Luis Alcoriza Movies

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

Venice Film Festival 1948

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life...

Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.

Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.

The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help...

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a...

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk...

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to...

Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.

Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.

Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband,...

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in...

Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from...

Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport,...

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...