Roberto Gavaldón

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him... (imdb)

In colonial Mexico, a wealthy plantation owner forces his slaves to taste some-times poisonous mushrooms, which are used in a family recipe and served at lavish parties. (imdb)

This twisted film noir stars Dolores del Río in a dual role as rival twins. Maria is a poor manicurist while Magdalena is the recently widowed wife of a millionaire. Always the "bad girl," Maria hatches a murderous plan to take her sister's place,only to discover--upon assuming her sister's identity--that Magdalena wasn't quite the "good girl" she made herself out to be. (mubi.com)

In the Mexican fishing village of Topolobampo, a man has his pride and a woman has her reputation. Pepe, a hothead jailed once for violence, is tested when a drunken sailor's chance remark gets him doubting that his wife Magdalena's child is his. After a six-year absence, gringo Jim Gatsby is in town with a scheme to make a lot of money using a depth reader to locate schools of shrimp: he'll wait outside the limits of Mexican waters and shrimpers will bring him their catch. (imdb)

After Palermo falls in 1793, a notorious ladies man joins the underground resistance movement--but still finds time for the ladies. (imdb)

Cantinflas adds his own unique brand of comedy as Sancho Panza in a very loose adaptation of Cervantes' novel.

Jaime Karin is an astrologer, fortune teller and a scam artist, who uses his wife who works in an elegant beauty salon, to find out information on future wealthy clients, through her he learns that a millionaire Vittorio Romano died shortly after learning of his wife's infidelity. Karin befriends the woman and learns that she and her lover murdered her husband, now the woman claims to love the astrologer and wants him to help her get rid of her lover.

Armida and her maid Demetria are living together in an old and very strange house. One day her niece and her husband comes to visit implying that they want to get to know her better, but they are actually there looking for gold which they think Armida has hidden under her house.

An artist model who leads the ever hapless Arturo de Córdova away from the arms of his innocent, blue-eyed wife and down, down, down into the ecstatic depths of degradation which include a stop at seedy Panamanian nightclub. (imdb)

A research scientist (Ricardo Montalbán) is sent by his pharmaceutical company into the jungles around Veracruz to find a wonder drug but instead comes upon a strange young woman (Ariadne Welter). He falls in love but her father wants him dead. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

Since her mother and brother died of schizophrenia, Marta lives her life fearful that the disease is congenital. She overprotects her only child to the extreme. Due to her obsession, Marta does not realize that the only one affected psychologically in her family is her.

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

An illiterate Native American lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him are irrevocably destroyed as the company takes over the land by crooked means. (imdb)

A lonely country woman embarks on a marriage with a city chauffeur which is doomed to fail.

In Segovia at the beginning of the thirties the hoarder widower and Marcos must be prudent but has relations with the sterile prostitute Mercedes every week. (imdb)

Marco Antonio's spirit meets another spirit that invites him to know Cleopatra.

A dramatic story which tells the love between a beautiful woman named Gabriela and a revolutionary man. All framed by violent and exciting battles.

García Mata, civil servant, arrives to the village to investigate Cardoza's murder, a candidate to the local presidency, enemy of "cacique" Rosauro Castro.

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.

In rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel (barraca), the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of "another" working the land that once belonged to one of them.