Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.

Mafia members go after a father and a son who know too much.

A young peasant falls in love with his American boss, creating nothing but trouble for his Mexican girlfriend and his family.

Emilio tries to retire from Camelia's gang; she has her men bushwhack him, but he escapes and plans revenge. Sequel to Contrabando Y Traicion.

Trucker gets caught up in some shady business and ultimately gets killed. His brother takes revenge.

After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.

Santo fights diamond smugglers.

Santo goes to Ecuador to sit in nightclubs and watch stage shows, also to crack a counterfeiting ring.

Santo, the saint of the wrestling ring, faces off against an evil voodoo priestess intent on making a more powerful atomic bomb!

Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.

A young heiress is kidnapped by two aspiring thieves who are then captured by a mad scientist. It's up to the police, Santo, and Blue Demon to rescue them.

Santo must investigate a secret conspiracy involving a spy training camp, a brainwashing plot, and a kidnapped Nazi scientist.

The rich landowner La Tigresa suffers several attacks and seeks help from Santo. The attacks continue but Santo protects and she falls for him.

Legendary masked wrestler El Santo must stop a criminal gang.

Blue Demon and pals square off against the Black Hand's army of super powered midgets. Five luchadores (Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, El Medico Asesino, La Sombra Vengadora, Tinieblas plus Black Shadow) face off against a mad scientist and his army of powerful wrestling midgets.

The vampire women of Mexico have awakened to take their revenge on the descendant of the man who destroyed them shortly after they had emigrated to Mexico during the 19th century.

A group of international criminals steal a large emerald from a heavily guarded Colombian mine and they plan to sell it on the black market. Unfortunately, the evil Dr. Igor is also manipulating other criminals, as well as the ones who stole the emerald, for his own benefit. Santo, a Mexican wrestler/Interpol agent works with the Colombian authorities in an attempt to recover the emerald and to stop Dr. Igor and his subordinates, as well.

A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.

Mil Mascaras investigates a nest of fifth-columnists operating out of a carnival (!) led by a Nazi (John Carradine) attempting to resurrect the Third Reich posing as a circus clown .

Wrestling superhero Mil Máscaras battles bad guys.

Wrestler vs. organized crime.

A wrestling hero helps the police in their battle against a mad doctor and his army of female zombies.

A former wrestler called "the bat" lives in hiding after being disfigured and plans to kidnap a beautiful female singer and a lucha libre star known as Blue Demon.

Blue Demon returns in one of his best adventures like Agent Zero, who this time is facing a criminal organization that attempts to poison the world with a deadly gas (whose formula is unknown). This time, Zero (Blue Demon) is the only one qualified to investigate and prevent Hans plans, the evil leader of the organization.

Arácnea's residents have been desperately searching for a source of food to save the life of their queen (a big spider). Earth is chosen, since human brains are apparently like health food for alien spiders.

The leader and villain of the movie is called Kadena, a buxom girl, who is the real deal of the gang "Hell's Angels" and whose goal is to kill the Mil Mascaras as sending to jail to his sweetheart consented. What force our hero to golpisar to bad and bad.

Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.

A group of beautiful female vampires lure men to their estate so they can feed on their blood.

Santo goes up against the vampire Baron Brakola, who has returned to seek vengeance on the descendants of the Knight in the Silver Mask (Santo's colonial era ancestor).

Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.

The Blue Demon faces a murderous satanic hypnotist.

The ring possessed "Angel" and "Satan" not accept under any circumstances the trickery proposal with "Tarzan Beto" idol of the moment.

Santo investigates a series of grave robberies.

Santo battles the Strangler.

In the Age of the Inquisitions, 1603, Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata, is being laid to rest by a group of monks. The Black Hood, an axe-wielder and a tormented soul who sold his soul to the devil after losing his love to El Santo, appears at the foot of his tomb and swears to seek his revenge no matter how many centuries it takes. El Santo is the chosen one and is sworn to fight for good and justice at any cost. After he finds his love, Alicia, dead at the hands of the Black Hood, El Santo must trust his faith and use his strength in this battle of good vs. evil.

Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.

Wrestler vs mad-scientist with werewolf serum.

El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!

Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.

Bad Comanches persuade good Apaches to go on the warpath.

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.

Hurricane Ramirez is the new manager of the arena and champion of the ring. He must battle with The Prince, a ruthless criminal who will try to end with his life.

Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.

Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter.

Agent Joaquin recalls his latest mission while lying wounded in an ambulance: Joaquin has infiltrated into a band of smugglers. When the villains learn the truth about him, they kidnap Jouqin's fiancee. Santo comes to her rescue and fights the band.

The silver-masked hero must foil the plot of a mad scientist to create a zombie army.

All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.

Cowboy avenger vs the supernatural.

Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").

Villa's troops contend with some rival factions trying to gain control of a misplaced treasure trove.

Sequel to El Tesoro De Pancho Villa; masked wrestler battles gangsters trying to take control of five clues to the location of a hidden treasure.

An evil mastermind, known as La mano negra, attempts to steal a formula that creates synthetic drugs but a masked avenger known as La sombra will do anything to stop him.

Masked wrestler vs. gothic criminal gang. Third or fourth in a series.

The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.