Movies: Manuel Arvide

At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Many years later, Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich and decides to sear...

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop....

Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes....

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....

A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City....

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On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them....

Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with ano...

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

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac....

Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl....

A 1942 film....

Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men....

Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him....

An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire....

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Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?...

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

Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder....