Best movies like Las Islas Marias
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Las Islas Marias Starring Pedro Infante, Rosaura Revueltas, Rocío Sagaón, Esther Luquín, and more. If you liked Las Islas Marias then you may also like: You the Rich, We the Poor, Over the Waves, Papillon, The Lost City and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
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.
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We the Poor
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
Over the Waves
The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
The Lost City
In a neighborhood a child is hidden at birth to separate him from the one who steals his parents' fortune. Growing up, he seeks revenge and discovers that the same one who stole his parents is the one who has murdered his girlfriend.
No desearás la mujer de tu hijo
An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
Sensuality
Saloon singer Aurora is sentenced to two years in prison for a prostitution conviction. When she gets out of prison, she gets romantically involved with Alejandro Luque, the respected judge who tried her case. Aurora and her boyfriend, el Rizos, plan to blackmail the judge. But Aurora gets a change of heart as she comes to know the judge better.
Monte de piedad
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
La marquesa del barrio
Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.
La mujer del puerto
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
La sonrisa de los pobres
A mechanical marries a young but both lose their jobs and happiness again when they know they are expecting a child.
Crosses Over the Wasteland
After a long journey in search of the murderer of his father, a man abuses a beautiful girl next to marry.
El cachorro
El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.
King of Alcatraz
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
La diosa de Tahití
A fugitive hides from justice among smugglers in the deep jungle of an exotic island, but things become complicated when he falls in love with a local cabaret dancer.
The Promised Land?
Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.
School for Buglars
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
A Place Close to Heaven
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
The Poulterer Hawk
Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
También de dolor se canta
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
The Third Word
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
Viva Mi Desgracia
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
Victims of Sin
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
El diario íntimo de una cabaretera
Martha is a single woman who becomes pregnant and commits suicide after giving birth to a pair of twins, Jessica and Angelica, who are adopted separately. Years later, Angelica becomes a lawyer working for the mafia. Jessica, who was adopted by a prostitute, has become a criminal and is now arrested for the murder of her husband. In prison she tries to be friends with the director without success and she has to pay her sentence.
Por qué peca la mujer
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Angelitos negros
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
La vida no vale nada
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
Pepe El Toro
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
La mentira
A man, torn inside by two passions, falls for the woman against whom he sought revenge, believing her to be responsible for the death of his brother.
The Woman I Lost
A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.
No matarás
A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.
Soledad's Shawl
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
La Jorobada
Little girl with very visible spinal injury is given second-class treatment by her able-bodied family. Years pass...
The Underdogs
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
Santa
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito
Cinnamon Skin
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
De carne somos
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
La mujer que engañamos
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
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.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Las Islas Marias Starring Pedro Infante, Rosaura Revueltas, Rocío Sagaón, Esther Luquín, and more. If you liked Las Islas Marias then you may also like: You the Rich, We the Poor, Over the Waves, Papillon, The Lost City and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
You the Rich
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.