While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns...

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful...

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...

Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.

Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.

During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up...

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era...

A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one...

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.

In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were...

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon...

Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.

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

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the...

A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The...

Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on...

Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.

Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.

Extremely loose adaptation of Little Women, set in 1970s; three teenaged girls and a younger sister live alone after the death of their parents.

Rodolfo wants to marry the aristocrat Adriana who rejects him. Humberto, her brother, kills a man for her. Rodolfo attributes the crime to the gypsy...

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.

Bar-band yout gets groomed for stardom: exploitative management and loss of personal authenticity are the result. Can he pull out of his Siempre En...

After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.

A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.

A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent.

A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.

Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen...

Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.

Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone...

There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine...

Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in...

Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.

The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his...