The best Jorge Lavat’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jorge Lavat’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jorge Lavat.
The Miracle of Marcelino
5.9/10
Marcelino Pan Y Vino (English: "Marcelino Bread And Wine") is a 1955 Spanish film. It was a success, and other countries have produced versions of it. The 1955 film was written by José María Sánchez Silva, who based it on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda. Its stars were Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo (who also starred together as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the 1947 Spanish film version of Cervantes's Don Quixote and the young child star Pablito Calvo (no relation to Juan) as Marcelino. The background score and the film's theme song are by Pablo Sorozábal. The film became the inspiration for the highly praised Philippine drama, May Bukas Pa.The story, revised and modernized in both the book and film, dates back to a medieval legend, one of many gathered together in a volume by Alfonso el Sabio.
The Golden Cockerel
7.3/10
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
The Scapular
7.4/10
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Yesenia
6.4/10
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
El estudiante
7.1/10
After retiring to the beautiful Mexican town of Guanajuato, a 70 year old decides to follow his dreams and enroll at the university where he stumbles upon a new generation and they are bound together by the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha.
Duro pero seguro
7.2/10
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Triángulo
6.4/10
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
La tigresa
5.2/10
Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.
Flor marchita
6.8/10
Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...
Las modelos de desnudos
5.5/10
Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.
Azahares rojos
5/10
Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.
Santo and the Golden Eagle
5.2/10
The rich landowner La Tigresa suffers several attacks and seeks help from Santo. The attacks continue but Santo protects and she falls for him.
La Jorobada
6.7/10
Little girl with very visible spinal injury is given second-class treatment by her able-bodied family. Years pass...
Rosario
6.7/10
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
Las impuras
El aviso inoportuno
7.6/10
The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .
Savage Sunday
7.2/10
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
La marcha de Zacatecas
6.8/10
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.
Besos, besos... y mas besos
Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.
El perdon de la hija de nadie
5.4/10
While she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls ill with a movie disease that leaves her amnesiac afterwards. Then she falls in with a band of gypsies. And... (Sequel to La Hija De Nadie.)
