Manuel Barbachano Ponce Movies

In a indeterminate future, Mexico would be a part of USA. In this context, the protagonist live under political and sexual repression.

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

Luisa returns to her village, where she cares for her uncle on his deathbed, who tells her the story of his life with a hidden purpose.

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but...

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this...

A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she...

Collection of comedy sketches and blackout gags edited into feature-length movie. Laugh-In style.

Four stories: The encounter between a soldier and a widow in a cemetery. A woman arrives as a maid in an unknown city where she discovers love....

Sketch comedy and blackout gags -- format like Laugh-In. Number two in a series.

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.

A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by...

Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless,...

Short-attention-span sketch comedy and black-out gags, assembled into a movie. Structured like TV show "Laugh-In". First of three in series.

This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a...

A soldier is assigned to guard the body of a man who was shot. During the night, he encounters a widow who is watching over the burial of her...

Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow),...

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.

While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international...

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...