Luis Alcoriza Movies

A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a...

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

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...

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities...

Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life...

Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.

Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their...

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the...

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an...

A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his ​​family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when...

Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband,...

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

Venice Film Festival 1948

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to...