Luis Alcoriza

Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and...

The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...

Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous...

Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and...

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to...

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many...

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.

Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people....

Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people....

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.

Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from...

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he...

Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he...

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...

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an...

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an...

A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.

A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a...

A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his ​​family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found...

A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his ​​family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found...

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true...

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to...

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to...

A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people....

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.

Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.

Two women form The League of Girls invite an interesting repertoire of young ladies to become members and get rid of men and all the evils that come...

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

By-the-numbers boxing melodrama.

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.

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

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life...

Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband,...

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true...

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...

In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a...

Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is...

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

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...

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...

An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find...

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house....

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

Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport,...

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an...

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help...

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair...

Mexican movie

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a...

Venice Film Festival 1948

Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.

A group of veteran boxers find a young potential champion to train.

A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.

Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their...

Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.

Two middle-aged couples take a Murphy's Law vacation in Acapulco.

A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything...

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities...

Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the...

Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from...

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the...

A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...

In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by...

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk...

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

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...

Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in...

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life...

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...