Manuel Alvarado

Videohome lucha libre flick.

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.

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A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own.

This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.

Inocencio 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.

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

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.

Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.

A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.

The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.

Wrestling melodrama: crooked gamblers, boy/girl stuff and a priest who needs money to run his orphanage.

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

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara.

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.

Juan from Altamira, Tamaulipas, arrives at the train station in the capital and is assaulted by Gus. As he finds only ten dollars in his wallet, he believes that Juan brings more money and offers him accommodation in his room to pay the rent. Juan is dedicated to singing and Gus makes his representative. Juan is successful singing together with Susana on stage and radio Azteca, but she does not correspond to his love. As she wants to succeed alone, she goes to Guadalajara but without success. Juan helps her and when she gets a heart illness, she agrees to marry him.

A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.

A poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and dealing. Sure enough, the impostor is trapped in a series of circumstances beyond his control that lead him right to the altar. Once he is wed -- or rather, once the rich businessman is unknowingly wed by proxy, the tycoon returns from his trip with the subsequent surprises in store for all concerned.

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