Best movies like Paco, el elegante
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Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
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Reckless Disregard
Meredith Craig is lawyer who has a small practice. She is then approached by a Dr. Lucas who is a doctor at a clinic, who was exposed on a television news program as writing prescriptions for drugs in exchange for money. He says that he is innocent and asks Meredith to file a lawsuit against the program and its staff. Can a small lawyer beat a big television network?
The Spirit's Canyon
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.
Cabaret Shanghai
Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.
Casa De Mi Padre
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
Extreme Justice
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.
Tearing Through
Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
Another Dawn
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Headline Hunters
A rookie reporter in pursuit of an expose gets tangled up with big-time mobsters.
Angel in the Night
A respectable family is shot by a gang brutally together. Only the mother survives the perfidious raid. They, although psychiatrist, finds the way back only laboriously in the everyday life. However, then you play the chance one of the members of a gang in the hands. A young fellow which does not finish on his part the recollections and takes up unsuspectingly the help of the doctor. This recognizes immediately that the illustrated case is more own to her. Now the woman knows only one: Revenge. Under drugs her patient reveals details and names. As a result through various tricks and in varying disguising she approaches to the single members of a gang. It begins a hunt on life and death...
El hombre de la ametralladora
Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
I Am The Law
The criminal is hungry for revenge and bloody reprisal to the girl who sent him to jail.
Malarek
Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the Montreal Star. After witnessing a cop murder a street kid, Malarek dedicates himself to exposing corruption in the social welfare system.
Kid Tabaco
Tony Ray is not enough to impress Diana thus decides to become a boxer. At last he can have it all: money and feel worthy enough to propose.
The Promised Land?
Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.
Salon Mexico
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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.
The Adventuress
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
The Naked City
A gritty tale of survival set against a city ripe with violence and corruption. The Naked City tells the tale of Alfonso and Aurelia, who with their infant daughter flee the scene of a traffic accident they inadvertently caused, leaving several people seriously injured. On the run, they check into a hotel in a different part of the town. By coincidence, or fate, the hotel is about to be attacked by a violent gang, who resume to hold everyone hostage, moving room to room raping, killing and brutalizing the guests. When it is turn to visit with the young couple it is their time to decide to succumb to the violence, or fight back.
Reto a la vida
Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Carlos starts working to cure his brother when he befriends a street kid and falls for social worker Elena.
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.
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.
Never Die Alone
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.