Jorge Arriaga
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Kid Tabaco (1955)
Tony Ray is not enough to impress Diana thus decides to become a boxer. At last he can have it all: money and feel worthy enough to propose.
Lonely Stars (2015)
To the beat of punk and pop, Valentina and Joana pursue their most intimate and deepest dreams. On the road to success, they will find obstacles that...
Rosenda (1948)
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
La casa colorada (1947)
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
El charro Negro en el norte (1949)
Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.
El muchacho alegre (1948)
Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody...
Beautiful Michoacán (1943)
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Cuando acaba la noche (1950)
Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is...
El reino de los gángsters (1948)
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
Drop the Curtain (1955)
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a...
The River and Death (1954)
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...
The Shadow of the Tyrant (1960)
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...
We the Poor (1948)
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty...
You the Rich (1948)
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Cuando lloran los valientes (1947)
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Canto a mi tierra (1938)
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Midnight (1949)
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
Las puertas del presidio (1949)
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
They Say I'm a Communist (1951)
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who...
La fe en Dios (1950)
Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.
Pecadora (1947)
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
Yo maté a Juan Charrasqueado (1949)
Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.
El beisbolista fenómeno (1952)
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime....
Hombres sin alma (1951)
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things...
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Carta Brava (1949)
Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.
Frontera norte (1953)
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.