Álvaro Matute Movies

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

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

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...

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of...

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.

A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man...

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair...

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 Mexican family drama.

A Honduran town decides to form a soccer team for some pranksters.