Jorge Arriaga Movies

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.

Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is...

A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but...

Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.

A dangerous gangster, called Álvaro Rambal, is captured by the police. Hoping to be forgiven before his execution, he tells the story of his...

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

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for...

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...

Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty...

When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.

Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.

In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past...

Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.

A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.