Manuel Arvide

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.

After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.

A property owner dies from shock after his opponent tricks him into thinking his land was legally seized.

A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.

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Felipe the charro returns and discovers that Rosa is going to marry Martín, a stranger from out of town, and feels betrayed. It is a deception, but love, jealousy, and revenge dominate.

Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

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

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

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 body and soul to serving those who need it most.

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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 involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.

Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.

A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.

Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.

A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.

In rural Mexico, a psychic finds herself caught between warring families while competing with her closest friend for the same man's affections.

Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.

Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.

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For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.

Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd.

Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.

Mexican western film about Joaquin Murrieta, the Robin Hood of the West.

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?

An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire.

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

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

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.

Doctor Alejandro Mangino falls in love with Lucía just before he goes on a round-the-world trip. Pining for her all the while, he returns to find that she’s married his best friend.

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.

Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another man.

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

Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men.

A 1942 film.

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.

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.

After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.

Circus clown and society matron compete for custody of their daughter.

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.

The plot revolves around Pancho Domínguez, alias “El Charro del Arrabal” (José Pulido), a former cattle rustler turned gangster who controls an extortion racket in the city. The story intensifies when he becomes involved in a turbulent romance with the rumbera Rosa (Rosa Carmina) and clashes with political and criminal rivals.

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

An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.

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

Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.

When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street. They sell lottery and newspapers. When older, they became artists.

The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.

La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.