Alfredo del Diestro
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El prisionero 13
May 31, 1933Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
Drama
El compadre Mendoza
Apr 05, 1934In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the former, he is a supporter of Huerta. For the latter, he is a Zapata supporter. Depending on the political preference of whoever visits him at his hacienda, he has portraits of Huerta or Zapata put up, and organizes a party in honor of his visitors. However, time goes by and the situation becomes untenable. For whom will he take sides?
Drama
Adios mi chaparrita
Jan 01, 1941Adán, Eva y el diablo
Aug 10, 1945Comedy
La casa del ogro
Jan 20, 1939Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
Drama
El rápido de las 9.15
Sep 11, 1941
La Llorona
Mar 31, 1933Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
Horror
La paloma
Aug 20, 1937Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
War
Se la llevó el Remington
Nov 04, 1948While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
Western
Fin de Fiesta
Dec 05, 1930Après un cambriolage dans un entrepôt au bord de la rivière Hudson à New-York, la police arrête Chico Brady accusé d'avoir tué un ouvrier au moment de sonner l'alarme. Un gardien, complice des voleurs, confirme l'accusation afin de protéger Juan, le chef du gang. Lorsque Chico est condamné à mort pour le crime, sa soeur Nora va tout faire pour prouver son innocence.
Romance
Ni sangre ni arena
May 22, 1941Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Comedy
Juárez y Maximiliano
Jun 28, 1934The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
History
Madre a la fuerza
Aug 01, 1940
El jefe máximo
Oct 01, 1940
Mi viuda alegre
Feb 22, 1942
Los de abajo
Jun 01, 1940During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
Drama
Revolución
Feb 08, 1933
Las mujeres mandan
Sep 28, 1937
El padre Morelos
Apr 22, 1943
Un milagro de amor
Dec 09, 1949Young 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...
La norteña de mis amores
Dec 25, 1948Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
Comedy
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Jun 15, 1949Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.
La ley del harem
Oct 09, 1931When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!
Drama
La noche del pecado
Dec 25, 1933La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Novara and produced by Contreras Torres in 1933.
Drama
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Jun 20, 1935
María
Oct 20, 1922María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.
Drama
María
Oct 20, 1922María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.
Drama
Fin de Fiesta
Dec 05, 1930María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.
Romance
María
Oct 20, 1922María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.
Drama
María
Oct 20, 1922María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.
Drama
El Asesino X
Mar 18, 1955A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
Crime
