An uneven director, lots of work-for-hire in his catalogue... but his best are sublime, and he can usually be counted on for a proto-feminist and queer-adjacent sensibility that wasn't common in the Mexican film industry back then.
Tiered:
1-4: Masterful
4-18: "Expressive esoterica" level -- some combination of
very solid mainstream-film values, auteurist titles with intriguing allegorical levels that don't always work perfectly, and gender-studies theses that consistently promote a coherent pro-feminist critique.
19-30: Acceptable entertainments, not particularly interesting in any way.
31-35: Unusually dull.
36-41: Really dire.
Haven't yet seen:
Don Simon De Lira (1946)
Historia De Un Corazon (1951)
La Mafia del Crimen (1958)
Una Cancion Para Recordar (1960)
Cada Voz Lleva su Angustia (1965)
Morelos, Siervo De La Nacion (1965)
Educacion Extraescolar En El Medio Urbano (short, 1975)