Manuel Arvide Movies

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated...

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

"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?

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...

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French...

A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.

This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love...

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself...

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.

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

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

Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.

A property owner dies from shock after his opponent tricks him into thinking his land was legally seized.

Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human...

The plot revolves around Pancho Domínguez, alias “El Charro del Arrabal” (José Pulido), a former cattle rustler turned...

After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.

Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse...

An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire.

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...