Manuel Barbachano Ponce Movies

After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this...

This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a...

While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international...

A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she...

A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by...

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...

Sketch comedy and blackout gags -- format like Laugh-In. Number two in a series.

Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow),...

Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but...

Short-attention-span sketch comedy and black-out gags, assembled into a movie. Structured like TV show "Laugh-In". First of three in series.

A film that brings together several stories around love and important personalities (directors, actors, screenwriters, production team), in addition...

In a indeterminate future, Mexico would be a part of USA. In this context, the protagonist live under political and sexual repression.

The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the...

Collection of comedy sketches and blackout gags edited into feature-length movie. Laugh-In style.