Enrique del Castillo

Susana

The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.

The Exterminating Angel

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

The Crazy Virgins

Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.

El carita

Door-to-door salesman of beauty products gets involved in comical misadventures and riotous high jinks. Also throwing buckets of water and handfuls of colored goop.

El bombero atómico

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 in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

Simon of the Desert

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter

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, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.

La mujer del puerto

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

Rosauro Castro

Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.

The Soft One

Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even when it causes pain to his devoted aging mother and his beautiful neighbor Lupita, who resists his overtures in the hopes he can learn to settle down and behave. When Lupita gains a steady and honest suitor in Carlos, El Suavecito can't resist trying to foul his chances with the help of the unscrupulous gambler "El Nene"--but it all goes badly wrong. This neglected noir asks whether a morally impoverished gangster is capable of redemption.

Camelia

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Frontera norte

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

The Possession

Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.

El diablo no es tan diablo

A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to claim their souls in exchange.

Orquídeas para mi esposa

Passionate

Returning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.

El rencor de la tierra

A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.

Píntame angelitos blancos

Orphaned by a father and children by a black mother, the little one is rejected by his grandmother, while the girl must deny her own mother.

Entre tu amor y el cielo