Topic: Mexican Revolution

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Anthony Quinn · Jean Peters · Joseph Wiseman

Plot Emiliano Zapata is a Mexican peon whose tribal land is stolen under the corrupt administration of Porfirio Díaz. Seeking justice, he and his fellow villagers join the revolutionaries under Madero....

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Burt Lancaster · Lee Marvin · Robert Ryan · Jack Palance

Plot Wealthy J.W. Grant hires Henry Fardan, Jake Sharp, Hans Ehrengard, and Bill Dolworth, each a specialist in his own field, to go into Mexico to bring back his wife, who...

Direction Juan Bustillo Oro · Fernando de Fuentes

Cast Alfredo del Diestro · Carmen Guerrero · Antonio R. Frausto · Luis G. Barreiro

Direction Emilio Fernández

Cast María Félix · Pedro Armendáriz · Fernando Fernández · José Morcillo

Plot In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general (Armendáriz) and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls...

Direction Francesco Taboada Tabone

Cast Marcelino Anrubio · Audiaz Anzures · Captain Manuel Corona · Matías Cruz Corridista

Plot In the year 2000 the Mexican film director, Francesco Taboada Tabone, began his search for the last of the soldiers to have fought beside General Emiliano Zapata in the 1910...

Direction Fernando de Fuentes

Cast Antonio R. Frausto · Domingo Soler · Manuel Tamés · Ramón Vallarino

Plot The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in...

Direction Raymundo Gleyzer

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Gary Cooper · Burt Lancaster · Denise Darcel · Sara Montiel

Plot During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast James Coburn · Rod Steiger · Romolo Valli · Maria Monti

Plot An IRA explosives expert on the run in Mexico meets an amoral Mexican bandit; together they get drawn into the Mexican revolution.

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Carlos Agostí · Pedro Armendáriz · María Félix · Sara Guasch

Plot This classic from Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón is a harrowing drama about the Mexican Revolution. Based on the novel by Miguel N. Lira, LA ESCONDIDA is an unflinching look at...

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Franco Nero · Jack Palance · Tony Musante · Giovanna Ralli

Plot While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for...

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Franco Nero · Tomas Milian · Jack Palance · Fernando Rey

Plot Arms dealer Yodlaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner...

Direction Ismael Rodríguez

Cast María Félix · Dolores del Rio · Emilio Fernández · Antonio Aguilar

Direction Rafael Lara

Cast Jorge A. Jimenez · Pablo Abitia · Armando Hernández · Gabriela Cartol

Direction Ignacio Ortiz

Cast Arturo Ríos · Luisa Huertas · Ana Graham · Dagoberto Gama

Plot An award winning film from Mexico traces one family from the era of Emperor Maximilian to the present day. Follow the legacy of a boy who dares to stare into...

Direction Felipe Cazals

Cast Antonio Aguilar · Mario Almada · Gregorio Casal · Mario Casillas

Plot Emiliano Zapata was a peasant who understood the ideals of the working class. He became a figurehead of the revolutionary uprising in Mexico and his life as a leader, his...

Direction Paul Leduc

Cast Claudio Obregon · Eduardo López Rojas · Ernesto Gómez Cruz · Juan Ángel Martínez

Plot A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Robert Mitchum · Gilbert Roland · Zachary Scott · Ursula Thiess

Plot American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and...

Direction Jack Conway · Howard Hawks · William A. Wellman

Cast Wallace Beery · Leo Carrillo · Fay Wray · Donald Cook

Plot A gutsy action-drama about the career of a Mexican rebel. In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's...

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Klaus Kinski · Martine Beswick · Lou Castel

Plot El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to...