José Baviera

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

Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.

Mexican feature film

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister...

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.

Silvia's father wants to marry her off to Rafael who, out of jealousy, wants to finish off Juan. Silvia dresses up as Juan to save his skin.

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former...

Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form...

In Havana, turn of the century, Maria Elena is seduced by a man who leaves her pregnant and abandoned. The girl's parents do not want their name...

A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup,...

Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines....

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...

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los...

A beautiful woman will stop at nothing in her quest for money and power. Not even murder.

Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love,...

After being caught embezzling from his clinic to impress his high society lover and support his gambling habit, a doctor flees to a remote Indian...

Masked Avenger (Lone Ranger style) versus smugglers in a small fishing town.

In order to save her marriage, the famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the stage.

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

After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?

Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?

A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.

Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.

Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.

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

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.

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

For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a...

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

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

She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...

Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...

Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.

Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.

Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.

Zorro imitation, first in a series.

Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.

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.

Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera.

Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.

A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in...

Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.

Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on...

Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.

A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.

Woman has plastic surgery and reevaluates her relationships with husband and lover while pretending to be a different person.

Mexican feature film

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.

A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man...

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have...

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.

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

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

Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes...

Handicapped day-laborer crushes out on a ranchera singer, then has a chance to save her from ruffians. After that, he becomes a ward/employee of a...

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself...

Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.

"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over...

An IRA operative escapes to the Americas and teams up with a circus singer to create a popular vaudeville act. When the singer falls for a rebel,...

Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the...

Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.

Luis Candelas, the mythical bandit, just and generous, comes to the aid of a nobleman who saved his life. Adventure film directed by José...

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a...

This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.

Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.

Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.

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

Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.

Jailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border.

After the ending of the War Of Independence, a Mexican officer goes roguish to get personal revenge on an enemy combatant who killed his father and...

A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.

Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In...

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

Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death!...

A melodrama telling the story of Ricardo, a young bourgeois who flees from justice for a crime of passion. It was made during the Spanish Civil War.

Masked rider leads a posse to defend their town from crimes related to appearances of a hanged man come back from the grave.

Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs...

Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend.

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...

Controlling father stifles adult son's career plans, interferes with his love life...

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...

Struggling musician takes sympathy on a homeless woman and they build a life together.

Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young...

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a...

Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.

After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.

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

Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd...

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle....

By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined

Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of...

Mexican feature film

Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to...

The film tells the intense countdown of a man sentenced to death.

Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio....

A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.

The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.

Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.