Roberto Gavaldón Movies

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions,...

A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho...

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.

Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the...

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

Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a...

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the...

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows...

In Segovia at the beginning of the thirties the hoarder widower and Marcos must be prudent but has relations with the sterile prostitute Mercedes...

Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent...

Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a...

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse...

Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.

Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon...

The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind...

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...

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she...