José Baviera

Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.

Handicapped day-laborer crushes out on a ranchera singer, then has a chance to save her from ruffians. After that, he becomes a ward/employee of a Catholic orphanage and trains for lucha libre competition with an aging wrestler who mentors him.

6.6/10

Controlling father stifles adult son's career plans, interferes with his love life...

A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.

6.4/10

She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...

6.1/10

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

6.1/10

"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).

7.5/10

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.

5.7/10

Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera.

7.1/10

Mexican feature film

Masked Avenger (Lone Ranger style) versus smugglers in a small fishing town.

6/10

Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman also named Marie, a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.

6.4/10

Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.

5/10

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.

8.1/10
9.3%

Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.

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

A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man who knows how to destroy him with a peculiar piece of music.

5.6/10

Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.

Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.

By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined

6.8/10

Masked rider leads a posse to defend their town from crimes related to appearances of a hanged man come back from the grave.

3.7/10

Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.

5/10

Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.

Woman has plastic surgery and reevaluates her relationships with husband and lover while pretending to be a different person.

Zorro imitation, first in a series.

6.4/10

Young woman's in love with a poor art student, but her father forces her into a marriage with someone from her own economic stratum. Bad move.

7.1/10

Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.

6.5/10

Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.

6.6/10

Jailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border.

6.9/10

Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.

6.3/10

Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines. His presence in the community will initiate a lot of changes. Ada Montalvo is a beautiful young woman with a great heart, whose strong personality wakes up the admiration of a good looking millionaire Ramón. She is the woman he has always dreamed of. However, for Ada he is nothing more than an intruder who has arrived to ruin the calm life of Taxco with his money, and she does not hide the contempt she feels towards him, even though the circumstances force her to marry him...

6.1/10

Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.

7.7/10

Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.

A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.

6.8/10

Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.

7.1/10

Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.

5.9/10

Sad lonely spinster makes friends with a little boy in the park, ends up kidnapping him when she learns about how unloved and neglected he is at home. And then...

6.1/10

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.

6.1/10

Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?

7.7/10

Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

6.4/10

In the lobby of the hospital of the City of Mexico, Dr. Alberto Robles receives a letter from his friend Juan the priest of Santa Cruz. In the text, the priest tells him that they both lived before his departure, and the reason why Alberto decided to leave the town where he struggled against gullibility and ignorance of the people towards their science and against David, chieftain who abused his power by invading land, such as a farmer Roque Suazo, who leaves the town after the death of his mother for being staffed by a healer instead of a doctor. Later, Roque returns to fight their land and falls in love with Soledad, a peasant who is in love with Alberto. Soledad pregnant from rape and dies during childbirth, so Alberto decides to go to the city.

7.2/10

In Havana, turn of the century, Maria Elena is seduced by a man who leaves her pregnant and abandoned. The girl's parents do not want their name tainted with dishonor see your daughter, so send it to a remote ranch. There, with the black nanny care Mama Dolores, born Alberto, whom the grandfather, Rafael, want you dead. Mother Dolores takes the small and educated with the help of a suitor of Maria Elena, when she enters a convent to wash their sin. Years pass, and Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.

7/10

The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

6.9/10

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

7.3/10

A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.

Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend.

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.

6.7/10

Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.

6.2/10

Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

6.1/10

Mother and daughter in love with the same man.

6.8/10

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

7.2/10

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.

7.3/10

Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!

Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.

6.7/10

Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.

Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.

5/10

Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.

7/10

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

7.1/10

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

6.5/10

Ambitious hacendado tries to take over a neighboring estate and the young woman that goes with the property.

6.8/10

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

5.7/10

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

7.3/10

Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.

7/10

A 1949 Mexican comedy drama film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García and Manolo Fábregas.

7.6/10

After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.

Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...

7/10

After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?

7.1/10

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.

6.3/10

Concentration Camp survivor tries to start over with a new identity.

6.5/10

Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.

5.9/10

Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?

6.7/10

Struggling musician takes sympathy on a homeless woman and they build a life together.

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

5.9/10

Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.

The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.

7.2/10

Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

7.4/10

Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.

6.7/10

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.

7.3/10

After the ending of the War Of Independence, a Mexican officer goes roguish to get personal revenge on an enemy combatant who killed his father and oppressed his townfolk.

5/10

This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.

6.4/10

A European doctor, in self-imposed exile in some place like Borneo, obsesses crazily over a ruling-class white woman.

7.3/10

Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.

4.5/10

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.

6.9/10

Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.

6.1/10

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.

6.5/10

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

5.6/10

A war drama/propaganda short film.

Before the divorce of his parents, a child is in no man's land, waiting for someone to love her.

5.9/10

Luis Candelas, the mythical bandit, just and generous, comes to the aid of a nobleman who saved his life. Adventure film directed by José Buchs.

7.2/10