Lilia Prado
After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try to keep Lalo's daughters away from perverted boys.
Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.
Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over.
Middle-aged couple's adult children decide to emigrate to USA. Third movie in trilogy.
"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.
Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.
Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all to further her plans.
Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is likely to catch up with him.
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter.
Western heist movie; a complicated bank job goes bad, and two groups of thieves fight the sheriff and each other.
Family life in a squatter's-rights neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City.
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.
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Mistaken identities, courtship woes, invalidated marriages, and sombreros de charro.
Two showgirls need to find husbands in order to collect an inheritance.
Romantic melodrama set on a tiny island populated by fishermen and families.
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.
Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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.
Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's recovering, they also make friends with a homeless man. And then...
Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
South-of-the-border screen idol Pedro Infante, Sr. headlines the period drama Las Mujeres De Mi General, set during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s and '20s. Infante stars as a rebel general caught up in a tempestuous romantic tug-of-war between two women: his ex-girlfriend (Chula Prieto) and his wife (Lilia Prado). This love triangle yields devastating consequences for the wife, including imprisonment and estrangement from her child; when she is finally reunited with the baby and the general, all concerned (including the mistress) must face an onslaught of terror from bellicose governmental soldiers.
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
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...
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella.
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
A 1949 Mexican comedy drama film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García and Manolo Fábregas.
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
