Películas de Miguel Manzano

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

Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk...

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female...

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

Argentine woman stranded in plane-crash, falls for Mexican plantation-owner.

Set in the 1820s; an unhappy love affair and some family problems drive a young gentleman to banditry.

Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.

Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman

Empty nest syndrome, #1388.

Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life.

Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.

(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.

A 1941 Mexican film.

Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts in town.

Reporter investigating an actress' death gains an overview of her whole biography.

Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.

Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.

Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind.

The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his...

Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work...

Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing.

Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win...

Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family...

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.

Five cowboy avengers avenging. Cowboyishly.

Gloomy, fatalistic grown-up western.

Masked hero on horseback,. number 1 of short-lived series.

Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

The Big Bad Wolf and the Stinky Little Skunk from the Caperucita Roja movies in their final adventure, as swashbuckling 17th century swordsmen in a...

Well, there's a guy that runs a stall at A Swap Meet, and... um... I forget.

Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.

Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.

Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.

Public-works engineer entrusted with a big project faces problems in his home life and conflicts with a corrupt local businessman.

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of...

Music teacher gets all tangled up with a nightclub singer, after seeing his students ogling her advertisements.

Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.

Mexican horror-crime-type film, with a group of young people going on a brutal rape and home-invasion-killing crime spree and filming their escapades...

Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to...

Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet...

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

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...

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

Ramon is a guy who lives in a neighborhood, in the " fifth courtyard " in urban poverty. Nevertheless, aspires to the love of the daughter of his...

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no...

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal)...

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A...

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...

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses...

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...

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

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...

Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized...

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city....

Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a...

A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.

Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at stake.

The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And...

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....

Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.

In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat...

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often...

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

An altar boy goes to the city and finds himself in raunchy situations.

A small-town woman with psychic sensitivities gets tangled up in the blood-feud between two families and in a romantic rivalry with her best friend.

Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications.

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

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

Young widower wants a new mommy for his preschool daughter. So to speak.

Young dancer joins the cast of a musical-comedy production, falls in love with young comic actor.

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...

Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes...

The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.

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

College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.

Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd...

Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible...

Comical misadventures: lady taxi-driver + doofus policemen.

Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped believing in God since her jealous husband was...

A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because...

A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.

Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de...

Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An...

Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.

Softcore sex-farce about a guy with a really big lump in his underpants...and all the women who flock to him.

The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.

A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.

The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life,...

The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.

A small disparate group of people are aboard a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires.

The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his...

Mexican movie

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the...

Mexican feature film

1946 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta.