Pancho Villa Returns

La noche del pecado

La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Novara and produced by Contreras Torres in 1933.

Juarez and Maximilian

The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.

¡Viva la soldadera!

Simón Bolívar

Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.

El hijo de nadie

The Useless Life of Pito Perez

Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.

The Black Legend of Mexican Cinema

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built throughout the country upon crime and corruption. Ever since, Uncle Miguel was ridiculed and eventually forgotten, but it is certain that his proclaim announced the separation of Mexican cinema and its audience. Discoveries may be found in the films made by Miguel, and bringing back to life these moving pictures might recover this history that was never told, a story that is almost lost and that Contreras Torres himself tried to pass on through his writings in The Black Book of Mexican Cinema.

Pancho Villa vuelve

Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.

El hombre sin patria

Directed by Miguel Contreras Torres.

Rancho de mis recuerdos

Under the Sky of Spain

Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres.

No matarás

Antonio Guerra is an unemployed Spanish immigrant in the USA. His brother and mother in Spain haven't heard about him for many years or even receive a letter. But one day, his brother receives a letter from him, telling that things are going well. But the reality is other. Antonio is passing a hard time in New Yor City, suffering the Years of Depression as many out of workers. One day, Antonio meets a nice Cuban seller, who invites him to eat at his poor house. The seller advices Antonio to visit a man, who has contacts and could help him to find a job. Nevertheless, Antonio is send with the leader of a group of gangsters, dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcohol. Antonio is offered a work of dealer, but he won't do anything out of the law.

No te engañes corazón

No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.

Mary Magdalene, Sinner of Magdala

The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.

Shadow of Pancho Villa

A 1933 film.

Bartolo toca la flauta

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.

Villa Rides

Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté