Movies: Manuel Dondé

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret....

Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel....

Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain....

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

Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab....

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from...

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter o...

Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his...

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister....

A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead....

Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son....

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath....

Shady waterfront guy rents a yacht from a married couple and they all go off on a secret mission together....

The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner...

Taciturn gunslinger 'helps out' a widow lady under siege from bad guys....

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storm...

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at...

Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it....

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

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before...