Movies: Yolanda Montes 'Tongolele'

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor....

The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local law officials generally turn a blind eye to this death cult's bizarre activities. Captain Labesch arri...

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show....

Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind....

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Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy....

"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Sim­ple­men­te, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the grea­test com­de­dian-​ac­tors in the his­tory of Me­xi­can Ci­ne­ma. He be­gan his film ca­reer du­ring the early years of what be­ca­me the Gol­den Age of Me­xi­can Ci­ne­ma. ...

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery....

Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897–1988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz whose career spanned half a century and nearly 60 films. Abe...

The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring....

Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain....

Venice Film Festival 1948...

Lurid crime drama about drug traffic....

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Mexican feature film...

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all....

Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer....

Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawing attention to the pachuco movement through his character Tin Tan, laying the groundwork for a new form of binational and mass linguistic expression:...

Mexican feature film...

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