The best Fernando Fernández’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Fernando Fernández’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Fernando Fernández.
Enamorada
7.7/10
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Mi campeón
5.5/10
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Río Escondido
7.5/10
Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.
Frontera norte
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Cabellera blanca
5.5/10
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
Magdalena
Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.
Arrabalera
5.7/10
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Pasionaria
6.2/10
Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.
Escuadrón 201
7.4/10
Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits.
Pachín
One Day of Life
8/10
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
Amor vendido
6.4/10
Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Marina
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
La feria de las flores
5.8/10
Ranchera melodrama/romance.
The Treasure of the Indian
6.1/10
Callejera
5.7/10
Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
Si fuera una cualquiera
Ferias de México
5/10
Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.
As negro
6.7/10
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
Passion Island
5.8/10
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.
