Manuel Barbachano Ponce Movies

A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she...

A soldier is assigned to guard the body of a man who was shot. During the night, he encounters a widow who is watching over the burial of her...

Short documentary

Luisa returns to her village, where she cares for her uncle on his deathbed, who tells her the story of his life with a hidden purpose.

Short documentary. Plot unknown

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

Collection of comedy sketches and blackout gags edited into feature-length movie. Laugh-In style.

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this...

Sketch comedy and blackout gags -- format like Laugh-In. Number two in a series.

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

Short-attention-span sketch comedy and black-out gags, assembled into a movie. Structured like TV show "Laugh-In". First of three in series.

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...

Four stories: The encounter between a soldier and a widow in a cemetery. A woman arrives as a maid in an unknown city where she discovers love....

Short documentary on the history of Mexican muralism around the mid-20th century. It took part in the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Documentary short on Mexico’s electric power industry.

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the...

A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by...