José Chávez

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he...

Chanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a gang that extracts uranium.

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of...

The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican...

An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true...

Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.

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...

A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.

Thousands of peasants are kidnapped by the mafia and are forced to work in marijuana fields. Facing violence, death, & desperately fighting for their...

In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often...

Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his...

A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a...

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama,...

Young Mexican-American studies for his MD and triumphs as a professional wrestler while his brother and sister stagnate in the barrio.

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is...

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

A federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.

After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into...

Gambler-horsethief-womanizer ends up hiding out in a church-run orphanage. Spiritual regeneration stuff happens.

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work...

After being gunned down in a bar-fight, a guy reappears in town looking for revenge on his murderer.

Two couples get their babies confused in the maternity ward. twenty years later, the children are both identical to the father... in the other family.

Venezuelan guy and Mexican rancher get competitive toward each other -- mostly over "the girl".

B-movie western, sequel to El solitario.

After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.

A South American expedition is in search of fortune thought to be hidden in an Lost Aztec city. While trudging through the jungles the main character...

Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up...

Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.

Masked hero on horseback. One in a series.

A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.

Bandits rob mail from stagecoach. First in series of two.

Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.

Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.

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

Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the...

Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside,...

Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.

Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series.

Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.

Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...

Another Cowboy-Justice-Hero. One-shot, not part of a series.

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama,...

Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.

Backwards fishing village is home to a widow and her teenaged daughter. Neighbors suspect the mother of having murdered her husband. A tourist in...

Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.

Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.

On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.

Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.

A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an...

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine,...

Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.

Appointed by the dictator Huerta, a local official tries to use his authority to pressure a young woman into marrying him. Meanwhile,...

The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.

When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start disappearing, the locals point the suspicion at two young visitors. The only solution is for...

When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the...

Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.

Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene...

Young woman disguised as a man sets out to kill two brothers that she believes cheated her father out of his property. She discovers they were...

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form...

A sex killer is on the loose.

A yeti-like monster is stalking the mountains of rural Mexico, sometimes displaying the powers of hypnosis. It ultimately plays a part in destroying...

A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns...

El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz...

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.

Tomboy grows up, overalls to frilly pastel dresses. And even a husband.

Two brothers that run a trucking business get involved with ferrying undocumented immigrants into the US after rescuing a group of people from an...

Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets...

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...

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...

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no...

It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the...

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool...

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to...

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk...

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of...

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...

Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows...

During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.

Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded...

The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son...

Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.

A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a...

A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.

Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.

The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his...

Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.

Raange war between two feuding ranch families in the 1930s.

Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his...

Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.

After her family all are killed in a home invasion, young woman moves to the city, gets involved with a high-level drug-smuggling tycoon. And also a...

A 1968 film.

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized...

Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."

Sttreet vendors get caught up in the beef between their wholesale supplier and one of his competitors.

Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the...

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...

A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.

Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old...

Saloon singer creates conflict between several potential boyfriends.

Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.

Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse.

Two young, millionaire couples are commemorating the birthday of one of them. Jealousy, desire and ambition will end in tragedy and a dead man.

Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance...

Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer...

Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, there are can-can girls.

Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and...

Pre-teen, and his orphaned best-bud, live by their wits while his mom is serving a prison sentence.

A man and his wife discover they are in danger when they hear reports of a Yeti that lives on a nearby volcano is on the prowl.

Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can't end well...

A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a...

Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.

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...

Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby...

Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.

Innocent trucker is blackmailed into transporting drugs from Tijuana to Guadalajara. He gets killed at a police checkpoint and his partners goes...

In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.

Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.

Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still...

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

Three con-artists chase after the absconded girlfriend of one and butt heads with two female swindlers working the same marks.

A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also...

A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for...

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.

Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa

In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and...

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written...

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

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...

Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.

Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a...

A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not...

Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.

Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea...

Luis lives in the jungle with his parents and his many pets. His favorite pet is his monkey named Pancho. He finds a hide out where he and his friend...

A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling...

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing...

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural...

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.

Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.

Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.

A man goes to Mexico to attend his father's funeral, 30 years after his father supposedly died.

Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.

During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.

Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple...

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt,...

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for...

When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most...

A quirky peeper with a telescope accidentally discovers serial-killer activity across the courtyard.

The Sanchez clan have seen the worst of times, but they have survived by sticking together. When Sanchez's oldest daughter Consuelo plans to build a...

Elías, a banker and the secret leader of a gang, tries to persuade Pedro—the father of young Laura and little Chava—to sell him his ranch. Five...

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

Story about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his...

After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.

Obscure Mexican film.

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

Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city...

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon...