María Gentil Arcos

Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.  (more)

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As ...  (more)

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 townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the ...  (more)

The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.  (more)

A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.  (more)

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.  (more)

When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.  (more)

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.  (more)

A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without parental support.  (more)

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Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...  (more)

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.  (more)

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.  (more)

Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!  (more)

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who ...  (more)

Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...  (more)

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...  (more)

Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.  (more)

Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.  (more)

Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice ...  (more)