Películas de Manuel Dondé

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join...

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her...

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

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort...

Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a...

Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the...

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

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

Camelia, a prostitute who works in a low-class cabaret in Mexico City (called "The Blood Stain') meets Guillermo, a young man from the country who...

An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.

El Piporro, desperate to earn more money, decides to fight and put his skills to the test in the rodeo using a nickname.

Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising.

Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder. Meanwhile, the tough broad who owns the bar...

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...

A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that...

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.

Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.

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...

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions,...

Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

Three brothers cowboy-up to battle crime. Based on a radio serial.

Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

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

Zorro imitation, first in a series.

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

Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.

Two brothers are trying to raise emergency cash by doing cockfights and horse-races. They meet two sisters.

An innocent love withers when a terrible truth is uncovered.

Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.

A Venezuelan rancher tries to preserve his traditional way of life in spite of modernizing influences brought when international business discovers...

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries...

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside,...

Western with romance subplot.

Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation.

An anxious father wants to trap the Sanchez brothers into marrying his two daughters.

Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.

Picaresque adventures of two small-time crooks, ligging around on the periphery of the Mexican revolution.

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

Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody...

Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on...

Western sheriff's black-sheep son becomes responsible for keeping order in town while his father is recovering from a gunshot.

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.

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

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles...

While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many...

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him...

A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.

When Santo beat to Estrangulador, one of his strongest enemies, thought not ever see it, but thanks to Tor returns to avenge the death of Santo.

A taxi driver winds up working as a butler for a scientist who is trying to revive mummies.

A newlywed couple find themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house...

A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.

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

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band...

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep...

Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.

A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in...

Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to...

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

Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for...

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of...

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father...

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the...

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a...

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.

A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town...

The story of a single mother and her children, and the lives that cross their paths.

A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

A 1940 film.

A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

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

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.

Three young women are ready to marry, but their father inserts himself into the decision-making process.

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

A woman hires four gunmen, Trinidad, Doc, Satan and The Renegade to rob a bank, but things don't work out as planned.

A motley crew of seven outlaws are pressed into service to defend a town from marauding Apaches, then two of them are appointed co-Sheriffs. Also...

Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule....

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

After serving a prison sentence, a guy goes after the gang-leader who framed him.

Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.

Evil aristocrat covets his brother's wife, swordsman-for-hire comes to her rescue.

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

1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his...

Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off...

A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a...

Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs...

Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.

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

Three-episode sex farce.

A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape...

Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son...

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.

Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son...

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer...

A factory worker gets pregnant by the son of her boss, who forces his son to marry a rich girl he doesn't love.

When an inexperienced police officer discovers a corpse while inspecting a crime scene, he flees with no explanation. However, that action will help...

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.

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...

The playboy Roberto "El Suavecito" takes very comfortable working relationship with Lupita, despite his constant infidelities. One night in a...

Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico...

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...

Mexican movie

Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts...

Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.

This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and...

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon...

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

Rookie reporter and his publisher's daughter get caught up in a bizarre crime/traffic accident noir dilemma.

Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria...

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...

Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill...

Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they...

Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure....

A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the...

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

A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.

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...

Mexican movie

Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse...

Historical drama, French occupation of the 1830s.

Mexican feature film

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...

Santo battles the Strangler.

Blue Demon returns in one of his best adventures like Agent Zero, who this time is facing a criminal organization that attempts to poison the world...

If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it! Xochitl, the mummy, can turn into a snake or a bat,...

Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.

The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful...

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...

Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide...

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