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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
6.0A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948
6.8Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
2013
6.7A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Rebellion of the Hanged
1954
6.7Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
Marejada
1952
6.7Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
El pecado de ser pobre
1950
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1950s · 29 titles
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
6.7A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Rebellion of the Hanged
1954
6.7Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
Marejada
1952
6.7Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
El pecado de ser pobre
1950
8.0Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.
School for Tramps
1955
5.5In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.
Streetwalker
1951
6.0Out-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.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
1951
5.7Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.
Siempre tuya
1952
5.4Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Arrabalera
1951
8.2This 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.
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
1951
6.0The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
Una cita de amor
1958
6.5Alberto 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.
Soledad's Shawl
1952
6.4A man long thought dead returns to his fishing village home to find the love he left married to the village’s top power broker, a man who control’s the fish production with an iron fist.
The Sea and You
1952
6.6During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.
La extraña pasajera
1953
6.0This is a film by Alberto Gout that deals with the story of a marriage in crisis. It all starts when Leonardo surprises his wife Susana with her lover and threatens him with death for stealing her.
No niego mi pasado
1952
6.9In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
El derecho de nacer
1952
7.0A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Victims of Sin
1951
6.2Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
Los tres alegres compadres
1952
5.7Noirish drama about a drug trafficker and his girlfriends.
Love, how bad you are!
1953
5.8Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
El misterio del carro express
1953
6.2Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
La bienamada
1951
5.7Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
Una gallega en La Habana
1955
6.8Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.
Espaldas mojadas
1955
7.5Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
The Troublemaker
1951
4.9In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
The Abduction
1954
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
6.2Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Two Faces Have the Destiny
1952
6.0Aspiring opera singer Luis Landa returns to his hometown to avenge the murder of his brother.
El tigre enmascarado
1951
6.6Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Rosauro Castro
1950
1940s · 8 titles
6.0A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948
7.8In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Enamorada
1946
6.6Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Salon Mexico
1949
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
The Unloved Woman
1949
6.8Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
The Kneeling Goddess
1947
4.81909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.
Passion Island
1942
6.2Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
Hidden River
1948
7.2Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
Pueblerina
1949
