Miguel Manzano

Golpe de suerte (1992)

A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working. ...

El inocente y las pecadoras (1990)

An altar boy goes to the city and finds himself in raunchy situations. ...

Violación (1989)

In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel ...

Night of Vultures (1988)

Mexican horror-crime-type film, with a group of young people going on a brutal rape and home-invasion-killing crime spree and filming their escapades with a camcorder as it happens. ...

El vergonzoso (1988)

Softcore sex-farce about a guy with a really big lump in his underpants...and all the women who flock to him. ...

The Scent of Death (1987)

The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems. ...

La ruletera (1987)

Comical misadventures: lady taxi-driver + doofus policemen. ...

El cafre (1986)

Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City. ...

La Pulquería Ataca de Nuevo (1985)

The film continues the outrageous antics of its eccentric patrons and staff, blending slapstick humor, misadventures, and love triangles. As the bar faces more outrageous situations, the characters find themselves in increasingly absurd and funny circumsta ...

The Glories of the Great Púas (1984)

Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career. ...

Lola the Truck Driver (1983)

Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a powerful cartel, with protections at high police levels. Knowing the local officials will not serve out justice ...

Teatro Follies (1983)

Young dancer joins the cast of a musical-comedy production, falls in love with young comic actor. ...

Mi Abuelo, Mi Perro y Yo (1983)

Mexican feature film ...

Burdel (1982)

(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel. ...

Ángela Morante, ¿crimen o suicidio? (1981)

Reporter investigating an actress' death gains an overview of her whole biography. ...

El mil usos (1981)

The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters. ...

Las grandes aguas (1980)

Public-works engineer entrusted with a big project faces problems in his home life and conflicts with a corrupt local businessman. ...

El fayuquero (1979)

Well, there's a guy that runs a stall at A Swap Meet, and... um... I forget. ...

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 ...

...And Woman Made Man (1975)

A completely illiterate general from the Mexican Revolution "wins" a teacher in a game of dice. What happens to him with this woman is something unexpected. ...

Simon Blanco (1975)

The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he ...

El primer amor (1974)

Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood. ...

Diamantes, Oro y Amor (1973)

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. ...

El bastardo (1968)

Your Excellency (1967)

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état i ...

The Clutching Hand (1966)

Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible. ...

This was Pedro Infante (1963)

The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public. ...

El charro Negro contra la banda del cuervo (1963)

Masked hero on horseback,. number 1 of short-lived series. ...

La muerte en el desfiladero (1963)

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago"). ...

El asaltacaminos (1962)

Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago. ...

Camino de la horca (1962)

Gloomy, fatalistic grown-up western. ...

Los cinco halcones (1962)

Elías, a banker and the secret leader of a gang, tries to persuade Pedro—the father of young Laura and little Chava—to sell him his ranch. Five friends—the shopkeeper Trini, the blacksmith Quique, the horseman Cuco, the barber Javier, and the doctor ...

The Happy Musketeers (1961)

The Big Bad Wolf and the Stinky Little Skunk from the Caperucita Roja movies in their final adventure, as swashbuckling 17th century swordsmen in a king's service. ...

Los Jóvenes (1961)

A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve. ...

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 ...

Ay Chabela...! (1961)

Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style. ...

Ellas también son rebeldes (1961)

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people. ...

En carne propia (1961)

Rookie reporter and his publisher's daughter get caught up in a bizarre crime/traffic accident noir dilemma. ...

Amor en la sombra (1960)

A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover. ...

Miracle Roses (1960)

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary. ...

Impaciencia del corazón (1960)

Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' cr ...

Quinceañera (1960)

María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation. ...

Herencia trágica (1960)

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago"). ...

Los tigres del ring (1960)

Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two. ...

La Cucaracha (1959)

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier. ...

Two Ghosts and a Girl (1959)

Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers. ...

Gutierritos (1959)

Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight. ...

El puma (1959)

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series. ...

Thirst for Love (1959)

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. ...

Los hijos ajenos (1959)

Young widower wants a new mommy for his preschool daughter. So to speak. ...

The Vivanco Ladies (1959)

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

El derecho a la vida (1959)

Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office. ...

The Smile of the Virgin (1958)

Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where sh ...

El jinete negro (1958)

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago"). ...

The Man That Pleases Me (1958)

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead. ...

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. ...

Music of Always (1958)

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all. ...

Cuatro copas (1958)

Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist. ...

Música en la noche (1958)

An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder. ...

Pretty sky! (1957)

Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman ...

Furias desatadas (1957)

College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series. ...

Pepito as del volante (1957)

Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete. ...

La culta dama (1957)

A pregnant and very poor woman has no place to give birth, and turns to a society lady for help. ...

Every Child a Cross to Bear (1957)

Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake ...

Backstage (1957)

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth. ...

El ratón (1957)

Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life. ...

La mujer de dos caras (1957)

A beautiful woman will stop at nothing in her quest for money and power. Not even murder. ...

Dos diablitos en apuros (1957)

Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing. ...

This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter (1957)

The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend. ...

Diabolical Kidnapping (1957)

Second film in the Tigres del ring series. ...

The Hidden One (1956)

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader. ...

The Road of Life (1956)

The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the ...

Melodías de amor (1955)

La mujer ajena (1955)

This is the story of a gambler whose mistress is the wife of a renowned philanthropist. The gambler himself is cheating on his mistress with another woman. The secret love triangle gradually becomes public due to the jealousy, ambition, and weaknesses of i ...

El seductor (1955)

A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit. ...

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. ...

Padre contra hijo (1955)

Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango. ...

Las engañadas (1955)

Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years. ...

¡Qué bravas son las costeñas! (1955)

Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts in town. ...

María la Voz (1955)

In rural Mexico, a psychic finds herself caught between warring families while competing with her closest friend for the same man's affections. ...

X Murderer (1955)

A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime. ...

Chucho el Roto (1954)

Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime. ...

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 ...

La entrega (1954)

Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing ...

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 ...

Un minuto de bondad (1954)

A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors. ...

The Magnificent Beast (1953)

Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies. ...

El bombero atómico (1952)

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything g ...

A Woman Without Love (1952)

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend ...

Viajera (1952)

Music teacher gets all tangled up with a nightclub singer, after seeing his students ogling her advertisements. ...

Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!! (1951)

Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option. ...

Engagement ring (1951)

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty. ...

Cárcel de mujeres (1951)

Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven. ...

Menores de edad (1951)

Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications. ...

My General's Wives (1951)

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

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 ...

Todos son mis hijos!... (1951)

Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously. ...

Apartment house (1951)

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house. ...

Capitán de Rurales (1951)

Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government. ...

Sentenciado a muerte (1951)

Aventurera (1950)

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her ...

Las dos huerfanitas (1950)

Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies. ...

La loca de la casa (1950)

A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father. ...

Over the Waves (1950)

The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty. ...

Si me viera don Porfirio (1950)

Perdida (1950)

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and... ...

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. ...

Hay lugar para... dos (1949)

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan! ...

El Mago (1949)

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas. ...

You the Rich (1948)

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

La norteña de mis amores (1948)

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy. ...

The Cockfighter (1948)

In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa. ...

Revancha (1948)

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret. ...

El Supersabio (1948)

Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. ...

Dos de la vida airada (1948)

Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work. ...

El nieto del Zorro (1948)

Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at stake. ...

Those Who Came Back (1948)

A small disparate group of people board a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. A remake of the film Five Came Back (1939) directed by John Farrow. ...

Get Off at the Next Corner! (1948)

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita. ...

¡Ya tengo a mi hijo! (1946)

El superhombre (1946)

1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta. ...

Cuando quiere un mexicano (1944)

Argentine woman stranded in plane-crash, falls for Mexican plantation-owner. ...

Viejo nido (1944)

Mexican movie ...

Jesus of Nazareth (1942)

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion. ...

El milagro de Cristo (1941)

A 1941 Mexican film. ...

Al son de la marimba (1940)

A broken high society man tries to keep his family expensive lifestyle by tricking a rich man from out of the town to marry his well intended daughter. ...

La madrina del diablo (1937)

Set in the 1820s; an unhappy love affair and some family problems drive a young gentleman to banditry. ...