Arturo de Córdova

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the...

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

A group of married couples intend to celebrate their traditional joyous dinner together. The festivities turn sour when an anonymous telephone caller...

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears...

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody...

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...

Felipe Crespo, because of their anarchist ideology, Barcelona fleeing persecution for justice. Starving, he reaches the manor house and asks for...

The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he...

A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair.

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they...

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet...

A jockey is pushed by his former trainer, in order to win one last race after his downfall into alcohol and depression.

Ivón, a chorus girl, Hugo, a failed writer, and Carlos, Hugo's young son, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night.

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged...

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.

Dr. Henry Mills a very renowned cardiac specialist, disagrees with his wife, because of their religious beliefs, and more particularly because it...

Nancy, a gambler's wife, holds elegance to disguise their poverty. While she waits, dreaming of a wealthy man to appear and save her from that...

A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder...

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two...

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in...

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally...

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself...

In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor...

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who...

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

Two train drivers find a little girl who escaped from a circus due to mistreatment and one of them decides to adopt her.

There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.

Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era...

Bachelor friend of a married couple gets caught up in the drama generated by the husband's philandering.

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.

Doctor Alejandro Mangino falls in love with Lucía just before he goes on a round-the-world trip. Pining for her all the while, he returns to find...

It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she...

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a...

Story about the rocky relationship between an engaged couple after the husband-to-be discovers a picture of his fiancée with an old boyfriend. He...

Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the...

Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.

Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.

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

Anthology film, four episodes.

Romantic melodrama

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.

Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.

A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.

Carita finds herself forced to reject the advances of her wealthy godfather because she already has a steady boyfriend. Spurned, the godfather...

She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...

On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage

Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.

After her child dies in an accident, a woman's marriage collapses and she goes into a convent.

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life...

A sympathetic elder docsplains life to a teenaged girl in his neighborhood.

College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters.

Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.

Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.

A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows...

Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial...

A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

Five young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he...

A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.

After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident

Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in...

In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete...

Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary...

The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher....

Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them...

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three...

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their...

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone...

A 1938 film.

In Mexico, during the early days of the 20th century, two young revolutionaries who are best friends fall in love with the same woman, and both...

A 1937 film.

A 1938 film.

Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.

A 1940 film.

A 1941 Mexican film.

A 1942 film.

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon...

A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.

Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang...

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a...

Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for...

Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences.

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.

For medical advice, Carlos and his wife, Julia go on vacation to a fashion beach. The hotel gets a new host, Roldós, known seducer of scandalous...

A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.

The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax...

Set during the centenary celebrations, it narrates the frustrated loves between a man from high society and a woman with a hectic romantic life.

1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive...

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.