Tito Davison

Comatose little village gets rich overnight selling minerals to arms manufacturers.

Movie about the singer Rigo Tovar and his songs. The adventures and misadventures of a popular singer, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes

4.5/10

OMG, leukemia!

6.6/10

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.

6.6/10

Plantation-owner feels so cavalierly toward his peons that he grants himself the privilege of letting them die to gratify his whims. One of them has lived since childhood in the mansion and has become "almost like" a family member... which ends up causing considerable problems.

6.5/10

Adaptation of a popular telenovela about the love lives of the gals that work at a beauty salon.

5.7/10

Romance melodrama set in 19th century Colombia.

6.3/10

Story of a timid provincial girl Natacha Cervantes, who moves to the capital and enters to work like a maid in the house of the Pereira Family where she falls in love with the rich boy Raul Pereira.

5.8/10

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.

4.5/10

Life in a theatre-people hotel, mostly focusing on a singer and her young-adult daughter who just graduated from an expensive private school.

5.7/10

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

7.6/10

A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.

8/10

Wrestling melodrama.

A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.

6.9/10

Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.

5.4/10

Wife dies and hubby's free to marry his mistress of thirty years. Blending the families doesn't go too smoothly.

7/10

Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.

6.3/10

Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.

7.5/10

The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.

6.4/10

Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

5.2/10

The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.

6.6/10

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

6.5/10

The whaling captain, Antonio Grez, meets in a bar in the port of Valparaiso a very beautiful woman who lives haunted by the tragic premonition that fate will give her a violent death. Grez takes command of a whaler bound for Cape Horn and Antarctica. In Punta Arenas, the owner of the whaling company embarks on together with his fiancee, who is none other than the mysterious woman with whom Grez has fallen in love. The final route of the ship is the 'Land of Desolation', a place on which there is a curse and everyone knows that, for centuries, is has been fulfilled inexorably.

5.7/10

A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.

5.8/10

On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage

6.8/10

Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.

7.8/10

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

5.9/10

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.

7.1/10

Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.

4.5/10

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

Romantic melodrama

7.1/10

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")

6.3/10

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.

7.1/10

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

7.3/10

A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...

6.8/10

A 1949 film.

7.2/10

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

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

6.5/10

Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.

7.3/10

Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.

7.2/10

A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...

6.3/10

Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.

Venice Film Festival 1947

7/10

The romance between a young musician and a girl who dreams of happiness.

The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.

5.8/10

Directed by Luis César Amadori.

7.4/10

A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.

4.8/10

The Spanish-language version of 1930's The Big House.

6.3/10

A young mulatto finds himself with burning desires to serve God in colonial Peru. In a time during which slavery is in its peak, he struggles to show to slaves, priests and nobility that kindness, compassion and love has no boundaries.

7.2/10