María Gentil Arcos Movies

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.

Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to...

Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.

Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.

A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and...

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.

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

Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded...

Two small-town hell-raisers get so out of hand the authorities have to step in to rein them in.

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!...

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.

Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.

When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create...

Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His...