Jorge Arriaga

Tony Ray is not enough to impress Diana thus decides to become a boxer. At last he can have it all: money and feel worthy enough to propose.

To the beat of punk and pop, Valentina and Joana pursue their most intimate and deepest dreams. On the road to success, they will find obstacles that...

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.

Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.

Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.

Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody...

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.

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is...

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a...

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for...

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty...

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.

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

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

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who...

Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.

In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past...

Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.

The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime....

Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things...

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.

Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

Twin brothers, one of them a bandit, in Mexican California.

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.

Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise...

Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.

Some elderly people mortgage their house to pay the debts of their children, but they do not return the money and lose their house.

A dangerous gangster, called Álvaro Rambal, is captured by the police. Hoping to be forgiven before his execution, he tells the story of his life to...

A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.

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...