Gabriel Figueroa Movies

To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician...

The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.

A 1936 film.

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon...

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.

Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless,...

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.

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.

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...

The bride of a Federale colonel rejects him on their wedding night, and begins extramarital relations with a strapping young leader of the peasant...

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

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