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- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsDomingo SolerAnita BlanchAmparo MorilloIn rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel (barraca), the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of "another" working the land that once belonged to one of them.
- DirectorJulio BrachoStarsArturo de CórdovaGloria MarínJulio VillarrealA brilliant surgeon is dazed and feels he can no longer operate. Told in flashback, we find his troubles began with a woman.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsDolores Del RíoPedro ArmendárizVíctor JuncoA 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.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixPedro ArmendárizFernando FernándezDuring the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsDolores Del RíoAgustín IrustaVíctor JuncoDolores Del Rio plays a dual role as identical twins - one good and one bad.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsDavid SilvaAmanda del LlanoCarlos López Moctezuma"Champion without a crown". Quick rise and fall of a boxer filled with talent and psychological complexes.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsPedro ArmendárizMaría Elena MarquésFernando WagnerThe discovery of a perfect pearl forever changes the lives of a poor Mexican fisherman and his family.
- DirectorAntonio MompletStarsArmando CalvoGloria MarínAndrea PalmaThe story of a common man that could raise in life thanks to lies and deceits.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresStarsArturo de CórdovaPepita SerradorAna María CampoyA middle-aged man reminisces about the five women he loved.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixCarlos López MoctezumaFernando FernándezCalled by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsMaría FélixFernando SolerJulián SolerLena is a spy who manages to seduce rich men only to obtain information.
- DirectorJulio BrachoStarsFernando SolerRita MacedoNicolás RodríguezIn this love triangle set amid a revolution, a peasant woman ,abandoned by her roughhewn man, finds comfort with a local store owner, until her former lover returns as the head of an army of bandits.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsFernando SolerDavid SilvaMartha RothA strict patriarch exercises almost absolute control over his family and uses it to impose his vision of order and conservative family values. However, the budding sexuality of some of his children causes the union to unravel.
- DirectorMiguel ZacaríasStarsFernando SolerRosario GranadosMatilde PalouThe lives and growing pains of a provincial family of 12, in Mexico centered on the three daughters.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsColumba DomínguezRoberto CañedoArturo Soto RangelAurelio 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.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela IndaA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsMaría FélixVíctor JuncoCrox AlvaradoAngela "Doña Diabla" is a beautiful and rude woman who after her divorce swore to hate men. He also forbids the romance of his daughter Angelica with a ruffian named Adrian.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsArturo de CórdovaLeticia PalmaRamón GayA fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsDolores Del RíoJorge MistralJosé BavieraDeseada, a woman living in the modern city of Chichen Itza, tries to assuage her sister's dread of her betrothal to a Spaniard she doesn't really know. However, when he arrives in the city, he and Deseada fall in love before he has a chance to meet his bride-to-be.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsDolores Del RíoEsther FernándezCarlos NavarroLiterary adaptation: In the late 19th century a society lady takes pride in being a good Christian while she burns books she disapproves of, and arranges to have her daughter's lover whom she also disapproves of, executed.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsArturo de CórdovaPedro ArmendárizEstela IndaMelodrama about Dr. Alberto Robles, an idealistic city physician living in a rural community ruled by macho customs and feudalistic landowners, who falls for Soledad, a peasant woman.
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaStarsArturo de CórdovaMarga LópezRamón GayA married man hires his cousin to stand up for him, when it is discovered that he has a mistress with three children.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsLilia PradoCarmelita GonzálezEsteban MayoA newly-wed country boy receives the terrible news that his mother is dying, and takes a long and dangerous bus trip to the city to contact a notary for her last will and testament. Will he resist temptation and do the right thing?
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsDolores Del RíoPedro López LagarEduardo NoriegaMarta (Dolores del Río) es una mujer que vive obsesionada, ya que su madre y su hermano murieron de esquizofrenia. Temerosa de que la enfermedad sea congénita, sobreprotege hasta el extremo a su único hijo (Alejandro Ciangherotti Jr.). Debido a su obsesión, Marta no se da cuenta que la única afectada psicológicamente en su familia es ella.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsArturo de CórdovaLaura HidalgoJosé María Linares-RivasDuring their collective marriage anniversaries, three husbands find out their best friend has died and decide to open a letter he left to be opened after his death.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsDavid SilvaVíctor ParraSara GarcíaDesperate for improving his quality of life, a young failed door-to-door salesman ends up accepting a dubious job from a mysterious old friend.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsRicardo MontalbanAriadne WelterVíctor ParraScientist sent by pharmaceutical company to Veracruz to study barbasco roots for cortisone production gets lost in jungle, ends up in remote village called Paradise, experiences a romantic adventure.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsDan O'HerlihyJaime FernándezFelipe de AlbaThe classic story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsErnesto AlonsoMiroslavaRita MacedoThe delirious journey of a mentally disordered man, who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaStarsMarga LópezPrudencia GrifellErnesto AlonsoAn unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.
- DirectorAlfonso Corona BlakeStarsMario Humberto Jiménez PonsIgnacio García TorresRogelio 'Frijolitos' Jiménez PonsPortrait of the lives of marginalized children in Mexico City, through three juvenile criminals. One killed his stepfather to protect his mother, another blinded his guardian to ward off his abuses, and a third had to steal in order to eat.
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaStarsLilia PradoLeonor LlausásVíctor Manuel MendozaWhen his successful brother falls ill, a wastrel must step up to take over the family business. This leads to an adulterous, tragic relationship with his brother's wife.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsMaría FélixPedro ArmendárizAndrés SolerA dramatic story which tells the love between a beautiful woman named Gabriela and a revolutionary man. All framed by violent and exciting battles.
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsMaría FélixPedro InfanteAndrés SolerA white woman enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian. The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be insurmountable, resulting in tragedy.
- DirectorRogelio A. GonzálezStarsGloria LozanoElsa CárdenasMarilú ElízagaA pregnant and very poor woman has no place to give birth, and turns to a society lady for help.
- DirectorTulio DemicheliStarsArturo de CórdovaMarga LópezIgnacio López TarsoIdolizing a classical violinist, a girl sends him a Happy New Year note (the day they met) regularly with flowers but years after he abandons her and her baby after a night of bliss, he flirts with her anew as if she is a different person.
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsAlfonso ArauOfelia MedinaChrista Linder
- DirectorSalomón LaiterStarsJacqueline AndereJorge LukeMilton RodríguezDue to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsClaudio BrookRita MacedoArturo BeristáinThe story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsManolo FábregasLucha VillaHéctor SuárezA 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.
- DirectorPaul LeducStarsClaudio ObregónEduardo López RojasErnesto Gómez CruzA dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaAlberto BojórquezJorge FonsStarsFabiola FalcónArmando SilvestreDavid SilvaThe movie consists of three separate segments, each dealing with faith, hope, and charity.
- DirectorAlfredo JoskowiczStarsHéctor BonillaSergio JiménezOfelia MedinaTwo young people leave city life for the simplicity of life in the province. Unfortunately, the beach they are going to live next to is being polluted by a local factory.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMercedes CarreñoGregorio CasalArmando SilvestreMartin lives in a mountain hut with his wife, La Choca, and his son, little Martin, and Flor, Choca's sister. They live through hardship to make ends meet, and Martin does some smuggling. During his abscence, three men arrive, accuse him of having betrayed them, and set a trap to capture him. When he arrives, all hell breaks loose, and out of the carnage only La Choca survives.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsDavid ReynosoFabiola FalcónLucha VillaWhen the bottle she uses to help women give birth to their children breaks, midwife Mama Santos announces that something terrible will happen in a small town in the Mexican countryside. Soon, increasing tension and acts of violence in the community leads to devastating results.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsGian Maria VolontèDiana BrachoClaudio ObregónIt is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsEnrique LuceroSalvador SánchezErnesto Gómez CruzA group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to lynch them.
- DirectorMarcela Fernández ViolanteStarsPatricia AspíllagaJorge RussekJuan FerraraEl movimiento cristero, durante la Guerra Cristera en 1926 en Mexico.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Martha NavarroEmma RoldánWhen a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.
- DirectorAlberto IsaacStarsHéctor OrtegaBruno ReyArturo Beristáin
- DirectorGonzalo Martínez OrtegaStarsBruno ReyNarciso BusquetsPedro Armendáriz Jr.In 1886 the residents of a town in Chihuahua reject the abuses of the authorities and the army.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRoberto CoboFernando SolerLucha VillaFamily honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón".
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsJosé AlonsoMaría RojoAna Ofelia MurguíaA woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend (Rojo). This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. One day, the mother gets sick and falls into a coma. Her son arrives but she is unconscious. He has a brief but passionate affair with her mother's friend and then disappears, as quickly as he came back from the sea.
- DirectorJulián PastorStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Hugo StiglitzCristina MorenoA wealthy marriage and friends with luxury living style and the contrast on the life of their pregnant maid trying to have an abortion.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Narciso BusquetsErnesto Gómez CruzA former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraKaty JuradoSalvador SánchezIt tells the story of a dictatorship. Its protagonist is the sum and essence of several of the rulers who have exercised absolute power in Latin American countries.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsAlejandro ParodiJosé Carlos RuizRebeca SilvaA terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
- DirectorJulián PastorStarsJorge RiveroClaudia IslasJorge LukeLawyer has his life chattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. Through intense investigation he is finding out that people have been lying to him. Raul (Jorge Rivero) was told she was raped before she was murdered, but that was a lie. She was living a double life. But, who murdered her? He has to get to the bottom of this.
- DirectorAlfredo GurrolaFrancisco GuerreroStarsSasha MontenegroAlejandro ParodiVíctor AlcocerMiguel is a corrupt cop. After a drug bust word goes around someone in Miguel squad kept the seized drugs. Miguel must take the heat and gets sent to jail where he gets severely beaten up.
- DirectorJosé EstradaStarsJulissaClaudia IslasGregorio CasalOne weekend in Mexico City, the inhabitants of an old apartment building celebrate two different ceremonies: a debutante party (Quinceanera) and a velatory. Neighbors get mixed between the two pachangas while love, sex, comedy, and tragedy are combined into a funny and explosive cocktail.
- DirectorAlfredo GurrolaStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.JulissaErnesto Gómez CruzSeveral young women are murdered in a small community, and a detective moves in to solve the crimes.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsHumberto ZuritaMaría RojoJosé Carlos RuizPedro (Humberto Zurita) commands an guerrilla group. In a failed attack on a senior government official, the rebels abduct Pablo (Manuel Ojeda), who is Pedro's former party colleague. The guerrillas are besieged in a safe house and have to deliberate on the fate of Pablo.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsIsela VegaMario AlmadaSergio JiménezMatea is an orphan who assists the priest, Father Feliciano, in his parish. The village doctor tries to seduce her, but fails and proceeds to defame her into believing that Matea maintains relations with the priest.
- DirectorPaul LeducStarsOfelia MedinaJuan José GurrolaMax KerlowThe most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.
- DirectorGerardo PardoStarsLucy ReinaGerardo de la PeñaTenoch RamosTeen angst in Mexico City is made all the worse by a young provincial woman's infatuation for a ghost, in this effective drama about disturbed youth. Aida arrives in Mexico City and is immediately introduced into the world of drugs and sex by the friends she meets. Before long, she is having visions of the ghostly "El Humo" ("Smoke") and after she meets him at a party, they both are struck by Cupid's arrow. After some back-and-forth stepping around the nature of their relationship, El Humo disappears for five days, and Aida is distraught -- she locks herself up in her dark room, smokes some weed, takes a few hallucinogenic mushrooms, and then has a vision that clears up the mystery surrounding El Humo.
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsAna Patricia RojoElsa María GutiérrezLeonor LlausásA 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaDelia CasanovaMarta AuraLuz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as Purgatory: it's only one step to reach Heaven.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsErnesto Gómez CruzBlanca GuerraAlejandro ParodiPoor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
- DirectorAlberto CortésStarsJuan Carlos ColomboEmilio CortésAlonso EchánoveMaria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a prostitute. She frequents bars and saloons, commits some robberies, but neither sex, nor the tequila, can replace love.
- DirectorDiego López RiveraStarsErnesto Gómez CruzFernando BalzarettiClaudia RamírezThe story of two bored and restless rich kids and their plunge into tragedy.
- DirectorAlberto IsaacStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Elizabeth AguilarIsabel AndradeIn 1940s Mexico City, schoolboy Carlos falls in love with his best friend's mother, Mariana. Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the typical Mexican families of the time because although they aren't rich, they have many expensive American things. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsGonzalo VegaErnesto Gómez CruzMaría RojoCandelario is a wanderer who arrives to Don Lázaro's hacienda. He soon proves to be a good worker full of ideas and gives new life to the decadent hacienda. He also attract the attention of Don Lázaro's wife Chabela.
- DirectorSergio OlhovichStarsDmitriy KharatyanLeonid KuravlyovBoris TokarevThe biography of a Russian man, in real life the grandfather of the director Sergio Olhovich, who comes to Mexico running away from the Russian Revolution.
- DirectorBusi CortésStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Dolores BeristáinDiana BrachoAn elder woman (Romelia), her daughter and her grandchildren take a few days on holidays to visit a small town outside the city. The town makes Romelia melancholy and her daughter wants to find out about the mystery of her unknown father.
- DirectorJuan Fernando Pérez GavilánStarsAlberto PedretJosé Carlos RuizMartha RothAn international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.
- DirectorDiego López RiveraStarsJosé Carlos RuizGustavo AguilarTomás AlcázarThe closeness of his death and a final impulse to paint one more painting, lead the Mexican painter Francisco Goitia to remember his life.
- DirectorAlfonso Rosas Priego hijoStarsSebastian LigardeMario AlmadaRoxana ChávezMake sure you lock the doors and leave the lights on as you follow a psychopath as he plans and executes his crimes, all the while eluding the police. It's an edge-of-your-seat thriller loaded with action and bone-chilling direction by the master: Alfonso Rosas Priego.
- DirectorAlejandro PelayoStarsBlanca GuerraEnrique RochaAlejandro ParodiThe story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
- DirectorJorge FonsStarsHéctor BonillaMaría RojoJorge FegánA Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
- DirectorJuan Antonio de la RivaStarsAlonso EchánoveGabriela RoelIgnacio GuadalupeIn San Miguel de Cruces, a timber town in northern Mexico, friends Jose Luis and Juan Jose finish their primary education at the local school. During the last holidays together, we see life in the town: their parents' work, the old cinema and the parties, the teenagers' love...
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsMarco LeonardiLumi CavazosRegina TornéWhen tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsMaría RojoCarmen SalinasTito VasconcelosJulia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old "Salon Colonia". They've danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia's life forever.
- DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsEduardo López RojasMalena DoriaArcelia RamírezOld bachelor Benjamin (Lopez Rojas) still lives with his sister Micaela (Doria) in the boredom of a small town. His only entertainment is getting together with a bunch of old men and spare time playing like children. Benjamin falls inlove with beautiful and young Natividad (Ramirez). First, he writes love letters for her. Then, when this strategy fails, Benjamin and the old men plan to abduct her and wait for her falling inlove.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsFederico LuppiRon PerlmanClaudio BrookA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
- DirectorDana RotbergStarsEvangelina SosaLilia AragónRoberto SosaIn a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.
- DirectorRubén GámezStarsManuel AguilarPatricia AguirreYirah Aparicio"For her self-denial and courage, this film is dedicated to the Mexican woman." A tribute to the undeniable combative and strong spirit of the women exploited labor, who are subjected to the double duty as mothers and wives.