Fernando Fernández

Gangsters and crooked gamblers try to interfere with a wrestling championship.

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

4.7/10

Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.

6.4/10

An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.

A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.

Satan tries to corrupt mortal man by gifting him with an enchanted tie-tack. First of four in a series.

5.4/10

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fisto del diablo." The others are El fistol del diablo, Juego diabólico and El ataúd infernal. All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

Entry in a four part series based on the novel "El fisto del diablo" by Manuel Payno.

Bandits rob mail from stagecoach. First in series of two.

Revolutionary battalion vs. guys in black klansman robes & hoods. Also a wrestler.

Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.

4.7/10

A bizarre Mexican film in which a Zorro confronts horror creatures. It is part of a series characterised by hybrid elements of this kind.

5.3/10

Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.

6.9/10

Witch retrieves the corpse of a hanged criminal and brings it back to life as an unstoppable killing machine.

5.6/10

Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.

Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.

Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.

6.3/10

Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...

6.4/10

Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.

4.8/10

Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...

4.9/10

Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.

6.8/10

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.

6.1/10

Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!

5.2/10

Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz.

6.7/10

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

6.1/10

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

5.2/10

Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.

6.8/10

Music teacher gets all tangled up with a nightclub singer, after seeing his students ogling her advertisements.

6/10

Hard-partying college student wants his parents to think he's a serious and respectable young man, so Uncle Felipe pays all his bills and takes the blame for his misdeeds and wildnesses.

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

6.8/10

Mambo nightclub is a front for gangster activity.

7.8/10

Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.

6.1/10

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.

6.6/10

Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.

5.4/10

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.

6.7/10

A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.

7.3/10

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.

Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...

A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.

Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.

5.7/10

Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.

Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.

Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.

7.1/10

In 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, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.

7.7/10

Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits.

6.8/10

Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.

Ranchera melodrama/romance.

5.7/10

1909, 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.

6/10

Lone Ranger style heroic adventure, number two in a four-movie series.

5.4/10