Arturo Soto Rangel

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.

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.

Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...

Priest founds an orphanage, faces conflicts with townsfolk.

Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.

Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to their very different social backgrounds.

Si volvieras a mi

Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.

A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.

A Mexican film noir revolving around a crime: the suicide of one of Diana (María Félix)'s lovers and the disposal of his body in order to avoid a scandal. Diana not only engineers the entire scheme, but drafts her two other suitors: her fiance Adolfo (Julio Villareal) and his nephew Miguel (Luis Aldas).

An orphan boy is left in the care of his godfather, a bartender who teaches him to play cards and shoot weapons.

Rivalries and romances among bullfighters.

Historical drama about the period just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.

Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.

College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.

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

Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.

When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.

La reina del trópico

Political satire about fixed elections in a small town.

A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.

Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.

Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies.

Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life.

Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.

When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.

USA-educated doctor goes home for the first time in years. Culture shock.

A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.

Frente al Pecado de Ayer

Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.

Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.

1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.

Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

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.

Masked avenger on horseback, one of a series.

Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.

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.

Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.

Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.

Hero on horseback.

Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.

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

A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?

Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.

When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there...

Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with.

Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.

Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.

Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the ladder of success, she starts feeling insecure about all the beautiful non-deformed women he's surrounded with.

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 meets a new girl.

Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.

Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to town looking for the buried treasure that sparked the whole mess.

A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."

Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.

Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.

Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.

Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.

Bride backs out of her wedding at the last possible minute; she and her fiance get caught up in a power-struggle that ends with both running for mayor.

Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.

Romantic triangle on the hacienda.

Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.

Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.

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.

Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.

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

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

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.

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.

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.

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.

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.

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.

After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.

On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.

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 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

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.

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.

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

A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.

A 1941 film.

A 1938 film.

Comedy/drama about railroad workers.

Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.

Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.

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.

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 visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.

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

Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.

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

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.

¡… Y murío por nosotros!

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.

1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...

Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.

Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.

Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.

An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.

Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.

Young peasant woman allows an army officer to woo her, as a way of drawing attention away from her father's insurgent connections... while her own affections are torn between two brothers.

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.

Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the lands belonging to local indigenous tribe and in getting that territory restored to tribal governance.

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

Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.

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

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.

El embajador

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.

A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.

A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.

Yo soy tu padre

Tuya en cuerpo y alma

Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.

Pistolas de oro

Mexican feature film

Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.

Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.

The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.

A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.

A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.

Mexican feature film

El mexicano

Mexican movie

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

Mexican movie

Love of my loves

Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.

Los millones de Chaflán

The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.

Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.

Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.

A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.

Mexican feature film

Tierra muerta

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.

A romance between a woman and a ghost.