Acting
The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.
After a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase.
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de EstĂo" of RamĂłn MarĂa del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends.
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
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.
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Saloon singer creates conflict between several potential boyfriends.
