Alfredo Varela

Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is...

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

Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando...

Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he...

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the...

The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.

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

Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not...

Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.

Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.

Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.

Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.

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

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

Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.

Headmistress of a girl's school and one of her pupils get into romantic-comedy trouble trying to keep their lies straight.

Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.

Romantic comedy: housemaid and her employer's oldest son.

Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.

Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s

Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions.

Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman

Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Boy/girl stuff at a health spa that's famous for aphrodisiac waters.

Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.

Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.

Rom-com in charro hats.

Rom-com set during Mexican Revolution.

Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy...

Comical misadventures of a film crew trying to get their damn musical filmed.

When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a...

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...

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

Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.

Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.

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...

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the...

A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes...

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

Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling.

Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.

Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.

Every single student at Uni flips over the young woman that lives in the building across the street from the Commons. She's a professor's daughter......

A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both...

Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother...

Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be...

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...

Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet...

Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".

Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with.

Frenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients.

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for...

After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and...

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his...

Venice Film Festival 1948

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

Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.

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

A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.

Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.

Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.

Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.

Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young lady from another First Family and gets rampy with...

Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him.

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

Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.

The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime....

A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.

Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.

Five cowboy avengers avenging. Cowboyishly.

Cowboy justice, Five-avenger team up. #2 in series of two.

Beautiful women argue with various men about those things about love.

Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".

Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering...

Jewel-thief and his girlfriend try to go straight.

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.

Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando...

Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando...

Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.

Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.

Gritty-western (B&W/1962 style) about bounty hunters.

Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.

Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how...

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.

The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and...

The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and...

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be...

Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the...

A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the...

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the...

Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.

Three-episode sex farce.

A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.

The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime....

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the...

Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped believing in God since her jealous husband was...

To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in...