Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.
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.
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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.
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
Felipe Rivera is a mysterious, dedicated young Mexican revolutionary living in exile in Los Angeles. To fund the revolution against Porfirio Díaz, Rivera fights in rigged boxing matches, using his immense, revenge-fueled determination to triumph and purchase weapons for the cause.
Mexican movie
A 1938 film.
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
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 commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up marrying Ramón but gets pregnant when Geraldo rapes her.
Mexican movie
Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.
Army officer goes undercover to investigate political unrest in a border state.
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
Two spoiled rich kids learn to value their father's working-class heritage.
A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.
Shipboard romance/comedy between a female executive and a guy with a lot of buttons on his tunic.
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.
A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
Cesar Rubio, a school teacher in the city, is fired for staying true to his ideals and values, and is also accused of encouraging rebellion among his students, who were demanding the principal's resignation through a strike.
A single, hard-working, girl looks to improve her situation by becoming a "kept woman". In doing so, she turns away from church and family, thereby violating the mandates of both God and Man.
Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
Adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel Sobre la misma tierra. A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her position in white society.
Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer.
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes for vacations.
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation.
The story of four charming girls in a small town, trying to hang out with four boys.
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret and never be able to undo.
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.
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.
Melodrama about marital infidelity.
Doña Margarita, a lady of high society, wants for her son Pablo a wife of the same social level. He, however, loves the dressmaker’s daughter, whom he secretly marries thanks to the services of a priest friend. The couple must continue fighting against the matron’s crooked plans, until in an unfortunate accident, Pablo kills his wife’s stepfather and must flee to Europe. Years pass, and Pablo is unaware that he has a son. When he finally returns, thanks to the child, he reunites with the love of his life and definitively puts an end to the perverse plans of his mother.
Driven from their homestead by bandits, three brothers and sisters form an outlaw crew of their own and hide out in the mountains, orchestrating their revenge.
A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his way out of his marriage and set things right with his previous fiance...
Mexican movie
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.
A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.
Young woman manipulates all three of the men of the hacienda, planning to marry the father and play with one or both of the young ones.
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street. They sell lottery and newspapers. When older, they became artists.
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
Mexican medical researchers are lost in a plane crash in the Amazon basin, which triggers a whole bunch of adventure-movie subplots.
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
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 of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
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.
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals and marginal people can make a home there... and as the population grows, their self-policing efforts turn the whole town into a model community.
Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger.
Comedy/drama about railroad workers.
Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
Mexican feature film
A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?
Cowboy-justice guy breaks up a criminal gang who are terrorizing a small town with the appearance of vampire activity.
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Two unknown performers try to break into television. Meanwhile, a guy that calls himself 'El Vengador' is doing a Phantom of the Opera number on the studio executives...
Cowboy on a revenge trip gets caught up in the sadistic games of some black-hats and goes through a whole narrative cycle with them before discovering the identity of the people he was originally looking for.
Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.
Spoiled rich girl has massive temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way; a business associate kidnaps her to his private island to teach her a lesson and also tempestuous tropical love connections.
Controlling papa won't let his daughters have boyfriends.
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
After ambushing a brewery’s money truck, four gangsters hide out in the attic of a gangster’s lover while the police search the city. As the heat closes in, jealousy, desire, and mistrust begin to fracture the gang from within.
Mexican feature film
Life changes for an Andean family when oil wealth and a fugitive arrive in town.
Aurora’s life changes when her younger sister is brutally assaulted and killed. Seeking justice, she tracks down the attacker and kills him, then escapes the law and rises as the feared outlaw “The Red Virgin".
When the doctor's city girlfriend falls ill, a handsome rancher takes her to his ranch to get better. It's a disastrous decision, as he and the lady begin to fall in love and secretly meet. As the wedding day approaches, Rodolfo tries to make her forget about the doctor for the sake of his love.
Mexican movie
In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
Reyes Mendoza (Carmen Sevilla) is a Spanish artist who arrives in Mexico in 1913 and finds herself involved in the Pancho Villa (Jose Elias Moreno) revolution.
Benedito the barber, mocked by everyone in the village, lathers the head of a blind customer just as the man regains his sight. Benedito becomes a celebrity, and everyone seeks his services.