Magdaleno Barba

Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...

In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.

Story about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive.

A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.

A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.

Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.

A physician launches his own investigation into a gang of opium traffickers, while a mother who lost her son to the drug vows revenge against those who led him into that world.

A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.

A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.

Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation.