Movies: Antonio R. Frausto

Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman....

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....

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 him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears....

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There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married....

A 1933 film....

Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man....

A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town....

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pa...

The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty....

Costume-drama, 1840s: bandits prey on the town of Yautepec for over twenty years....

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her....

Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella....

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mex...

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac....

Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama....

Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variat...

Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution....

The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the trage...

Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation....