Roberto Gavaldón Movies

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,...

Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.

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

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

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...

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 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...

During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is...

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she...

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who...

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

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

Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.

Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.

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 man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

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...

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...

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

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers....