Emilio Fernández
Series
Colección Pedro Infante volume 14
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
A man confesses to a crime he didn't commit in order to protect his family's honor.
Series
Publisher
Jalisco Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Drinking buddies Juan and El Cuervo go to Juan's home town where they are met by Juan's brother, Jorge--who is now a doctor in the capital--and his brother, Don Armando, who doesn't recognize his eldest son because he has been away for so long. At the church, Juan is reminded of the night Jorge and he saw their mother killed by drunks who were horseracing outside the church. At the time, the brothers had sworn to avenge their mother, but Jorge no...
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
El peñon de las ánimas: A couple's romance is disrupted because of past family rivalries. Fernando's father killed Maria Angela's. When Maria Angela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Angela plans her escape with Fernando.
El rapto: Ricardo Alfaro, a rancher, is given up for dead but later returns to his land. On his way home, he meets a beautiful woman, Aurora. Ricardo...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1222
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A treasure of Mexico's cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo musical is a dazzling showcase for iconic star Ninn̤ Sevilla. She brings fierce charisma and fiery strength to her role as a rumbera a female nightclub dancer who gives up everything to raise an abandoned boy, whom she must protect from his ruthless gangster father.
8) El Rapto
Series
Publisher
Veracruz
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Aurora una tenaz mujer de carácter fuerte y seductora belleza llegó al pintoresco Santiago de Alfaro, sedujo a las "honestísimas" autoridades municipales para comprarles la hacienda del "desaparecido" Ricardo Alfaro. Pero Ricardo ha regresado y al llegar a su casa encuentra que ya no es de él. Inmediatamente Ricardo le reclama a las autoridades mientras una escandalosa y falaz Aurora, lo acusa de haberla golpeado. Se inicia un juicio y...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Ventura Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
During the Mexican Civil War, rancher Demetrio's house is burned down by a local boss. Demetrio leaves to join the revolutionary forces, but eventually joins the pro-Villa army where he is promoted to colonel before returning home for revenge.
10) Pueblito
Series
Publisher
Studio Latino, Excalibur Media Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Un joven igeniero llega a un pueblo requerido por la maestra del mismo, quien le pide que construya una nueva escuela a lo cual el cacique del pueblo se opone. El ingeniero le salva la vida del ahijado del cacique. La gente del pueblo coopera para la construcción de la escuela pero aún así el cacique nLo está dispuesto a permitir que se construya la escuela. Todo se complica cuando el ingeniero conoce a la esposa del cacique.
11) Río escondido
Series
Publisher
MediaLink
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
A rural Mexican town fights against injustice when a cruel man's greed leaves them starving and miserable.
12) Flor Silvestre
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
When a landowner's son marries a laborer's granddaughter, his father disowns him and he joins the revolutionary element in Mexico. He later learns that a band of outlaws, opposed to the revolutionaries, has killed his father.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Sam Peckinpah, the legendary director of Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, The Getaway and Convoy, comes this audacious crime drama starring the great Warren Oates. When a Mexican land baron puts a million dollars on the head of the man who seduced and impregnated his daughter, two money-hungry hired killers recruit a small-town bartender to help them do their dirty work. But their tequila-fueled trek across the desolate Mexican...
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Distinto amanecer: Julieta, a cabaret dancer, and her husband, Ignacio, a disgruntled bureaucrat and frustrated writer, are thrust back into the activism of their student days when Julieta meets up with Octavio, an old boyfriend who has become a labor organizer. Octavio enlists the couple's help as he races to find the set of documents which implicate a corrupt governor in the murder of a union leader.
La perla: After many unsuccessful dives off...
15) Las abandonadas
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Las abandonadas: A woman abandoned by her fiancé is obliged to do all kinds of work until she falls into the trap of prostitution. She has a son and manages to bring him up, paying his schooling without him knowing it. At the end her son mistakes her for a beggar and gives her money.
Bugambilia: Tells the story of a complex love affair between a foreman and the daughter of a mine owner.
16) La Choca
Series
Publisher
AMACC, Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Martin, a smuggler, lives in a mountain hut with his wife, La Choca, his father, his son little Martin, and Flor, Martin's sister. They live through hardship to make ends meet, and Martin does some smuggling, but he repents and turns in some of his former colleagues in. Later, three of them arrive, accuse him of having betrayed them, and all hell breaks loose. Only can La Choca take them on.
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Flor Silvestre: When a landowner's son marries a laborer's granddaughter, his father disowns him and he joins the revolutionary element in Mexico. He later learns that a band of outlaws, opposed to the revolutionists, has killed his father.
Subido al cielo: The story of a young peasant who is forced by his brothers to leave his bride on their wedding night to see their dying mother. Knowing that most of her sons are just waiting for her to die in...