René Cardona

José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered...

A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.

This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.

Santo and Mantequilla Nápoles team up to end the curse of La Llorona by getting ahold of a special medallion. Unfortunately, La Llorona...

This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as...

Mexican feature film

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries...

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves...

Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975...

Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her...

The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father...

1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of...

An evil priestess and her twin sister battle for control of a powerful crystal.

Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead

Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.

Ranchera comedy.

Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.

Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring.

Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.

Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.

Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.

A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon...

Mexican feature film

Sixteenth century swordsmen adventure.

A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.

Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives

A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.

In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other...

After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.

A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.

A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.

Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of...

Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.

Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.

Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy'...

Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.

Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.

Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.

Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")

Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a...

Western with romance subplot.

Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.

Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.

Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.

Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.

Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

Mexican movie

In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter...

'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their...

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve...

A rare and impossible to find Mexican adventure / fantasy / horror.

The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy,...

The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.

Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns...

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called...

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three...

An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a...

A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.

A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages...

Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.

Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.

Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.

A 1932 film.

The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for...

Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to...

Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.

A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.

Male half of a young couple gets distracted from his family duties and considers abandoning his wife and daughter.

Mentally-ill eldest son creates havoc within an old-money farming family.

Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.

Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs...

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written...

The legend of their beach days, plus nights of sex.

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his...

Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is...

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon...

Mexican feature film

A magician suspected of having killed a colleague is arrested by the police, but his assistant helps him escape.

Mysterious wrestler-dude teams up with a teenaged boy and fights supervillainous criminal gang.

A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

Mexican movie

Mexican movie

Masked hero El enmascarado de oro faces a criminal that turns invisible.

Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi are tag-team Luchadoras, helping a scientist on a quest to discover an ancient Aztec treasure, but the fiendish Prince...

A woman travels to her past life with the help of Santo's past life regression machine

Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.

Joselito lives with his grandmother in a fishing village. His father went to America long ago to make a fortune. One day, the boy decides to travel...

When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to...

Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.

A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.

A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.

When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he...

Mexican feature film

Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975...

When Santo beat to Estrangulador, one of his strongest enemies, thought not ever see it, but thanks to Tor returns to avenge the death of Santo.

Professor Bruno Volpi spots some strange paintings on a cliff. He sends for Professor Zovek to help him discover its meaning. Zovek uses his powers...

An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.

A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.

A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people...

An Italian taxicab driver is used as a "breeding man" to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico.

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his...

Calpuina is a night-watchman in a wharehouse, a perfect job for him. When some thieves break in and steal some crates, El Santo is after them because...

Santo and Jorge Rivero team-up to stop an international syndicate from stealing Mexico's greatest treasure.

The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.

Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.

Ranchera comedy.

Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.

"Old dark house" spooky-comedy.

Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.

A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.

A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon...

Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture.

After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.

Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience...

Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for...

A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant...

Mysterious wrestler-dude teams up with a teenaged boy and fights supervillainous criminal gang.

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his...

Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.

Someone who wears a blue mask, is squat and has giant hands are killing people and stealing jewelry and money. The witnesses are afraid to talk,...

A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit.

Loose remake of Chaplin's The Kid.

Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.

Showbiz family is stressed when wife gets sick and husband starts paying attention to costar.

Santo battles the Strangler.

When Santo beat to Estrangulador, one of his strongest enemies, thought not ever see it, but thanks to Tor returns to avenge the death of Santo.

Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...

Pathetic shmuck loser tries to rival his twin brother's exploits in the Mexican Revolution.

A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes...

Masked avenger on horseback, one of a series.

Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.

Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.

Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.

Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.

Ice-cream vendor gets caught up in wacky misadventures.

Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")

Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to...

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to...

Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime

Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats.

Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.

Kids in an Ecuadorian slum have a benevolent doctor who tries to help them forward in life. Also they play soccer.

Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.

Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island...

Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.

At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he's fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon,...

Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island...

Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is...

Series western: Felipe Reyes el justiciero comes to town to track down a killer.

Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.

Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.

An endless series of disasters separates a mother from her children. It takes her over twenty years to find her way back to the bosom of her family.

This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutiful daughter who is about to wed a much older man...

A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon...

In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a...

Diana secretly owns a nightclub and has a son named Arturo. When Arturo gets his college degree, he decides to celebrate and goes to the nightclub he...

Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.

This largely forgotten film, often referred to by its English title, A New World, tells the story of an Insurance Adjuster who is sent out to...

Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.

Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the...

'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their...

An endless series of disasters separates a mother from her children. It takes her over twenty years to find her way back to the bosom of her family.

Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.

Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.

Blending historical fact and adventure fiction, Emiliano Zapata's (fictional) right-hand man takes leadership of his regiment after he's killed.

One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.

Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead

A lady wrestler and her boyfriend, a policeman, battle a mad scientist who has developed a murderous killer robot and uses it to kidnap wealthy...

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....

Alicia, the wife of the vengeful Gabino Barrera, is killed by an escaped convict. Stripped of the one woman he's ever loved, Gabino vows to make the...

Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror.

Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.

Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.

The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.

Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.

Santo battles the Strangler.

After a group of violent lepers escapes from a sanitarium, - robbing several farms, residents of the town demand the the sheriff - take action....

After a group of violent lepers escapes from a sanitarium, - robbing several farms, residents of the town demand the the sheriff - take action....

A magician suspected of having killed a colleague is arrested by the police, but his assistant helps him escape.

Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.

British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given...

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns...

After assassinating his boss -- who just so happens to be an important underworld crime figure -- Carlos (Andres Garcia) turns to the one place he...

Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.

Standing before Pancho Villa's tomb, horse breeder Jesus harkens back to his youth, when he provided bed and board to a nondescript laborer named...

1850s. Seminary student abandons the priesthood to fight for social justice in formerly-Mexican territories of the SW USA. Sequel to El Mexicano...

Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.

El vampire y el sexy (or Santo in the Treasure of Dracula in its censored version) is a 1968 Mexican film starring El Santo and directed by...

International playboys in NYC get mixed up with a bank robbery and have to evade the police long enough to reach Mexico. long the way, they pick up...

When Santo accompanies a troupe of archaeologists in the search for Aztec artifacts, they find the Mummy of an Aztec who leaves a warning to those...

Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.

Flamenco artist in Mexico draws attention from three suitors.

Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood... but he wants to join the army instead. Naughty uncle from Paris help him get out from...

Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings...

Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture.

Antonio is happy and is about to get married, but he has an enemy who wants to kill him. He steals his knife known by the whole town and kills a...

Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.

Timid city-boy hires two cowboy roughnecks to help him get out of an arranged marriage.

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws...

Mentally-ill eldest son creates havoc within an old-money farming family.

Struggling musician takes sympathy on a homeless woman and they build a life together.

At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he's fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon,...

Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.

Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.

Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him.

Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son...

A rich uncle thinks he's married with children, so a young gadabout recruits all his friends to pass themselves off as his wife, inlaws and children.

Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.

Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of...

Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of...

Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies...

In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently...

This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutiful daughter who is about to wed a much older man...

This is the story of a convict fellow whose brother is a bright scientist that discovers a vaccine against a deadly infection. The clash between good...

When the Texan returns to the town, seeking to secure his fortune, the sheriff of the place asks the Texano to come to the aid of a dear friend....

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws...

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns...

Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.