Roberto Gavaldón

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)

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.

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)

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.