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Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.
An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.
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Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
Nightclub owners try to scrape up enough money to sponsor a variety show on TV to publicize their artists and their venue.
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.
Mexican feature film
Paloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and he doesn't know that she is only pretending to be the daughter of the great business tycoon B. Quintana... she is in reality just an employee! But when a desperate Marcelo must take a job at Quintana's company, both their lies begin to unravel.
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.
Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
Tourist's eye overview of some highlights of Mexican history and folk culture, all expressed through interpretive dance.
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.
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
A prostitute in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord.
Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
Mexican romantic musical.
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Pedro and Cati live in the San Gregorio township. They must fight for their love despite the over-protection and fears of their families.
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.
Restaurant/nightclub is sinking into bankruptcy and management team pull wacky shit to try to get back on their feet.
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Three struggling musicians share an apartment.
Unscrupulous promoter creates hostilities that ruin the friendships between six young musicians.
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture.
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
The delegates of an international conference must decide on a "United Song", capturing the traditions and cultural characteristics of the participating countries. An unprecedented art showcase.
Lorenzo Inclán, a famous Mexican songwriter, is torn between helping a girl become a famous singer or having a romantic relationship with her.
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets!
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
Nightclub entertainer discovers the truth about her birth mother while making the right choice in her love life, choosing the good guy over the slimy, exploitative hoodlum.
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.
Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man.
