Carlos Villatoro
2021
Dos monjes
Juan Bustillo Oro
Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
Two Monks
El Fantasma del Convento
Fernando de Fuentes
Enrique del Campo, Marta Roel
Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.
The Phantom of the Convent
El tren fantasma
Gabriel García Moreno
Carlos Sánchez Alducín, Rafael Araiza
This action-packed thriller, which translates to “Ghost Train,” is about a railroad engineer who investigates a robbery spree, and falls for the stationmaster’s daughter. Director García Moreno received the full cooperation of the National Railroad in the making of the film, and it still stands today as a document of the great technological advances made in Mexico during the 1920s.
The Phantom Train
No te engañes corazón
Miguel Contreras Torres
Carlos Orellana, Sara García
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
No te engañes corazón
