Manuel Dondé Movies

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

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...

Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting...

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

Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even...

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

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...

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

An innocent love withers when a terrible truth is uncovered.

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

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

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

Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the...

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

A single, hard-working, girl looks to improve her situation by becoming a "kept woman". In doing so, she turns away from church and family, thereby...

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

When the U.S. invasion and the landing of troops in 1847 begins, the former cadet Miguel de la Peña (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Agustin...

A film that tells how a woman who suffered blackmail her entire life kills a man. Her lawyer falls in love with her and does everything possible to...

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...

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