Augusto Benedico

The Exterminating Angel

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

Santo vs. the Vampire Women

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.

The Clutching Hand

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

Santo vs. the King of Crime

El Santo and his loyal friends will try to disarm a dangerous criminal organization.

The Cubs

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.

Cuatro hombres marcados

Cowboy detective investigates two murders.

El pueblo del terror

Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime

El gran autor

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.

Santo in the Hotel of Death

Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.

The Big Cube

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

La cigüeña dijo sí

Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.

Jalisco nunca pierde

Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.

Yesenia

A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.

No One Will Love You Like I Do

A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.

Remolino de pasiones

Gigolo devises underhanded schemes to insinuate himself into the lives of the wife and daughter of a rich man with a terminal illness.

Yo pecador

Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.

The Door and the Butcher's Wife

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 Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

Pedro Paramo

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

The She Wolf's Orgy

A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.

El cielo y tú

Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.

Love Your Neighbor

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.

Aunt Isabel's Garden

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

Doña Perfecta

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

La hermana blanca

A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.

Las recién casadas

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.

Las amiguitas de los ricos

On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.

Después de la tormenta

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 shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.

La venenosa

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.

Siete pecados

Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.

Concurso de belleza

Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow.

Dios sabrá juzgarnos

Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.

Unfaithful Wives

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

Mi vida es una canción

Young pop singer finds his niche in the entertainment industry.

The New Invisible Man

A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.

Prisionera del recuerdo

Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer.

Sabrás que te quiero

Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.

Sin salida

Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."

Secreto de confesión

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.

The Monastery of the Vultures

In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide.

The Illegitimate

Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.

Historia de un amor

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.

They Say I'm a Communist

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 as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.