The best Pancho Córdova’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Pancho Córdova’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 Pancho Córdova.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8/10
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all.
The Exterminating Angel
8/10
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
Rage
6.3/10
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
The Wrath of God
6/10
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
Tlayucan
7.3/10
A man becomes a thief out of desperation. If his identity becomes known, his neighbours might lynch him. The only friendly face in town is the local priest.
National Mechanics
7.4/10
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
El gángster
6.2/10
Aging gangsters want to retire, but going straight poses new problems. Can they adapt?
La presidenta municipal
7.1/10
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
Apolinar
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
My Son, the Hero
7.9/10
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
El águila descalza
6.8/10
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
The Boy and the Star
8.4/10
Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '
Aquellos años
6.4/10
Historical drama: Benito Juarez and the years of he Franco-Mexican war, 1850s-1860s.
El rediezcubrimiento de México
5.5/10
Acto de posesión
4.8/10
Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child.
El rincón de las vírgenes
7.2/10
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos)
7.3/10
Raul (Igancio Lopez Tarso) is a white man who enjoys the simple way of life practiced by the Indians of Mexico. He does his best to try and help the tribe, but he becomes a victim of greedy land grabbers who covet the tribal property. Jaime Fernandez and Aurora Clavel play the Indians. The feature, written and directed by Luis Alcoriza, appeared at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
Suerte te dé Dios
7.3/10
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
History of a Scoundrel
6.7/10
After the death of her boyfriend, Lina Torres starts a fashion business to get ahead. When she meets Julio, the fabric seller, she lets herself be seduced by him and becomes his lover. Eventually Lina liquidates the business and gives Julio the money to expand his business. In this way, she thinks, they will live better after they are married. When the wedding day arrives, Julio does not appear. Given the steps he has taken, she is in a very precarious situation. Later, Lina runs into Julio, who gives her all kinds of excuses and offers to pay the debt he owes her. The check has no funds. Tired of so much deception, she ends up committing an impulsive act that makes Lina face a jury, where she will be defended by the attorney Antonio Aguirre.
La risa de la ciudad
7.8/10
Romanticized, glamored-up neorealism, life in a squatter's-rights shantytown.
