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.
Friends, co-workers and clients reminisce about a recently-deceased sex-worker.
"Nuestro Juramento" is the life of the singer, Julio Jaramillo, presented episodically, having as background his childhood, youth, his first loves, the apotheosis of his career and his dramatic end. The musicalization of the film has the singles taken from the singer's original recordings.
Young woman looking for a rich husband, sets her sights on a very pious and old-fashioned neighbor.
Heirs of a bankrupt relative decide that the only way they can avoid sacrificing their inherited property to pay debts is by opening a brothel.
Mom and Pop Aguilar and their two boys tour the island.
Mauricio is a photographer that works for a very important advertisement company. It all starts with Mauricio's work being criticized by the company, to which Mauricio jumps into the discussion and explains to the company that his idea was misinterpreted, and quits. Mauricio bent on revenge, and promises to be enemy number one of his former employers, sets off and works so hard photographing so many models, that he develops a click that when he blinks his eyes, he can see anybody in their underwear. A lot of Mauricio charm, famous quotes and pranks in this movie, very entertaining and beautiful women for that time. Very recommendable.
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
A gang of bikers wrecks havoc.
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.
Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
Someone who wears a blue mask, is squat and has giant hands are killing people and stealing jewelry and money. The witnesses are afraid to talk, despite the detective understands that the clues point to his friend Blue Demon. This is actually an evil plan hatched by the Count and a fighter called ' The Cossack ', taking revenge on Blue. In both the real Blue Demon campaign starts with his secretary and a detective to unravel the mystery.
Lured to a demented playboy's secluded castle for a romantic evening, unsuspecting women become dinner for his 1000 cats.
The female employees at a nightclub go on a strike.
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he decided to do it in Mexico with Mexican actors and recreating the Colombian landscapes in that country.
Police officer dismissed from the force for excessive use of force, is hired as a hitman for some unnamed shadow organization.
Santo and Blue Demon take on a 300-year-old witch with a nasty attitude. She raises a legion of zombies and sends them to fight Santo in his home and in the rings.
The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best friend to a young man, in a friendship that becomes so very close that the younger man murders his wife. He is helped by the other man. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police. So he also kills his wife.
A crossdresser who robs victims of nightclubs is caught and sent to a women's prison.
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.
Sonia meets Roberto, a miserable actor with a few days left of life. Both fall in love, but soon after a policeman comes looking after Sonia, but is distracted by a countess during New Years Eve. Sonia and Roberto take this chance to escape.
Federico announces that his dream is to become a great singer; his father does not take it well and gradually distances himself from him. Federico is forced to leave his beautiful home after being accused of theft.
Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.
Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.