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- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsFernando SolerDavid SilvaMartha RothA strict patriarch exercises almost absolute control over his family and uses it to impose his vision of order and conservative family values. However, the budding sexuality of some of his children causes the union to unravel.
- DirectorAlberto GoutStarsNinón SevillaTito JuncoAndrea PalmaLeft 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. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroFernando de FuentesStarsAlfredo del DiestroCarmen GuerreroAntonio R. FraustoDuring Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend of his guests. Eventually, the situation becomes unsustainable and he has to take sides. Betrayal and deception overcome and Mendoza's dark side surfaces.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela IndaA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsAntonio R. FraustoDomingo SolerManuel TamésThe Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. After several battles and valiant heroics, the original group is eventually reduced to the leader Tiburcio Maya (Frausto) and young Becerrillo (Vallarino). When Becerrillo is infected by smallpox, Villa orders Tiburcio to kill him and burn the corpse. After reluctantly doing his duty, Tiburcio is ordered to leave the army, and returns home.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFrancisco RabalMarga LópezRita MacedoA priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsJosé AlonsoMaría RojoAna Ofelia MurguíaA woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend (Rojo). This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. One day, the mother gets sick and falls into a coma. Her son arrives but she is unconscious. He has a brief but passionate affair with her mother's friend and then disappears, as quickly as he came back from the sea.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsHéctor BonillaManuel OjedaRodolfo Chávez MartínezTwo young schoolboys in a Mexican town cut class to go to a matinee. The boys get involved with a gang of thieves and get caught up in the fun, but once the gang leaves, loyalties shift, leaving the two boys in conflicting positions.
- DirectorMiguel ZacaríasStarsJorge NegreteGloria MarínAndrés SolerMoments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader (Negrete) reads a love letter by his girlfriend (Marín). His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama.
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsMaría FélixDolores Del RíoEmilio FernándezThe Cucaracha is a brave woman soldier who leads a group of similar women into the fray against the forces of the Villa colonel, Zeta.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsLilia PradoCarlos NavarroFernando SotoConfronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin".
- DirectorServando GonzálezStarsJosé Elías MorenoDavid ReynosoJorge Martínez de HoyosA man recently estranged from his wife is in charge of setting a new rail line across the desert in difficult conditions. Things are further complicated when his 'sheltered' son arrives wanting to reconnect.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsDaniel Giménez CachoClaudia RamírezLuis de IcazaA womanizer is falsely diagnosed with AIDS by a jealous lover and falls in love with a woman equally suicidal as he.
- DirectorJosé BohrStarsJosé BohrAnita BlanchCarlos Villatoro
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsManolo FábregasLucha VillaHéctor SuárezA mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsPedro InfanteBlanca Estela PavónMaría Eugenia LlamasThis is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsPedro ArmendárizAnita BlanchRebeca IturbideMarcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroStarsFernando SolerSofía ÁlvarezJoaquín PardavéChucho Flores, a bohemian composer writes a waltz "Carmelita" dedicated to the wife of president Diaz, after listening the waltz the president instructs to Susanito Peñafiel y Somellera seek the composer and to give him a piano as a gratitude token. Susanito finds Chucho, who lives drunk and surrounded by poets, musicians and artists.
- DirectorJuan OrolStarsJuan OrolRosa CarminaJosé PulidoGangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men.
- DirectorMitl ValdezStarsRigoberto CarmonaCarlos Esteban ChávezUriel ChávezDifferent characters and situations taken from the narrative work of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo come together in this film. After arriving in Comala, Juan Preciado stays at the home of a couple of incestuous brothers; Juvencio Nava flees from various men who are pursuing him for the alleged murder, many years ago, of Colonel Guadalupe Terreros; Finally, two brothers-in-law take Natalia's dying husband to Talpa in the hope that the virgin will work a miracle and cure him.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsMaría RojoCarmen SalinasTito VasconcelosJulia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old "Salon Colonia". They've danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia's life forever.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsRosita QuintanaFernando SolerVíctor Manuel MendozaAn unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the members of the household, until they are virtually fighting with each other.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsErnesto AlonsoMiroslavaRita MacedoThe delirious journey of a mentally disordered man, who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsJulio AldamaNorma AngélicaAndrés SolerA man becomes a thief out of desperation. If his identity becomes known, his neighbors might lynch him. The only friendly face in town is the local priest.
- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsColumba DomínguezCrox AlvaradoWolf RuvinskisA wrestler and a detective team up to stop a mad scientist who is kidnapping athletes and replacing their brains with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer.
- DirectorPaul LeducStarsOfelia MedinaJuan José GurrolaMax KerlowThe most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsHéctor BonillaMaría RojoArmando MartínMaria is on a business trip, and during a storm her car cracks up in the middle of the highway. She is picked up by a mental hospital's bus that takes her there but she cannot get out because everyone thinks she is mentally ill.
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsMarco LeonardiLumi CavazosRegina TornéWhen tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
- DirectorJuan IbáñezStarsJulissaEnrique Álvarez FélixÓscar ChávezA rich, aristocratic engaged couple (Julissa, Enrique Alvarez Felix) abandons a dinner party to enjoy a night on the town with an urban gang known as Los Caifanes.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoPina PellicerEnrique LuceroPoor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsSalvador SánchezJosé Carlos RuizManuel OjedaIn Mexico city, the most infamous jail "Lecumberri" three prisoners make a plan to introduce drugs.
- DirectorNicolás EchevarríaStarsJuan DiegoDaniel Giménez CachoRoberto SosaA handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsPedro ArmendárizCarlos López MoctezumaMaría DouglasGarcía Mata, civil servant, arrives to the village to investigate Cardoza's murder, a candidate to the local presidency, enemy of "cacique" Rosauro Castro.
- DirectorArchibaldo BurnsStarsIrene Martínez CadenaKikis Herrera CallesMichel Clemente JacquesThe return of Luisa to the house where she worked as Marta's maid is the trigger for a long confession, in which truth and lies are inseparable. The film confronts, with moderation and subtlety, the closed and welcoming status of a society lady, with the barbarous and primitive thinking of her ex-maid who has visited her for one night, and shows what seemed like an inconsequential encounter. little by little it becomes a ritual of death.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsArturo MezaMarco TreviñoGuadalupe Del ToroRodolfo ( Marco Treviño ) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon ( Arturo Meza ). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, he quickly asks modern and open-mind Olga ( Letícia Lupercio ) to become his wife. Ramon is heart-broken, but Dona Herlinda ( Guadalupe Del Toro ) has the final solution to make everybody happy: She asks Ramon to live with her, near by Rodolfo and Olga. Everybody together forever.
- DirectorCarlos VeloStarsLuis ProcunaConsuelo ProcunaÁngel ProcunaThe life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession.
- DirectorAntonio MorenoStarsLupita TovarCarlos OrellanaJuan José Martínez CasadoWoman turns to prostitution after her beloved soldier leaves her.
- DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsEduardo López RojasMalena DoriaArcelia RamírezOld bachelor Benjamin (Lopez Rojas) still lives with his sister Micaela (Doria) in the boredom of a small town. His only entertainment is getting together with a bunch of old men and spare time playing like children. Benjamin falls inlove with beautiful and young Natividad (Ramirez). First, he writes love letters for her. Then, when this strategy fails, Benjamin and the old men plan to abduct her and wait for her falling inlove.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsArturo de CórdovaLeticia PalmaRamón GayA fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsMaría FélixVíctor JuncoCrox AlvaradoAngela "Doña Diabla" is a beautiful and rude woman who after her divorce swore to hate men. He also forbids the romance of his daughter Angelica with a ruffian named Adrian.
- DirectorAlberto CortésStarsJuan Carlos ColomboEmilio CortésAlonso EchánoveMaria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a prostitute. She frequents bars and saloons, commits some robberies, but neither sex, nor the tequila, can replace love.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesMiguel M. DelgadoStarsMaría FélixJulián SolerMaría Elena MarquésA young lawyer and owner of a great property in the interior of Venezuela tries to recover its control in the name of the law, fighting against his neighbour, a powerful, seductive and misterious lady named Doña Bárbara, learning in the process that the only chance to win is by playing on Doña's rules.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaDelia CasanovaMarta AuraLuz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as Purgatory: it's only one step to reach Heaven.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsFederico LuppiRon PerlmanClaudio BrookA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
- DirectorDana RotbergStarsEvangelina SosaLilia AragónRoberto SosaIn a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.
- DirectorEnrique RosasStarsJoaquín CossJuan de HomsManuel de los RíosA gang terrorize Mexico City's high society in 1915. Murder, kidnapping and robbery are their trademarks. One police inspector (Cabrera) follows the gang's crimes and eventually sends them to jail.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsDavid SilvaVíctor ParraMartha ValdésMexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresStarsGermán ValdésRosita QuintanaNelly MontielTin Tan plays a broke man who is trying to put on a musical to pay his debts.