Álvaro Matute Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.

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...

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

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 Mexican family drama.

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

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

Four scientists live a series of paranormal events. Their only track is a message that would lead them to a place called Ciudad Blanca.

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...