Mala yerba

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.

Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.

In Paris in 1905, Madame Lou runs a brothel with five employees. The six women take in a boy who had become an orphan on Christmas Eve. Under the care of women, the boy becomes a righteous young man. On Christmas Eve 1925, he returns to the Women's House and has dinner with them. They have now become righteous women and tell the man their life stories.

Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unpleasant way of helping them do this.

A humble cabinetmaker steals from the rich to give the poor in revenge for ruining their love with a rich young woman.

Two train drivers find a little girl who escaped from a circus due to mistreatment and one of them decides to adopt her.

'Ora Ponciano stars Chucho Solorzano as the eponymous hero. Set in 19th-century Mexico, the story deals with a celebrated matador named Ponciano, as skillful with the senoritas as with the toros. Special attention is lavished upon the romance between the bullfighter and the fair Rosario (Consuela Frank). Much of the film is given over to authentic re-creations of various folk festivals and dances, with the extras colorfully (and accurately) costumed for the occasion. The fact that the bullfighting sequences are not excessively brutal is an indication that the producers of 'Ora Ponciano hoped to release the film in the U.S.