Movies: Alfredo del Diestro

In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the former, he is a supporter of Huerta. For the latter, he is a Zapata supporter. Depending on the political...

Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variat...

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives firs...

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pint...

While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington,...

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy....

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

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A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado....

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A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley....

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A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime....

Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer....

María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everythin...

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The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota....

Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accep...