Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the...
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the outskirts. Coromoto's fears are increased because of the presence of a snake and the prophecies of the sorcerers. His government is threatened by the...
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love...
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all to further her plans.