Movies: Jorge Arriaga

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children....

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder....

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felo...

Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming 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 generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by p...

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times....

Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez....

Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life....

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation....

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back....

Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish....

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives firs...

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Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama....

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected....

When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love....

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as myster...

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her....

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution....

Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man....