María Elena Marqués Movies

An Argentine arrives in Mexico and finds his vocation in music, succeeding as a tango singer. At the same time, he tries to conquer a capricious Mexican, who at first seems distant, slapping him, but she ends up kissing him.

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...

Girl goes to boarding school while her widowed father pursues a romance. His thing turns out badly, but she meets her future husband.

Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.

Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love...

Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different...

When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.

Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.

A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent.

Aristocratic family in decline, ascendency of a new moneyed class.

Interfering relatives complicate a couple's attempt to build their dream house.

Romantic triangle, land-owner and two employees.

Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.

A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.

Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...