Luis Alcoriza

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

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

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.

It follows a group of mountaineers who take shelter from a fierce blizzard in the isolated cabin of a man named Leonardo. When he refuses to open the door, a local guide reveals to them the tragic story of love, sacrifice, and heartbreak that led him to cut himself off from the world.

Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".

Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.

Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings.

A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

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

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.

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

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.

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.

Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.

Mario is a playboy who is married to Lucía, a millionaire who has fallen on hard times, and he also maintains an adulterous relationship with one of her friends, the temperamental and libertine millionaire Lena Anderson.

Mario is a playboy who is married to Lucía, a millionaire who has fallen on hard times, and he also maintains an adulterous relationship with one of her friends, the temperamental and libertine millionaire Lena Anderson.

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

The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

A circus fakir performs a crucifixion act to earn enough money to secure a home for his mother. As the spectacle intensifies, the boundary between devotion, showmanship, and danger begins to blur.

A circus fakir performs a crucifixion act to earn enough money to secure a home for his mother. As the spectacle intensifies, the boundary between devotion, showmanship, and danger begins to blur.

A devoted woman sets out on a long pilgrimage, pleading for a miracle to save her husband. Along the road, her faith is tested by hardship, temptation, and the people she meets.

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

An elderly wealthy woman’s public charity in a forgotten town sparks tension and rivalry among neighbors. A working-class wife is pushed into a harsh maze of institutions as the conflict spills into family life.

In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.

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 generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.