María Félix

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

Open details →

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.

Open details →

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

Open details →

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

Open details →

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.

Open details →

White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.

Open details →

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.

Open details →

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

Open details →

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.

Open details →

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.

Open details →

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 escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.

Open details →

This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.

Open details →

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

Open details →

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 brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.

Open details →

Open details →

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

Open details →

A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath like a woman’s scorn.

Open details →

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.

Open details →

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.

Open details →

A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds. His cohorts include a Nazi collaborator, a German refugee, and the white mistress of a prominent Liberian. A romance develops between the ex-pilot and the aforementioned mistress. Meanwhile, one of the conspirators (Curt Jurgens) has a last-minute attack of conscience, effectively queering the deal. The steamier romantic passages in Les Heros sont Fatigues had to be trimmed for American consumption.

Open details →

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.

Open details →

An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.

Open details →

In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.

Open details →

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 involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Open details →

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

Open details →

A woman who works doing chores in the convent where her paralyzed daughter, that believes that is dead, and falls in love of a doctor.

Open details →

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.

Open details →

Some peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a beautiful young woman, but they are unaware of her ambitious personality. When the father-in-law finds a treasure, everything gets complicated.

Open details →

A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.

Open details →