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7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959
8.7Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Macario
1960
7.5A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
The Magician
1949
8.2Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
We the Poor
1948
6.9A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
The Other
1946
7.4The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
El bolero de Raquel
1957
Film credits
1960s · 8 titles
8.7Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Macario
1960
7.8Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
El analfabeto
1961
6.2A man hated by his father and in love with a beautiful woman whose brothers do not approve of the relationship and persecute him.
¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes!
1965
5.8A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
Sol en llamas
1962
6.3A property owner dies from shock after his opponent tricks him into thinking his land was legally seized.
Pa' qué me sirve la vida
1961
7.1Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
Autumn Days
1963
6.2A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
La hermana blanca
1960
5.4Elías, a banker and the secret leader of a gang, tries to persuade Pedro—the father of young Laura and little Chava—to sell him his ranch. Five friends—the shopkeeper Trini, the blacksmith Quique, the horseman Cuco, the barber Javier, and the doctor Demetrio—serenade Laura. After her father is murdered, the five friends, encouraged by the judge, who reveals the banker’s guilt to them, disguise themselves as The Five Hawks and fight against the gang.
Los cinco halcones
1962
1950s · 20 titles
7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959
7.4The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
El bolero de Raquel
1957
8.5Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
The Atomic Fireman
1952
7.4Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Tailored gentleman
1954
5.6Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
Locura pasional
1956
6.7A bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story.
El sol sale para todos
1950
3.4A man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will.
Ella, Lucifer y yo
1953
5.8Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
Reto a la vida
1954
6.8Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.
La visita que no tocó el timbre
1954
4.7Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
The Three Perfect Wives
1953
6.0A 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?
In the Palm of Your Hand
1951
5.8Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
La noche es nuestra
1952
5.7Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.
Historia de un amor
1956
6.0Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.
Stolen Tears
1954
6.0Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.
Al diablo las mujeres
1955
6.0A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
La mujer X
1955
5.0Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
Four Nights With You
1952
5.8Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
Pretty sky!
1957
4.3Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
Ella y yo
1951
6.0In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Remember to Live
1953
1940s · 18 titles
7.5A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
The Magician
1949
8.2Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
We the Poor
1948
6.9A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
The Other
1946
5.8A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to claim their souls in exchange.
El diablo no es tan diablo
1949
6.2After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
1943
5.7A father imposes conditions on his son in order to inherit his fortune, unaware of what true love is capable of. The son accepts his father's terms and faces a series of challenges that ultimately lead him to become the heir.
Soltera y con gemelos
1945
6.6Ruled 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.
Vuelven los García
1947
6.8Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.
La reina de la opereta
1946
8.2Ruled 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 Three Garcías
1947
6.9Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Dicen que soy mujeriego
1949
6.0Three sisters discover that the men in their lives are philandering trash and band together to build new lives for themselves instead of continuing to enable their unworthy partners.
Nuestros maridos
1946
6.1Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him.
Canaima
1945
5.7Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
La pícara Susana
1945
6.3Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
The Seminarian
1949
5.8A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing.
Encadenada (El yugo)
1947
6.5Gumaro 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 order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Perez Family
1949
6.7Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.
Adiós juventud
1943
5.5A woman who has been raped (Alicia Neira) sets out to rebuild her life with another man (Luis Aguilar), but the bandit who assaulted her (Enrique Zambrano) stands in her way.
Rondalla
1949
