Álvaro Matute Movies

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for...

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work...

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself...

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk...

Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon...

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to...

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many...

Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.

A cabaret dancer helps an injured man, and the two fall in love, unaware that together they will face a tragedy.

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him...

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

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally...

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is...

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...