Eduardo Alcaraz

Friar Juan

A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.

The Year of the Plague

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

La Güera Rodríguez

In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.

Cuernos debajo de la cama

A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers.

The Sin of a Mother

A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...

Who Killed Grandpa?

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.

Trip to the Moon

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.

Nunca es tarde para amar

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.

Rigo is Love

Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.

El testamento

After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.

Camelia

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.

Los enredos de una gallega

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.

La muerte de Pancho Villa

After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.

La Martina

Martina is a liberal woman who arrives to a small town, with his godfather. Here, Martina will met with her secret love, a typical "macho-ranchero" man, demanding her hand in matrimony. But he rejects Martina, claiming that she's not virgin and will return her to the godfather. When the godfather dies, Martina finds herself alone, and she'll begin a sexual adventure with almost the last men in the town, even with the shy chaplain.

La visita que no tocó el timbre

Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.

Valentín de la Sierra

Based on the corrido of Valentín de la Sierra, one of the revolutionary leaders who forged the armed struggle in Mexican history. The abuses of the Porfirista government against the humble people lead Valentín to lead a large-scale armed uprising.

Hijas casaderas

Mexican feature film

The Great Adventure

A humorous adventure story about two boys chasing after their dog who was kicked out of the church, and facing all kinds of, some real and some imagined, trouble, both for them and the dog.

Cuando me vaya

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.

Buenas y con... movidas

Sex-worker tries to pose as a society matron long enough to receive a visit from her daughter, the daughter's fiancé and his family.

The Champion Cyclist

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: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...

Historia de un abrigo de mink

Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.

Pablo y Carolina

Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."

El bombero atómico

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 goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

Mi desconocida esposa

After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.

The Body Snatcher

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

Fruto prohibido

A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.

La entrega de Chucho el Roto

Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.

El señor fotógrafo

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Spring in the Heart

Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.

El vendedor de muñecas

A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.

Pilotos de la muerte

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

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!

Como perros y gatos

Teen romance comedy.

Vivir para amar

Rigo Tovar plays “Tony Franco”, a singer who rises to fame and balances his new lifestyle while trying to keep up with everyone back home.

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

El carita

Door-to-door salesman of beauty products gets involved in comical misadventures and riotous high jinks. Also throwing buckets of water and handfuls of colored goop.

Dos pintores pintorescos

Two house-painters go to art school. Also bad guys try to kill them.

Si yo fuera diputado

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 other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'

Drop the Curtain

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.

Un Quijote sin mancha

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.

Your Excellency

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 in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

Por mis pistolas

Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.

Conserje en Condominio

After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.

El Barrendero

A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.

Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Ella y Yo

Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.

Rebellion of the Hanged

A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.

Far from Heaven

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.

The Third Word

The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.

Las locuras de Tin Tan

Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.

School for Tramps

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

Mi campeón

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

School for Buglars

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

The Phantom of the Operetta

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.

The Hidden One

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 Black Widow

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.

Adventures of Juliancito

Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo.

Comedians of the League

The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.

El cuerpazo del delito

Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.

The Cha Cha Cha Widows

Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then...

Vuelve el ojo de vidrio

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.

Unfaithful Wives

A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.

Sangre en Rio Bravo

Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.

Un nuevo modo de amar

A phony psychic convinces a young widow that her nest husband will die soon after the wedding... so she tells her fiancé to take a number, and marries a rando to sidestep that problem.

La sierra del terror

Federal police agent goes undercover to bust rural crime ring. Series western.

Una lección de amor

An older gentleman takes responsibility for molding a young showgirl's career; there seems to be a romantic link between them, but she has lots of side-pieces running around, and a serious boyfriend waiting in the wings...

Zorro, The Gay Blade

In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.

Aladdin and the Marvelous Lamp

Mexican feature film

The Medallion of Crime

Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.

Meat in Prison

Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.

Cárcel de Mujeres

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.

La adúltera

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.

Vanilla, Bronze and to Die

A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.

Damned City!

A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.

The Brave One

A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.

¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza!

Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels.

La mujer de oro

Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.

¡Viva la juventud!

Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is mistaken for the best player in the Polytechnic, while in the Unam a student discovers a formula for superpowers to play football. Both compete for the love of a rookie and to win the students classic.

Casadas en Apuros

Comedy about infidelities between several engaged couples.

El tunco Maclovio

Maclovio, an infamous gunfighter with only one hand, is hired by a rich lady to kill her daughters boyfriend. Maclovio believes he can live in peace after the job but a mysterious man who claims to have unfinished business with him appears.

Un minuto de bondad

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