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Browse 34 movies from Cinematográfica Filmex S.A
Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.
Nov 1962
Blending historical fact and adventure fiction, Emiliano Zapata's (fictional) right-hand man takes leadership of his regiment after he's killed.
May 1968
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Sep 1959
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 there to meet him. He takes courage and embarks on a fragile boat and miraculously is saved at sea by a vessel that leads him to Mexico where he meets Tom Thumb, a little newsboy who lives many adventures and helps him in the search.
Sep 1960
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
Jan 1950
To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love.
Oct 1953
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
Feb 1950
A bad man holds the power of life and death over the inhabitants of a village... for no apparent reason... and he's fond of torturing them, tying them to crosses and leaving them to die. A cowboy with necromantic powers comes along and leads a rebellion to overthrow that reign of terror.
Jul 1975
Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
Nov 1951
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Dec 1949
Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.
Sep 1980
Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
Sep 1953
A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?
Jun 1964
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
Oct 1955
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
Jan 1972
Anthology film, four episodes.
Aug 1955
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Feb 1953
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
Apr 1955
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Jan 1946
Cándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..
Apr 1964