Fernando Méndez

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

A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear...

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until...

Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife...

In Sierra Negra, graverobbers Barraza and Mendoza steal the coffin of Count Karol de Lavud, before heading to a hospital. Barraza sees a medallion...

A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.

Religious melodrama about the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Mexican movie

Mexican movie

Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family...

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life...

Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even...

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life...

Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.

Cowboy-hero series, number two of two: Townsfolk pledge all their jewels and valuables as security for a large loan to undertake a public works...

Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

Hurricane Ramirez is the new manager of the arena and champion of the ring. He must battle with The Prince, a ruthless criminal who will try to end...

Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...

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

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside,...

Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.

A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour...

Cowboy comedy turns serious and adventure-y in the middle. Sequel to Los hermanos diablo.

An adventure thriller directed by Fernando Méndez.

Three brothers cowboy-up to battle crime. Based on a radio serial.

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.

A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his...

When the pregnant Esther gets some bad news from her doctor, he advises her to visit a clinic in Mexico City, so she enlists husband Antonio to drive...

When the pregnant Esther gets some bad news from her doctor, he advises her to visit a clinic in Mexico City, so she enlists husband Antonio to drive...

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.

Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath...

The classic family with more sisters and one brother who has to deal with all the naughty words about being the brother in law of many.

Cowboy-hero series, number two of two: Townsfolk pledge all their jewels and valuables as security for a large loan to undertake a public works...

Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.

After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals...

Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.

Two young sweethearts get tangled up with a bad guy and a stolen necklace.

The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild...

After the ending of the War Of Independence, a Mexican officer goes roguish to get personal revenge on an enemy combatant who killed his father and...

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.

Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his...

Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.

Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las...

Spoiled rich girl has massive temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way; a business associate kidnaps her to his private island to teach her a...

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

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life...

Three good guys vs a bad dude who sells weapons to the Apaches and provokes a range war between US Cavalry and a splinter group of tribesmen,...

Contrabando is an adventure film. The film tells of the millionaire Hernández who smuggles weapons from the United States into Mexico. He does...

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.

Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.

Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.