Ricardo Avendaño Movies

With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is...

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love....

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In...

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

After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her...

Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated...

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 farmer is in love during revolutionary times.

A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.

Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.

Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death!...

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"

Journalist Luis Navarro is assigned to cover the sinking of several ships, but his investigation takes an unexpected turn after meeting Miss...

Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet...

In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his...

16th century swashbuckler in the 'musketeers' vein.

Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.

A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover...

Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.