Las figuras de arena

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote recalls some of the adventures they've shared.

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.

Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.

It tells the story of a boy from an orphanage, raised in a convent, who saves a young woman who supports the institution from being gored by a bull, and later leaves the convent to follow the girl he had helped and to become a bullfighter.

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.

Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.

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.

Third and last film in the trilogy about Heraclio Bernal. Heraclio continues his fight against the Federales in the Juarista era.

Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help.

Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.