Jorge Arriaga Movies

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.

A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but...

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for...

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is...

Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty...

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a...

A dangerous gangster, called Álvaro Rambal, is captured by the police. Hoping to be forgiven before his execution, he tells the story of his...

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past...

A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.

Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.

Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.

Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting...

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who...

When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.