The best Julio Villarreal’s drama movies

Julio Villarreal

Julio Villarreal

07/12/1885- 04/08/1958
Today we present the best Julio Villarreal’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Julio Villarreal’s movies.
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La malquerida

La malquerida
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/09/1949
  • Character: Don Eusebio
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.

Plunder of the Sun

Plunder of the Sun
6.4/10
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.

Gran Casino

Gran Casino
5.8/10
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

Bugambilia

Bugambilia
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/11/1945
  • Character: Don Fernando
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.

The Torch

The Torch
5.4/10
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.

Twilight

Twilight
7/10
Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.

La Devoradora

La Devoradora
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/04/1946
  • Character: Don Adolfo Gil
A Mexican film noir revolving around a crime: the suicide of one of Diana (María Félix)'s lovers and the disposal of his body in order to avoid a scandal. Diana not only engineers the entire scheme, but drafts her two other suitors: her fiance Adolfo (Julio Villareal) and his nephew Miguel (Luis Aldas).

Reportaje

Reportaje
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/11/1953
  • Character: Surgeon
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve. .

Doña Perfecta

Doña Perfecta
7.3/10
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Night Falls

Night Falls
7.1/10
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.

Las Islas Marias

Las Islas Marias
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/08/1951
  • Character: Rector escuela militar
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.

Vertigo

Vertigo
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/09/1945
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.

La faraona

La faraona
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 10/12/1956
  • Character: Don Guillermo Prim Altamira
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.

Lluvia roja

Lluvia roja
6.3/10
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.

A Woman Without Love

A Woman Without Love
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/07/1952
  • Character: Don Carlos Montero
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

Tierra baja

Tierra baja
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/02/1951
  • Character: Don Tomás
A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.

Corazón salvaje

Corazón salvaje
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/06/1956
  • Character: Francisco D'Autremont
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.

Take Me in Your Arms

Take Me in Your Arms
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/04/1954
  • Character: Don Antonio
Fishing-village girl sacrifices her reputation to the local banker to protect her family; fron there, she follows the path of least resistance, but she never forgets the fiance she left behind...

Pepita Jimenez

Pepita Jimenez
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/02/1946
  • Character: Tío cura
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.

La ley del harem

La ley del harem
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/10/1931
  • Character: Hassan

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