing land-grabbers when they discover a silver mine on their ranch. ...

Los tres pecados (1966)

Alma grande (1966)

Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series. ...

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 ...

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. ...

El último cartucho (1965)

Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice. ...

Nos lleva la tristeza (1965)

Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, ...

Shadow of the Black Hand (1964)

Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan. ...

Los hermanos Barragán (1964)

Cowboy-hero B-western with comical overtones. First of two in series. ...

Los bravos de California (1963)

Zorroesque adventure pitting two swordsmen against a newly-appointed governor who wastes no time in displaying his despotic tendencies. Sequel to En El Viejo California. ...

La garra del leopardo (1963)

Variation on Zorro. Lawyer disguises himself to fight crime, using his secret identity to work on clearing a client and himself of criminal charges. ...

En la vieja California (1963)

Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved. ...

Los parranderos (1963)

Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down their employer's daughter and baby-mama from thirty years earlier. ...

Two Cheerful Hawks (1963)

Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls. ...