Lucha Villa Movies
- 2003
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When a father and son fall in love with the same woman, they must choose between love and family loyalty in this tense family drama starring Flavio Peniche and Agustin Bernal. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1993
Long ago, Pilar Landeros ran away from her husband and child and changed her name so that she could have a career as a singer. Now, she is rich and famous. Not everyone has forgotten her past, as she discovers when the new maid she has hired turns out to be her angry and vengeful daughter. In this psychological drama, the two are forced to come to terms with one another as more and more dark secrets from the past come home to roost. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lucha Villa, María Rojo, (more)
Misa de Cuerpo Presente concerns the mother of a murdered young man who takes up her son's weapon in order to get revenge on the bad guy responsible for his death. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
The generally hopeless lot of Mexico's poor is closely examined in this tragic melodrama. In the story, Lolo is a seventeen-year old man with a job at a foundry. The foundry job doesn't pay much, but it's something. However, when he is robbed and beaten so badly that he must go to the hospital, the foundry fires him for his absence. When he gets home, he is scolded by his mother for "taking it easy" at the hospital. Despite having the normal urges of a young man for love and family, his situation goes from bad to worse, and one day he loses his temper in a disastrous way. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lucha Villa, Roberto Sosa, (more)
- 1992
Gerónimo is justifiably proud of his accomplishments, since he has recently far surpassed his own father in the acquisition of wealth and security. In fact, he is soon to be given a government-financed home. Not only that, but his son has followed in his footsteps as a government bureaucrat. He has recently been awarded a medal by his grateful government, and his cup is filled to overflowing. Or so he imagines, until one day he discovers that his entire department is being disbanded and everyone in it laid off. Soon after that, he is a man without a job, without status. Even his attempts to protest the department closing take place at the wrong time and place. His family tries to pull together to save their house, but their prospects don't look good. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sergio "El Comanche" Ramos, Lucha Villa, (more)
- 1988
- R
If your idea of a "bus picture" is It Happened One Night, the Spanish Bus Station will prove quite an eye-opener. There's the usual cross-section of passengers, all strangers at first, friends afterward. And there are quite a few amazing adventures en route, some of them hair-raising. The main drawing card of the story is sex--sex performed on and off the road by the temporary denizens of the bus station and bus. No "walls of Jericho" in this one. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
Following on the heels of its popular 1983 precursor, this second installment of "El Milusos" continues the Sad Sack character of the widowed Transito (Hector Suarez) and his losing misadventures in the low-end job market. "El Milusos" is Transito's nickname, meaning a "Jack-of-all-trades" because he tries his hand at anything to get ahead. He leaves his young son and his farm behind him to seek his fortune in a large, run-down barrio of Mexico City where he does everything from selling tacos, to waiting tables, to boxing, and he even tries a stint as an illegal alien in the U.S. His karma is such that he misses out on the breaks that happen to others, yet he does so with a comic style and innocence that can be admired. Although the storyline is uneven and not above lecturing at times, the misadventures of Transito are laced with a steady dose of humor that should entertain most audiences.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Héctor Suárez, Roberto "Flaco" Guzman, (more)
The 97-minute Mexican drama Del Otro Lado Del Puente stars Juan Gabriel, Julio Aleman, Valentin Trujillo and Lucha Villa. The story concerns a Mexican who is attracted by stories of unlimited opportunities in the US. Once he has arrived in the Promised Land, reality slowly sinks in. Down but not out, the hero is determined to succeed in America, on the Americans' terms. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Juan Gabriel
In a Mexican village, the local whorehouse is run by an elderly transvestite man and his daughter. One of the house's regular customers is a truck driver with a violent turn of mind. One day, he loses control entirely. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lucha Villa, Ana Martin, (more)
During the birth of a child, an old soothsayer breaks a bottle containing evil omens and all the curses which famously come from witches' mouths afflict the community. The village swiftly disintegrates, and, eventually, most agree that they must move away from the ill-fated place. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
The humor in this Mexican social comedy has more to do with the aptly depicted characters shown than with the story. When Enfermio (Manolo Faregas) takes his family on an outing, he encounters every possible calamity. A group of unconnected lotharios almost romance his wife and his daughter away from him, he encounters a military man who is a little too ready to draw his gun at the slightest provocation, and his mother manages to eat herself to death. This last event leads to a macabre drive through town, as he takes his family, including the propped-up corpse of his mother, back home. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Manolo Fábregas, Lucha Villa, (more)
- 1973
Mexico City offers a poor woman a life as a street merchant. ~ All Movie Guide
When a poor commoner falls for the beautiful daughter of a powerful millionaire, he finds that in order to win her heart he must first outsmart a jealous aristocrat in a romantic tale of true love and class conflicts starring Susana Dosamantes and Lucha Villa. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1965
An innocent convict that is released after ten years seeks revenge on the people that set him up. ~ All Movie Guide
