Movies: Víctor Parra

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventu...

In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue....

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official....

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo....

Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer....

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

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in t...

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Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish....

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974...

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal....

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve....

Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man....

One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households....

Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly....

Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even when it causes pain to his devoted aging mother and his beautiful neighbor Lupita, who resists his o...

This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the...

After a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase....

A Mexican family drama....

Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series....