Alfredo Varela

A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.

Le millionnaire Antonio offre à sa femme Elena une statue de femme nue en cadeau pour leur anniversaire de mariage. Le modèle qui a posé pour la statue est Raquel, l'amante d'Antonio. Raquel exige qu'Antonio divorce de sa femme et peu de temps après, elle meurt dans des circonstances mystérieuses. Antonio doit accepter d'épouser Raquel pour qu'on ne découvre pas que sa femme n'est pas morte de causes naturelles.

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

Manucure sans le sou, obligée de subir en silence les lourdes avances de certains de ses clients masculins, María envie sa sœur jumelle Magdalena, jeune veuve ayant hérité d'une immense fortune. Un jour, en essayant le manteau de vison de cette dernière et en admirant son reflet transfiguré dans un miroir, María comprend qu'une autre vie est à portée de main…María-MagdalenaDolores del Río, vedette mexicaine qui a aussi conquis Hollywood, porte avec maestria ce double rôle de Marie-Madeleine, à la fois victime et pécheresse, qui relègue au second plan une poignée de faire-valoir masculins. Un thriller d'une oppressante noirceur et d'une grande audace, tant sur la forme que dans son propos quasi féministe, empreint aussi d'une vision marxiste des rapports de classe. Le scénariste José Revueltas et le cadreur Alex Phillips, qui entament alors avec Roberto Gavaldón une collaboration fructueuse, comptent pour beaucoup dans la poignante beauté du film.

This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.

A Mexican family drama.

Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.

Carmen, Martin and Lucas, children of the Motherland, are imprisoned for protecting a fugitive indigenous person. Carmen is also really imprisoned for not giving in to the harassment of a Spanish Mayor. At the same time, the liberating conspiracy of Hidalgo, Allende, Aldama, and others is discovered, forcing them to start the Mexican War of Independence.