Películas de Carmen Montejo

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

Mimí Derba is a documentary about one of the pioneers in acting and film production in México. In 1917, along with photographer Enrique...

Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo.

When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping...

A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear...

The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his...

A jockey is pushed by his former trainer, in order to win one last race after his downfall into alcohol and depression.

In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken...

Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests...

During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up...

Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.

Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.

The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush...

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse...

A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.

Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.

Love story and family-melodrama set during the Mexican War Of Independence, 1860s.

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.

The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind...

The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes

Many stories of families within an urban complex.

The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, USA and Spain), invited to Mexico City to...

Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband,...

A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.

For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a...

Doctor-husband-father tries to juggle home life and mistress.

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

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...

Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing.

A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.

Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on...

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

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.

Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.

'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their...

A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.

Horror tv movie from Mexico

Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with.

Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty...

This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love...

Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.

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...

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

Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.

Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.

Mr. X is convicted of killing Mr. Y and serves a jail sentence. After being released, he discovers that Mr. Y is still alive...

An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.

Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off...

Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night...

Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son...

In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted...

A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.

Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior...

Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind....

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written...

A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local...

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

The film tells the intense countdown of a man sentenced to death.

A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.

(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.

A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.

Luz en el páramo is a 1953 Venezuelan film directed by Víctor Urruchúa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.