Movies: José Alfredo Jiménez

Inspired by an exclusive interview and performance footage of Chavela Vargas shot in 1991 and guided by her unique voice, the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being....

All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies....

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 involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan....

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements....

A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution....

Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character....

Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against t...

A new recruit rises through the ranks of Pancho Villa's army as his leadership skills become apparent....

Six grown-up daughers need husbands. Is big problem for El amapolo....

The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio....

Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings....

A retired police officer looks for revenge after his family is attacked by a gang of criminals....

Lucha Vazquez, a beautiful and wealthy young woman seems pursued by bad luck. She has had two boyfriends who died at the announcement of the wedding. Manuel, a young man from the same town is in love with Lucha, but she fears that if he falls in love...

Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama....

A mechanical marries a young but both lose their jobs and happiness again when they know they are expecting a child....

Unscrupulous promoter creates hostilities that ruin the friendships between six young musicians....

Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise....

Wealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic attention of a woman who lives down the road....

In the "Marquesa boarding house" lives a group of eclectic artists. They're trying to mount an spectacle to earn some money and pay their debt with the owner. At the same time arrives at the house a young car driver with a great voice, and a pretty m...

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman....