Roberto Gavaldón Movies

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...

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to...

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...

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions,...

A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.

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...

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

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows...

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...

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.

Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.

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...

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three...

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...

Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college to set things aright... or does he have other...

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the...

Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent...

A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho...