The best René Cardona’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best René Cardona’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 René Cardona.
Juana Gallo
6.9/10
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Mala yerba
6/10
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Verano salvaje
6.5/10
The legend of their beach days, plus nights of sex.
Jesús, el niño Dios
6.9/10
Soledad
7.1/10
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
La Bandida
6.3/10
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
The Spirit's Canyon
7.7/10
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
Don Juan Tenorio
5.8/10
Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
Crónica roja
6.4/10
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
La faraona
6.2/10
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.
The Children of Sanchez
6.1/10
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
El secreto del sacerdote
6.8/10
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
El valle de los miserables
5.8/10
Allá en el Rancho Grande
6.8/10
Zindy, the Swamp Boy
2.1/10
The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson
Mulata
6.2/10
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
El conde de Montecristo
6.8/10
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Nuevo amanecer
Mexican feature film
La casta divina
7/10
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
La casa del rencor
A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
