Movies: Sofía Álvarez

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The r...

Olga discovers the unfinished diary of a notorious killer and becomes captivated by its dark secrets. As she delves deeper, she uncovers a mysterious connection between them, putting her life—and the lives of those around her—in grave danger....

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up al...

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have be...

Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc....

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

A 1933 film....

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family....

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....

Ana, a nine year old girl, arrives with her mother to an isolated beach with the intention to rest and to know the sea. There, she discovers that they are under a terrible threat, therefore she is obligated to look for help with her father in order t...

Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle....

Ranch-heiress chooses a husband....

Doña Margarita, a lady of high society, wants for her son Pablo a wife of the same social level. He, however, loves the dressmaker’s daughter, whom he secretly marries thanks to the services of a priest friend. The couple must continue fighting again...

Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes....

Two wandering cowboys are falsely accused of murder....

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Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators....

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series....

Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")...

Two girls find love in the most unexpected places in modern-day Mexico City....