Fever Mounts at El Pao

Fever Mounts at El Pao 1959

6.10

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.

1959

Memorias de un Visitador Médico

Memorias de un Visitador Médico 1980

5.00

A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous

1980

The Sword and the Cross

The Sword and the Cross 1956

4.80

Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.

1956

Canaima

Canaima 1945

6.00

College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.

1945

Maclovia

Maclovia 1948

6.50

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.

1948

El conde de Montecristo

El conde de Montecristo 1942

5.30

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

1942

The Seven Cucas

The Seven Cucas 1981

6.40

A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.

1981

El mil amores

El mil amores 1954

7.20

Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu

1954

For your damn love

For your damn love 1990

6.92

One man must decide two women: one is mature, confident, and an owner of land while the other is young, beautiful, and impetuous. But there’s a problem, they’re both sisters.

1990

Gitana tenías que ser

Gitana tenías que ser 1953

7.50

Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.

1953

Me traes de un ala

Me traes de un ala 1953

5.90

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

1953

Doña Diabla

Doña Diabla 1950

7.10

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.

1950

My Son, the Hero

My Son, the Hero 1961

8.00

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

1961

Far from Heaven

Far from Heaven 1952

7.60

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.

1952

A Place Close to Heaven

A Place Close to Heaven 1952

8.20

On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.

1952

Camelia

Camelia 1954

5.00

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

1954

Black Is My Color

Black Is My Color 1951

5.20

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")

1951

Last Stop Paradise

Last Stop Paradise 1998

7.10

Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.

1998

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963) 1964

5.50

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

1964