Maruja Grifell

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

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A man long thought dead returns to his fishing village home to find the love he left married to the village’s top power broker, a man who control’s the fish production with an iron fist.

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.

A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.

Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.

Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.

Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.

Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.

Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.

In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.

A young man goes to the city to make his fortune, unaware that fate is preparing a surprise for him. He will fall in love on the train.

A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.

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Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who helps her succeed.

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Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.

An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.

Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.

A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.

A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.

After a party, two friends pick up two beautiful girls with whom they spend a wonderful night. The next day, the two friends return to look for them and a neighbor surprises them when she tells them that the girls died some time before. Intrigued by the events of the previous night, one of them decides to investigate the mystery of the two dead girls.

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To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.

A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.

A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.

Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.

Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.

Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them.

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Mexican feature film

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A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.

A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).

Manuel is a mechanic in love with the beautiful Maria Teresa. When the rich Jose Antonio courts his beloved Maria, Manuel realizes that he needs money and gets into trouble to get it.

An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.

A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.

Rosa, a working-class young woman, falls in love with the physician Armando de la Vega. After they spend a night together, she discovers that she is pregnant. Armando, however, marries another woman, and the couple leaves for Paris, where he remains for several years. Upon his return, disillusioned with his marriage, he meets the famous cabaret star Alma Rosa, not realizing that she is Rosa, now performing under a stage name.

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

A young woman who has seen better (and richer) days wants to marry a rich man because she is used to the luxuries that she no longer has.

Mexican feature film

Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.