Roberto Gavaldón

Cuando tejen las arañas (1979)

Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship. ...

La playa vacía (1977)

Ends the season and Victoria, widow, mature and owns the beachside motel, does not want to spend another winter alone. To avoid it, buy the company of Paul to continue working for her. Paul agrees, provided remain free and enjoy other women. Days after rea ...

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. ...

The Fungi Man (1976)

Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico. ...

La madrastra (1974)

In Segovia at the beginning of the thirties the hoarder widower and Marcos must be prudent but has relations with the sterile prostitute Mercedes every week. ...

Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo (1973)

A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote recalls some of the adventures they've shared. ...

Doña Macabra (1972)

The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, ...

Las figuras de arena (1970)

Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows. ...

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. ...

Los hijos que yo soñé (1965)

Grieving widow finds new purpose in life as director of an orphanage. ...

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. ...

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 White Rose (1961)

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property. ...

El Siete de Copas (1960)

Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance. ...

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 ...

Beyond All Limits (1959)

This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife h ...

Ash Wednesday (1958)

1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were dep ...

La rebelión de la sierra: El Fin de Heraclio Bernal (1958)

Third and last film in the trilogy about Heraclio Bernal. Heraclio continues his fight against the Federales in the Juarista era. ...

El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal (1958)

Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy. ...

Here is Heraclius Bernal (1958)

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in 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. ...

Historia de un amor (1956)

Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple's life—until one day the girl's grandfather appears. ...

The Littlest Outlaw (1955)

Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the anim ...

De carne somos (1955)

Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living. ...

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 ...

Untouched (1954)

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in ...

Camelia (1954)

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan. ...

The Boy and the Fog (1953)

Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband. ...

The Three Perfect Married (1953)

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings. ...

Remember to Live (1953)

In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of y ...

Soledad's Shawl (1952)

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most. ...

Night Falls (1952)

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge. ...

In the Palm of Your Hand (1951)

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat? ...

Desired (1951)

A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her. ...

My Life for Yours (1951)

During a mother's dream comes up Gloria Rivas as a vamp who crushes her son's life. ...

Rosauro Castro (1950)

Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved r ...

The Love Nest (1950)

Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his com ...

Tongolele Has Been Killed (1948)

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

Adventures of Casanova (1948)

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one ...

The Kneeling Goddess (1947)

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary. ...

La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra (1947)

The Other (1946)

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister. ...

Rayando el sol (1946)

Romantic triangle on the hacienda. ...

El socio (1946)

A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ... ...

Corazones de México (1945)

Mexican movie ...

The Barracks (1945)

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers. ...

El niño de las monjas (1944)

It tells the story of a boy from an orphanage, raised in a convent, who saves a young woman who supports the institution from being gored by a bull, and later leaves the convent to follow the girl he had helped and to become a bullfighter. ...

Naná (1944)

Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. ...

Caminito alegre (1944)

An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions. ...

Tormenta en la cumbre (1943)

Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines. ...

El baisano Jalil (1942)

Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Seli ...

El conde de Montecristo (1942)

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable ...

Las cinco noches de Adán (1942)

Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him. ...

Rancho Alegre (1941)

Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college to set things aright... or does he have other plans? ...

Café Concordia (1939)

During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to ...

La bestia negra (1939)

Comedy/drama about railroad workers. ...

Su adorable majadero (1939)

A young prankster impersonates his friend in front of the university rector's daughter. ...

La tierra del mariachi (1938)

Young woman's father, with the help of the boyfriend he prefers for her, spreads a rumor that the guy she likes better was already married. ...

Ave sin rumbo (1937)

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas? ...

El derecho y el deber (1937)

Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man. ...

Cielito lindo (1936)

A 1936 film. ...

Marihuana (El monstruo verde) (1936)

An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia. ...

Celos (1936)

Story about the rocky relationship between an engaged couple after the husband-to-be discovers a picture of his fiancée with an old boyfriend. He becomes consumed with jealousy and attempts to find out as many details as possible about her life before the ...

The Dead Speak (1935)

Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unp ...

El cine mexicano de fiesta (1958)

La sangre manda (1934)

Prisoner 13 (1933)

Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a b ...