Acting
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to a party at his home but she is snubbed by his mother and offended by a slighted pretender. Ernesto faces this man in a duel in which he is about to be killed by his rival, but Raquel protects his body and receives the bullet. She dies in Ernesto's arms.
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
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A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears.
Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.
A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman.
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her.
Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.
Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men.
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.
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.
