Viva la revolucion! (Mexican Revolution in films)
The Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución mexicana), was a major war, lasting roughly from 1910 to 1920.
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Una pasión me domina
Y es la que me hizo venir
Valentina, Valentina
Yo te quisiera decir
Valentina, Valentina
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Que me maten de una vez
La Valentina
Una pasión me domina
Y es la que me hizo venir
Valentina, Valentina
Yo te quisiera decir
Valentina, Valentina
Rendido estoy a tus pies
Si me han de matar mañana
Que me maten de una vez
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- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoJean PetersAnthony QuinnThe story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroFernando de FuentesStarsAlfredo del DiestroCarmen GuerreroAntonio R. FraustoDuring Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend of his guests. Eventually, the situation becomes unsustainable and he has to take sides. Betrayal and deception overcome and Mendoza's dark side surfaces.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsYul BrynnerRobert MitchumMaria Grazia BuccellaMexican rebel Pancho Villa leads a revolution helped by an American aviator imprisoned in Mexico.
- DirectorGonzalo Martínez OrtegaStarsLucha VillaNarciso BusquetsAndrés GarcíaA man returns from Paris to find his home of Chihuahua Mexico occupied by Francisco Villa's revolutionary troops.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixPedro ArmendárizFernando FernándezDuring the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
- DirectorPaul LeducStarsClaudio ObregónEduardo López RojasErnesto Gómez CruzA 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.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroTony MusanteFranco GiacobiniA greedy Polish mercenary helps a mine worker and a peasant girl lead a revolution against the Mexican Government, all while being pursued by an American rival.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsAntonio R. FraustoDomingo SolerManuel TamésThe 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 their community by assisting in the struggle. After several battles and valiant heroics, the original group is eventually reduced to the leader Tiburcio Maya (Frausto) and young Becerrillo (Vallarino). When Becerrillo is infected by smallpox, Villa orders Tiburcio to kill him and burn the corpse. After reluctantly doing his duty, Tiburcio is ordered to leave the army, and returns home.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsDolores Del RíoPedro ArmendárizEmilio FernándezOne of the gratest love stories ever told!!
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsAntonio AguilarArmando AcostaDavid AlejandroEmiliano 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 wife and the battles of those who fight alongside him are portrayed. He lead an ongoing battle to redistribute lands to the peasants and fought against the powerful and oppressing regime of Porfirio Diaz.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsJorge NegreteGloria MarínCrox AlvaradoDirector Chano Urueta is inspired by the classic Pancho Villa to narrate in musical style the romance between a privileged rich girl (Gloria Martin) and a revolutionary scoundrel (Jorge Negrete).
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsPedro ArmendárizElsa AguirreCarlos López MoctezumaOne of the films in the series of seven tales that tell, in a funny sort of way, different stories lived by Pancho Villa and several characters from the small town, this time a priest, a butcher, high society people, revolution fighters and children.
- DirectorRogelio A. GonzálezStarsMaría FélixEulalio GonzálezJosé Elías MorenoA smuggler is ordered to abduct a beautiful revolutionary woman for a federal captain.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsAlfredo del DiestroLuis G. BarreiroAdela SequeyroEl Prisionero 13 (Prisoner 13) is part of the trilogy of films made by Fernando Fuentes concerning the Mexican Revolution. The film centers on the drunkard Colonel Carrasco, whose wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroTomas MilianFernando ReyA Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.
- DirectorDuccio TessariStarsFranco NeroEli WallachLynn RedgraveA self-proclaimed Russian prince, a Mexican bandit and a radical Irish female journalist team up during the Mexican Revolution to find fortune and notoriety.
- DirectorEmilio MailléStarsHéctor BonillaPatricia Reyes Spíndola
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsPedro ArmendárizMaría Elena MarquésCarlos López MoctezumaThe disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsDamián AlcázarJuan Manuel BernalBruno BichirButch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
- DirectorJorge FonsStarsDaniel Giménez CachoJosé María YazpikJulio BrachoTells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
- DirectorJosé BolañosStarsSilvia PinalJaime FernándezNarciso Busquets"La soldadera" (the female soldier) focuses upon Lázara, a simple country girl who is caught up in the Mexican Revolution. At the beginning of the film, she is a newlywed whose husband, Juan, is forced to join the federal army during the revolution. Lázara chooses to follow Juan, but unfortunately he is soon killed in battle. One of the Villista soldiers (supporters of Pancho Villa), Nicolás, takes Lázara to be his woman and so she becomes part of their band. Lázara has to walk alongside Nicolás' horse whilst carrying his rifle and gun belt as they travel. One of the older "soldaderas" puts the gun belt on Lázara and shows her how to shoot. Although Lázara does not fight, she is present during moments of conflict and is involved in the looting of a town. But Lázara wishes for nothing more than a home.