Agustín Isunza

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!

A dead man's brother tracks his murderer down, years later, and intercedes to prevent him from taking over a young woman's farm.

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

Cowboy-policeman-hero interferes with the bad guy's plans and prevents his engaging in monkeyshines. Part of the series "Mauricio Rosales, el rayo justiciero."

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.

Wrestling superhero Mil Máscaras battles bad guys.

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.

Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as a tale of romantic entanglements. Agustin Isunza is a funny former farm worker, whose employers, young and attractive blond Joan Page and Clifford Carr, dazzle the sibling pair starring Luis Aguilar and Amanda del Llano. Miguel Inclan, a rich potter from the area, has put his eye on them to marry their children, Katy Jurado and Raul Guerrero.

Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.

The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death.

Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.

New sheriff cleans up the town. First (?) in "Mauricio Rosales" series.

Cowgirl gets her man. After all the entanglements run their course.

Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.

Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is confronted by the unpleasant surprise that her dad has been assassinated by the malicious municiple government, which has the whole town in a clutch of terror. "An excellent sharp-shooter is worth more here, than a good lawyer..." This phrase inspires lawyer Leonardo Torres to convert himself into a guardian of justice, who will defend the right of the weak against tyranny. Nobody would ever guess that the "timid" lawyer is in reality none other than the dreadful "Zorro of Jalisco."

A new sheriff rids his town of bandits and puts everything in order.

Ensemble-comedy set in a lower-middle-class apartment complex.

Lone Ranger style heroic adventure, number two in a four-movie series.

Ranchera comedy.

Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.

Romantic comedy/drama.

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.

Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits.

Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.

Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.

Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.

Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle la patrona's cattle and set fire to her stables.

Two small-town hustlers are mistaken for government officials.

Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd planned.

There are two sisters who will soon receive a large inheritance and several men want to marry them to participate in that heritage.

Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.

Two bozos take varied assignments from an employment agency.

Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.

Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.

Rom-com in charro hats.

Law officer goes undercover as member of gang of murderous highwaymen.

Italian crime drama

Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.

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

The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.

A landowner dies of disgust when his rival makes him believe that he has legally taken away his property.

Mexican western 1961

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

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

Young soldier goes home to Cowboyville to find the man who killed his father.

A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.

Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.

Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.

Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...

Federal agent Mauricio Rosales goes undercover as itinerant cowpoke to clean up corruption in a remote Northern town. Series western.

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

Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.

Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.

Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.

Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.

Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera singer and the other brother's a waterboy at the stadium.

Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats.

Itinerant cowboy learns that his horse can talk. Horse ends up giving him singing-lessons... and...

Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.

Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Federal agent on horseback comes to town to catch some crooks. Series western: Mauricio Rosales El Justiciero number 8.

When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.

Western sheriff's black-sheep son becomes responsible for keeping order in town while his father is recovering from a gunshot.

Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.

Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.

One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.

Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.

José Guadalupe García was born in the United States, but seems very Mexican. Winning his American girlfriend creates many comic situations, but he also faces discrimination and racism.

Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.

Monster film and mad doctor spoof.

Satan tries to corrupt mortal man by gifting him with an enchanted tie-tack. First of four in a series.

A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.

A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.

Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.

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.

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.

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

Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Hilario Jiménez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.

Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.

In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.

An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.

Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.

A crew of happy ne'er do wells comes to town to gamble and party during the town fair... but then their leader gets serious about a local girl and about finding the rustlers who are stealing all of her daddy's horses.

La sombra de Chucho el Roto

Bad Comanches persuade good Apaches to go on the warpath.

A 1941 film.

Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. For awhile. And then...

Third in a series; flashbacks remind us of the beef El Charro had with Carlos from his home town. While they move toward a final showdown, Carlos and his new evil buddy Rodolfo kill a couple more people just for kicks.

Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.

Bandit crew with mysterious masked leader is doing lots of crimes. Mauricio Rosales and his sidekick ride into town all incognito and stuff to set things right.

Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.

When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies.

Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.

Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...

A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.

The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...

Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.

Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.

Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.

Cowboy-justice guy breaks up a criminal gang who are terrorizing a small town with the appearance of vampire activity.

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.

Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.

Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse.

A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.

Respectable guy uses a pseudonym when he wants to cut loose in a neighboring town. A friend of his picks up the pseudonym habit, and they take turns pretending to be the same person, until their cover stories get too snarled to continue.

Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway.

Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, there are can-can girls.

Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down their employer's daughter and baby-mama from thirty years earlier.

A young man is executed for a murder he didn't commit. His brother shows up to clear his name and see that proper justice is done.

Five artsy young women in a group house have landlord troubles.

My Dear Captain

Four bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's up to western-series hero El Hijo Del Charro Negro! to make things right.

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Two young charros have been playing the field, and each one has three potential fiancees lined up... Now that it's time to get serious and move toward marriage, the women start politicking among themselves to discredit each other.

Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las Calaveras Del Terror and Vuelven Las Calaveras Del Terror. Good guys vs bad guys for possession of a map showing the location of a lost mine.

Bad hats try to manipulate townsfolk and neighboring Apache tribal settlement into a range war.

Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.

Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college to set things aright... or does he have other plans?

Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.

Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.

Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance.

Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.

A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.

Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.

El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.

Mexican feature film

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman

Mexican feature film

Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.

A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.

La engañadora

Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls.

Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.

A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.

An exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

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

Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974

A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.