The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was also a victim of an assassination, had granted a taped interview to her husband. Padre Manuel hands the tape over to her. Esther accompanies the Padre and John, an American reporter, who are trying to find the murderers.
Alejandro Parodi Montaño (1928 - 2011) was a Mexican actor. Parodi made professional studies in photography, cinematography and theater. He studied drama with the teacher Seki Sano, in addition to having been a disciple of Alex Phillips. He taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana; with studies in Madrid, Spain. He participated in works of Spanish and German cinema. He alternated with actors such as Geraldine Chaplin, Gian Maria Volonté, Dean Stockwell, Marhe Keller, Kris Kristofferson, among others. He worked with directors such as: Miguel Littín, Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cazals, Alfredo Gurrola and Alejandro Pelayo.
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