José Elías Moreno

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to...

A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in...

After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene...

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...

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro...

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former...

A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.

Mexican movie

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.

A 1938 film.

Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and...

The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles...

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his...

The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked...

During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up...

Mexican movie

Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.

Army officer goes undercover to investigate political unrest in a border state.

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.

Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.

Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan...

Two spoiled rich kids learn to value their father's working-class heritage.

A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.

Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.

Two teenagers fall in love with each other for the first time.

Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.

Shipboard romance/comedy between a female executive and a guy with a lot of buttons on his tunic.

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

A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.

Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.

A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that...

An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.

Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.

Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?

Adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel Sobre la misma tierra. A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her...

Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer.

Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.

Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes for vacations.

On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage

Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.

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

Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation.

Six grown-up daughers need husbands. Is big problem for El amapolo.

The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between...

All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...

Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when...

Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.

M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.

After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.

Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.

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

A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret...

Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a...

Romanticized, glamored-up neorealism, life in a squatter's-rights shantytown.

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.

Melodrama about marital infidelity.

Doña Margarita, a lady of high society, wants for her son Pablo a wife of the same social level. He, however, loves the dressmaker’s...

Driven from their homestead by bandits, three brothers and sisters form an outlaw crew of their own and hide out in the mountains, orchestrating...

A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his...

Mexican movie

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep...

Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.

Young woman manipulates all three of the men of the hacienda, planning to marry the father and play with one or both of the young ones.

On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain...

A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.

With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is...

At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to...

Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

Mexican medical researchers are lost in a plane crash in the Amazon basin, which triggers a whole bunch of adventure-movie subplots.

Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the...

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...

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 a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the...

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

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in...

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three...

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.

In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results....

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

After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals...

Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger.

Comedy/drama about railroad workers.

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

A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.

Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads...

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American...

Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.

Mexican feature film

A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?

Cowboy-justice guy breaks up a criminal gang who are terrorizing a small town with the appearance of vampire activity.

Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In...

Two unknown performers try to break into television. Meanwhile, a guy that calls himself 'El Vengador' is doing a Phantom of the Opera number on the...

Cowboy on a revenge trip gets caught up in the sadistic games of some black-hats and goes through a whole narrative cycle with them before...

Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.

Spoiled rich girl has massive temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way; a business associate kidnaps her to his private island to teach her a...

Controlling papa won't let his daughters have boyfriends.

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los...

About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background...

The misunderstanding between two people; lack of consideration in marriage; the false image that the children of the parents have; the easy door; the...

A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and...

Mexican feature film

Luz en el páramo is a 1953 Venezuelan film directed by Víctor Urruchúa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.