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Actors: Eduardo Palomo, Rebecca Jones, Regina Blandon, Guillermo Gil, Alejandro Parodi
Synopsis: Jose Luis Garcia Agraz's The Mystery of Trinidad starts when a 70-year-old man dies while searching for the remains of a Spanish ship that sank in the Gulf of Mexcio during the 1600s. He wills his boat to his son and his granddaughter. They soon decide to continue his goal of finding the ship Read More
Actors: Rodolfo Arias, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Ana Bertha Espin, Isaura Espinoza
Synopsis: This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the 19th century president of Mexico who, in 1847, waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory. Su Alteza Serenísima finds Santa Anna (Alejandro Parodi) in poor Read More
Actors: Gerardo Taracena, Tiare Scanda
Synopsis: The intense, downbeat drama To and Fro is the feature film debut of Mexican director Salvador Aguirre. Filiberto (Gerardo Taracena) lives in California for three years as a laborer. He returns to Mexico to find his village in shambles, his mother gone, and the water supply controlled by an evil Read More
Actors: Evangelina Sosa, Roberto Sosa, Alejandro Parodi
Synopsis: Those who enjoy religious allegories like Pilgrim's Progress will have an easier time with this carefully constructed drama than those looking simply for a straightforward story. In the movie, circus-born Alma is a performer at the Fantasia Circus. Her mother has left her, and she is having an Read More
Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alejandro Parodi, Evangelina Sosa, Damián Alcázar, Ernesto Yanez
Synopsis: Even with careful handling, this sordid story based on a tale by the famed French writer Guy de Maupassant might repel would-be viewers, but add in scatology and high-blown philosophical maunderings by the lead characters, and you have a recipe for a cinematic disaster. In the story, a sailor has Read More
Actors: Diana Bracho, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Dolores Beristain, Arcelia Ramirez
Synopsis: Romelia's granddaughters have always believed that granny (Dolores Beritain) was a widow. When they accompany her to her hometown to look over a property she has recently inherited, they are surprised to discover that for all those years she was only separated from from her husband, Dr. Roman (Pedro Armendariz, Jr. Read More
Actors: Gonzalo Vega, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Alejandro Parodi, Lolo Navarro
Synopsis: This dreamy and somewhat improbable tale set in the Mexican countryside has been compared with the fantasy-laden social satires of (Luis Bunuel). Not coincidentally, the director of this film, Luis Alcoriza has worked with Bunuel. In the story, Candelario (Gonzalo Vega), a rugged unemployed man Read More
Actors: Alejandro Parodi, Enrique Hernandez, Ricardo Lopez Nava, Fernando Balzaretti
Synopsis: A wealthy industrial family tries to overcome the death of their patriarch in this social melodrama. The eldest son inherits the reigns of the factory but is undermined by his younger brother. The sibling rivalry escalates into kidnapping and blackmail as the residents of town protest against Read More
Actors: José Carlos Ruiz, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alejandro Parodi, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Angélica Aragón
Synopsis: This filmed biography explores the life of the Mexican artist Francisco Goitia (played by Jose Carlos Ruiz), whose internal struggle with what he perceived to be a conflict between art and religious faith worked itself out in his many paintings. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Rafael Sanchez Navarro, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alejandro Parodi, Salvador Sanchez, Socorro Bonilla
Synopsis: The Mexican "Desarrollo de Investigacion para la Planeacion Familiar" or Diplaf, a state-funded family-planning agency, funded this cautionary drama, filmed in a somewhat avant-garde and experimental manner. In the story, a childless couple suffer endlessly, and their relationship deteriorates as Read More
Actors: José Carlos Ruiz, María Rojo, Alejandro Parodi, Jorge Zepeda
Synopsis: This film came into existence because the screenwriter and director won a 1983 screenplay-writing competition. In the story, a family of eight "Chilangos" are vacationing in the Mexican countryside. "Chilangos" are long-time residents of Mexico City, and they are famed for having loud Read More
Actors: Mario Almada, Hugo Stiglitz, Sergio Goyri, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Gerardo Vigil
Synopsis: Police Captain Balbuena (Mario Almada) is taken off the case when he uncovers police involvement with notorious drug smugglers in this action drama. When he loses his job, Balbuena gathers a group of outlaws to go after the gangsters. El Loco Ordonez (Jorge Luke) is recruited to lead the Read More
Actors: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Margarita Sanz
Synopsis: Dull-witted Mexican peasant Ernesto Gomez Cruz comes into possession of a rooster severely injured in a cockfight. He restores the bird's health and wins several bouts, then runs afoul of gambler Alejandro Parodi, who has the rooster's ribs cracked so it can never win again. Taking Cruz under his Read More
Actors: Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Alma Muriel, Enrique Rocha, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Claudio Obregón
Synopsis: Five separate stories written by Pedro F. Miret are each interpreted by a different director in this 100-minute compilation film. The first story, "Service à la Carte," (director Victor Saca) is about a gentle, unassuming young man who is harassed in the hallway of his apartment building every day Read More
Actors: Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Alejandro Parodi, Delia Casanova
Synopsis: Alsino & the Condor is a multinational production, utilizing financing from Nicaragua, Mexico, Cuba and Costa Rica. The film is related from the point of view of Alsino (Alan Esquivel), an impoverished Nicaraguan lad. While his country and its rotting buildings crumble all around him, the Read More
Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Nelson Villagra, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alejandro Parodi, Katy Jurado
Synopsis: A crooked cop who was sent to prison for stealing drugs and brutally beaten by his fellow inmates suffers a serious concussion that makes him believe he is the fictional protagonist from an American crime novel in this humorous action thriller from director Alfredo Gurrola. Upon awakening from his Read More
Actors: Diana Bracho, Eduardo Lopez Rojas
Synopsis: Originally Actas De Marusia, this Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small Chilean mining town in 1907. Suffering under the despotic rule of the British mine owners, the workers stage a revolt. The government's solution is to utterly destroy the town Read More
Synopsis: When a vicious band of outlaws set out across the countryside on a horrific mission of murder and robbery, the only hope for the terrified peasants is a prodigal son who has recently returned to his hometown after a stint in the big city. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More
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