José Chávez Movies

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Raange war between two feuding ranch families in the 1930s.

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.

When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the...

Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.

Story about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his...

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt,...

Thousands of peasants are kidnapped by the mafia and are forced to work in marijuana fields. Facing violence, death, & desperately fighting for their...

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still...

A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a...

Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.

Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.

Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.

Obscure Mexican film.

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama,...