Last Stop Paradise

Last Stop Paradise 1998

7.20

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

El mil amores

El mil amores 1954

7.24

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

6.50

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

My Son, the Hero

My Son, the Hero 1961

8.10

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

The Afternoon of a Torturer

The Afternoon of a Torturer 2002

7.00

A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.

2002

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

The Devil Is a Woman

The Devil Is a Woman 1950

7.10

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

1950

Fever Mounts at El Pao

Fever Mounts at El Pao 1959

5.90

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

Chile Picante

Chile Picante 1983

4.50

A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover.

1983

Si, Mi vida

Si, Mi vida 1953

5.30

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.

1953

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

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

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

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

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

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

School for Buglars

School for Buglars 1958

7.10

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

1958

Vivir del cuento

Vivir del cuento 1959

5.00

X has to postpone his marriage for 3 months in order to collect a huge inheritance... so he hires Y to keep his fiancee and her father busy during the hiatus.

1959

Bello recuerdo

Bello recuerdo 1961

5.40

Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist.

1961