A lazy slob agrees to a fixed boxing match in order to be accepted by his family and friends.

Mr. Quevedo is a public relationist in a real estate company managed by Mr. Cepeda. Mr. Cepeda has become rich through fraudulent practices. Mr. Martinez is a client who was victimized by Mr. Cepeda; thus he appears one day at the real estate office looking for Mr. Cepeda but instead he found Mr. Quevedo and appoints him with a gun, Mr. Quevedo farts unintentionally due to the menacing situation. Mr. Quevedo teaches the audience to bravely act according to the own values. —Elizabeth Kahl

The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.

Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained frenzy.

An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.

Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't work, they hatch a kidnapping scheme, and the movie shifts its focus to the rich people who have been profiting off their poverty.

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.

The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.