1940s Mexican Movies

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

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

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.

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Traveling salesman falls for shopkeeper's daughter in one of the towns on his route. Bad news: she already has two suitors among the local fellers.

Young landowner wants to get married, but family problems are interfering with his plans.

This is an early film from Director Gilberto Martinez Solares, who would go on to become better-known for his unique perspective on horror films of the 60's and 70's - like "Santanico Pademonium" "Face of the Screaming Wolf" and his own "House of Terror", (these features, in turn, would inspire future award-wining Directors such as Tarantino and Del Toro). As far as Resurreccion goes, it is a semi-historical Drama, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel also titled "Resurrection" . However, Solares' movie loosely uses the start of the 1910 to 1920 Mexican Revolution as its cornerstone, (instead of the Russian battle that Tolstoy relied on for his 1899 literary work ). It essentially documents one man's effort to find redemption for his past sins. It stars actors Emilio Tuero, Lupita Tovar, Sara Garcia and Jose Pulido, among others.

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.

Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.

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 dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.

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Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station.

Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.

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.

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 corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.

A 1940 film directed by Boris Maicon.

Priest Jesus knows a dark secret that was passed onto him during confession. When the town mayor threatens the integrity of some people, it is up to the priest to take action or remain silent.

The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...

Roving cowboy good-guys defend a farm family from the outlaw gang that's trying to take over their homestead.

A cluster of young performers will do just about anything to get their show produced.

Shipboard romance/comedy between a female executive and a guy with a lot of buttons on his tunic.

A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.

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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 jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.

Fictional story about the Escuadron 201 de Caza (201st Mexican Fighter Squadron), which participated in military campaigns in the Phillipines during WWII. It focuses primarily on two brothers, one who has a promising future as a doctor, who volunteer for this unit after Mexico declares war on Germany after the sinking of Mexican merchants by U-boats. The story also follows another young man, the son of a Spanish immigrant baker. He volunteers to pay what he feels is an unpaid debt to their new adopted country.

Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...

Army officer goes undercover to investigate political unrest in a border state.

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Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.

Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.

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 members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.

Divorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her late husband, leading a free and unconventional life; and Juanita, an employee at the courthouse where she meets Cristina, married but long abandoned by her husband.

Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another man.

Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.

A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,