Luis Alcoriza Movies

In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a...

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

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a...

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.

Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot.

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In...

Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people....

Petra and Matías have been unhappily married for twenty years. When Matías falls in love with shop assistant Angelines, he comes up...

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.

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...

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house....

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

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

A group of veteran boxers find a young potential champion to train.

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