Roberto Gavaldón Movies

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...

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she...

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse...

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers....

An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia.

Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been...

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

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...

Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?

This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in...

Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go...

Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.

Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone...

Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon...

The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind...

Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.

A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of...