Movies: María Luisa Zea

Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variat...

A 1941 Mexican film....

It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the ...

A 1942 film....

Romantic triangle on the hacienda....

Ghost horror-comedy....

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons....

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This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo....

Ranchera melodrama/romance....

The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota....

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as myster...

Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon....

Mexican feature film...

Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man....

1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls....

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Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats....

Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators....

The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and......