El rediezcubrimiento de México
Un ángel de mal genio
Los destrampados
Collection of comedy sketches and blackout gags edited into feature-length movie. Laugh-In style.
A young man with telekinetic powers comes to stay in an old house inhabited by two sisters and there he has to face supernatural phenomena that reach their culmination when he is saved from dying by an old man murdered some time ago.
Short-attention-span sketch comedy and black-out gags, assembled into a movie. Structured like TV show "Laugh-In". First of three in series.
La Madrecita
The story of Father William Wasson, who founded and operated a home for abandoned and orphaned children in Mexico.
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Pantaleón and the visitors is a peruvian film made in 1975 and based on the book of the same name by Mario Vargas Llosa. Directed by the novelist himself along with José María Gutiérrez Santos, it was released in Puerto Rico. Among its protagonists, José Sacristán, the Mexican Katy Jurado and Rosa Carmina and the Peruvian Camucha Negrete.
Matar por matar
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
Doddering old man makes a play for a married woman. Her husband gets practical joke-y in revenge.
Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.
A young woman is fired by her lover from her job in a bookstore and meets a trafficker she falls in love with. She becomes a heroin and prostitutes to buy the drug. The trafficker is arrested and she surrenders to the supplier in exchange for drugs. He pretends to care for a cemetery and demands money from him. She desperately kills him. When the trafficker leaves, he decides to rebuild his life and goes as a doctor to the mountains with the young woman. She also wants to quit the drug and succeeds with her help, but when boarding a vehicle they are killed by four gunmen. Source: http://www.imcine.gob.mx/cine-mexicano/pelicula2425
While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.
Sketch comedy and blackout gags -- format like Laugh-In. Number two in a series.
Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.
An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.
Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.
Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.
Masked hero fights crime on horseback. #3 in the series "El Latigo Negro."
Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
X has to postpone his marriage for 3 months in order to collect a huge inheritance... so he hires Y to keep his fiancee and her father busy during the hiatus.
Two sworn enemies must put aside their differences and join forces to catch a gang of thieves led by a woman called "The Yara". They must fight to save their village from the bandits and do everything necessary to prevent The Yara from controlling their destinies.
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Blowhard's mouth runs away with him and he's trapped into having to prove that he knows Maria Antonieta Pons, the big movie star and stuff.
Two sisters. They ride horses, they wear black dominos, they carry bullwhips. Their dad was... Third of three movies in unofficial series; the first two didn't explicitly reference Zorro.
Two wandering cowboys are falsely accused of murder.
Remake of an archetypal 1940s melodrama about parents sacrificing their own well-being for the convenience of ungrateful adult children.
Siempre hay una primera vez
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child.
Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved.
The town's leading families decide to step down and let average citizens take responsibility for city government, from Mayor on down.
Rocky Carambola
A sporty new car is gifted to two young men who work at an auto factory, and they have to time-share it between them.
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.
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 elderly person.
Two young sweethearts get tangled up with a bad guy and a stolen necklace.
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
Zorro-inspired sister act, black dominos and bullwhips. Second of three in unofficial series.
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 of a middle-class family.
An anxious father wants to trap the Sanchez brothers into marrying his two daughters.
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.
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.
The reading of a will turns into a scavenger hunt among the heirs.
A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.
Ramón y Socorro, a 50-year-old couple, owners of a tavern, embarks on a long trip to Mexico to attend the wedding of their son, Carlos, with Gloria, the daughter of an important Mexican businessman. Upon arriving in Mexico, Ramón discovers that in this country there is a divorce. Fed up with his wife, he decides to divorce without taking into account that he will soon pay the consequences of this act.
La pandilla se divierte
Mexican feature film
A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.
One-armed man tracks the people who killed his father.
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Romanticized, glamored-up neorealism, life in a squatter's-rights shantytown.
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.
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.
In the sixteenth Captain Morgan pirate ship is sunk by the Spanish fleet. He and four companions make it to an island, but the beaches are occupied by the Spanish. The child Erick, son of John Goldark, King of the Pirates, who died trying to save his nephews Lady Harold and the Spanish prisoners, helping them into the jungle. Grateful Morgan and his friends save the captives. When it seems that children are lost flying the Spanish magazine. Then fight with cannibals and are again caught by the Spanish, but are saved by another pirate ship.
La Coquito is a Cuban cuplés, coveted by men for her beauty and sensuality. After great hardship in Cuba, she accepts the proposal of a Spanish businessman to work in Madrid. There she meets various men who will compete for her love.
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
Working in a department store exposes young ladies to corrupting influences.
A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him.
Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.
Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure. The search leads to an all out war between the town bosses, a family of crooked ranchers and other unsavory characters. But when Shannon (Nick Adams) enters the picture, they may have met their match...
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Romantic conflicts set against a Mexican Revolution backdrop.
Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
Born to Love
Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
El vals sin fin
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.
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it.
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1998.
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
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.
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.