Destaques de 1951
Os Destaques de 1951
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- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsArturo de CórdovaLeticia PalmaRamón GayA fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsDolores Del RíoJorge MistralJosé BavieraDeseada, a woman living in the modern city of Chichen Itza, tries to assuage her sister's dread of her betrothal to a Spaniard she doesn't really know. However, when he arrives in the city, he and Deseada fall in love before he has a chance to meet his bride-to-be.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsDolores Del RíoEsther FernándezCarlos NavarroLiterary adaptation: In the late 19th century a society lady takes pride in being a good Christian while she burns books she disapproves of, and arranges to have her daughter's lover whom she also disapproves of, executed.
- DirectorFernando SolerZacarías Gómez UrquizaStarsFernando SolerRosario GranadosGustavo RojoAn old actor decides to help a girl who aspires to become a star and ends up falling in love with her.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsRoberto CañedoLilia PradoCarlos López MoctezumaAn adaptation of Fiodor's Dostoievsky novel Crime and Punishment set in the XX Century Mexico. Ramón Bernal is a poor student in Mexico City that has abandoned his career when he receives a letter informing him that his sister will marry a rich man. Thinking she will marry for money instead of love and feeling guilty about this he murders an old usurer to steal her money. With feelings of guilt he gets severely ill while his friend and family don't suspect he got anything to do with the murder, but as the murder investigation moves along inspector Porfirio Marín suspects about the student. Ramón also meets Sonia, a prostitute, and fells in love with her, the girl will teach her about regret and atonement.
- DirectorMatilde LandetaStarsMiroslavaErnesto AlonsoElda PeraltaLife is hard for a humble young woman, who arrives in the capital, and is forced to prostitute herself against her will.
- DirectorJulio BrachoStarsArturo de CórdovaIrasema DiliánMaría DouglasA troubled man returns home to find the woman he loves struck with memory loss on the eve of her wedding to another man. He attempts to help her regain her memory but at what cost?
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsMarga LópezRita MontanerRoberto Cañedo
- DirectorMiguel M. DelgadoStarsMiroslavaSara MontielKaty JuradoEvangelina asesina a su amante Alberto. En prisión ella conoce a Dora, la novia de Alberto, quien fue privada de su libertad por los negocios ilicitos de él. Una interesante historia esta a punto de tejerse.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroStarsDavid SilvaMeche BarbaAndrés SolerVarious individuals in a neighborhood have extramarital affairs, which trigger rumors and gossip among the families.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsNinón SevillaTito JuncoRodolfo AcostaIn México City, a Cuban dancer from "Cabaret Changó" rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way.
- DirectorAgustín P. DelgadoStarsSara GarcíaDomingo SolerJaime Jiménez PonsThree kids forge a great friendship together, helped with a sweet elder, Doña Domingo. They survive poverty and migration, however the destiny will make a bad move playing with the little Toño.
- DirectorCarlos Véjar hijoStarsJorge MistralEmilia GuiúArmando CalvoAn all star cast is featured in several vignettes about what motivates people to pawn their valuable items for ready cash at "Monte de piedad", Mexico City's top pawn shop.
- DirectorMiguel ZacaríasStarsZully MorenoPedro ArmendárizLuis AldásA poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsLeticia PalmaManolo FábregasCarmen MontejoFive women work together as prostitutes in an elegant cabaret near by the seashore. They're all exploited by cruel Willy (Fábregas), a suave conman who has stolen the club from the always-drunk don Ángel (Soler). Things change when a sailor (the long-lost son of don Ángel) arrives and fights Willy.
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaStarsMarga LópezAlicia CaroRosaura RevueltasIrasema Dilián stars as the orphan Manuela whose passionate crush on her teacher Lucila (Marga Lopez) scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school. An exceptional Mexican remake of the 1931 German original, Maedchen in Uniform.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsRosita QuintanaFernando SolerVíctor Manuel MendozaAn unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the members of the household, until they are virtually fighting with each other.