René Cardona

When Love Laughs

José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.

Common Clay

A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.

Masajista de señoras

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

The Vengeance of the Crying Woman

Santo and Mantequilla Nápoles team up to end the curse of La Llorona by getting ahold of a special medallion. Unfortunately, La Llorona escapes in the process.

Carne de Cabaret

This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena.

Viva la risa II

Mexican feature film

La Bandida

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.

Tempestad

The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.

Guns and Guts

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.

El pequeño Robin Hood

Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.

La mula de Cullen Baker

A young Cullen Baker rides his mule throughout the old west with his father, when bandits attack them, killing his father. Cullen becomes a loner, again riding a mule through the west and getting into trouble wherever he goes. When a soldier shows him the Colt Dragon revolver, a newly invented six shooter, he becomes obsessed with obtaining this gun as a means to empower himself. After murdering two soldiers and taking their revolvers, Cullen proceeds to rob banks and shoot down anyone who dares confront him.

Soledad

Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.

Zindy, the Swamp Boy

The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson

The Rock of Souls

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.

Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon

1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcome numerous adventures in which their lives are at serious risk.

The Fury of the Karate Experts

An evil priestess and her twin sister battle for control of a powerful crystal.

Santo vs. the Head Hunters

Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead

El conde de Montecristo

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 cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

Jesusita en Chihuahua

Ranchera comedy.

A los cuatro vientos

Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.

Marihuana El Monstruo Verde

Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring.

El secreto del sacerdote

Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.

Si me han de matar mañana

Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.

La barca de oro

Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.

Cartas Marcadas

A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.

Milagros de San Martín de Porres

Mexican feature film

Dos caballeros de espada

It's Mexico in the 1600's. Fifteen years after arriving from Spain, Pedro "Dagoberto Rodríguez" teaches his son Carlos "Rodolfo De Anda" his famous fencing moves. One day as he is going home, Carlos runs into some men who are trying to kidnap two young ladies. While defending them, Carlos kills one of the assistants to the viceroy and has to flee so he can later attempt to prove his innocence. He will have to use all his cunning and swordsmanship to survive the dangers he will face.

La Casa Que Arde de Noche

A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.

Divorciadas

Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives

El abanico de Lady Windermere

A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.

The Brainiac

In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants

Crónica roja

After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.

The Macabre Trunk

A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.

Girl Merchants

A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.

Un novio para dos hermanas

Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.

Los hijos de Rancho Grande

Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.

El genial Detective Peter Pérez

A clumsy investigator must unravel a deadly mystery when a passenger is killed during a long-distance rail journey.

As negro

Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...

Allá en el Rancho Grande

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.

El revólver sangriento

Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.

Con su amable permiso

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.

Los encapuchados del infierno

Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.

Aventuras de las hermanas X

Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.

La ley del más rápido

Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")

El deseo llega de noche

Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a sociopathic prisoner.

La leyenda del bandido

Western with romance subplot.

La hermana Trinquete

Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.

Chanoc en las garras de las fieras

Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.

Manuel Saldivar, el texano

Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.

¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!

Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.

Pito Pérez se va de bracero

Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.

Mala yerba

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

Mulata

In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.

Prisión de mujeres

'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.

Cyclone

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.

The Diabolical Duchess

A rare and impossible to find Mexican adventure / fantasy / horror.

El matrimonio es como el demonio

The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!

El día de la boda

The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.

Operación carambola

Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.

El puma

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.

La casta divina

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 landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.

The Three Perfect Married

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.

Stranger in the House

An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims.

La casa del rencor

A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.

Yo el ejecutor

A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.

¡Que seas feliz!

Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.

Ave sin nido

Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.

La banda de la sotana negra

Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.

Hand to Hand

A 1932 film.

La disputa

The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots.

Peluquero de señoras

Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave like a massive queen for the imposture to work...

Don Juan Tenorio

Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.

Malditas sean las mujeres

A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.

Juana Gallo

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.

La cuna vacía

Male half of a young couple gets distracted from his family duties and considers abandoning his wife and daughter.

Brood of Vipers

Two cousins ​​have always been rivals in everything, and to top it all off, they fall in love with the same woman.

Siempre en domingo

Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.

Night Dance Hall

Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.

The Children of Sanchez

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.

Savage Summer

After a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.

La faraona

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.

El calvario de una esposa

Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family

La vorágine: abismos de amor

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.

Nuevo amanecer

Mexican feature film

El príncipe del desierto

A girl meets a young boy in Arabia who falls in love with her. When they grow up, he goes to Mexico while hiding the fact that he is a prince.