Acting
Gertrudis and Armida are two young sisters with completely different personalities who learn to support each other after becoming orphans and being taken under the care of their aunt Luzmila, who denies them any kind of love. Between their innocence and their audacity, the two young women plan to escape, but everything goes wrong, they end up separated and thinking that the other one has died. It will take two decades for these two sisters to reunite.
Inspired by an exclusive interview and performance footage of Chavela Vargas shot in 1991 and guided by her unique voice, the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.
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.
Lucha Vazquez, a beautiful and wealthy young woman seems pursued by bad luck. She has had two boyfriends who died at the announcement of the wedding. Manuel, a young man from the same town is in love with Lucha, but she fears that if he falls in love, he will die too.
Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.
A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.
Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against the pride of the girl who initially believes that he is the bad character and distrusts him. She was very proud to put him at her feet, but there was a problem, Martin Corona was due more to his people than anyone and she was not willing to risk losing it, so before marrying him, made him swear he would not intervene In other problems.
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
A retired police officer looks for revenge after his family is attacked by a gang of criminals.
The story of four charming girls in a small town, trying to hang out with four boys.
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
Wealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic attention of a woman who lives down the road.
A mechanical marries a young but both lose their jobs and happiness again when they know they are expecting a child.
The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
A new recruit rises through the ranks of Pancho Villa's army as his leadership skills become apparent.
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
In the "Marquesa boarding house" lives a group of eclectic artists. They're trying to mount an spectacle to earn some money and pay their debt with the owner. At the same time arrives at the house a young car driver with a great voice, and a pretty model and dancer, who could help them and maybe fall in love between each other.
Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to their very different social backgrounds.
All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.
