Juan Carlos ColomboFilmography

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Nora's Will

Actors: Cecilia Suarez, Veronica Langer, Marina de Tavira, Fernando Luján, Juan Carlos Colombo

Synopsis: A Jewish family in Mexico is turned upside down when a long-held family secret is uncovered in this comedy-drama from director Mariana Chenillo. Nora (Silvia Mariscal) is in poor health, and with Passover coming up, she decides she wants to end her life so that her family can come together for the Read More

2009
More Than Anything in the World

Actors: Elizabeth Cervantes, Julia Urbini, Juan Carlos Colombo, Andres Montiel, Amira Aguilar

Synopsis: Filmmaking duo Andres Leon Becker and Javier Solar took home top prize at the Guadalajara and Montreal Film Festivals for this visually inventive tale the warm relationship shared between a seven-year old girl and her single mother, and what becomes of their bond when the imaginative daughter Read More

2006
La Ley De Herodes

Actors: Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Delia Casanova, Juan Carlos Colombo, Alex Cox

Synopsis: Luis Estrada directs this groundbreaking and extremely controversial satire about Mexico's long-ruling political party, the PRI. Set in the late 1940s in the remote, thoroughly backwards village of San Pedro de los Saguaros, the film focuses on Vargas (Damian Alcazar), a petty politician who had Read More

6/13/03
Francisca

Synopsis: Ulrich Noethen stars in this Spanish-language espionage thriller from Mexican director Eva López Sánchez. Fleeing Germany for Mexico, spy Helmut (Noethen) is tapped by the Mexican secret service to go undercover as a professor to help bring down a group of local militants. Unfortunately, Helmut Read More

2003
Corazones Rotos

Actors: Veronica Merchant, Rafael Sanchez Navarro, Carmen Montejo, Odiseo Bichir

Synopsis: Humor and tragedy mingle in this film, which examines the lives of a handful of people living in a large Mexico City apartment complex. Teresa (Lorena Rojas) has an unexpected encounter with a boy she knew from high school; where she once taunted him as a bookworm, she now finds herself attracted Read More

2001
Sexo Por Compasion

Actors: Elizabeth Margoni, Alex Angulo, Pilar Bardem, Juan Carlos Colombo, Mariola Fuentes

Synopsis: The healing power of the sexual act is the focus of this magic-realist entry, shot in Mexico and produced in Spain by writer-director Laura Mana. Evoking films as disparate as Wings of Desire, Like Water for Chocolate, and Breaking the Waves, Sexo Por Compasion switches from black and white to Read More

2000
Un Dulce Olor a Muerte

Actors: Karra Elejalde, Ana Alvarez, Diego Luna, Héctor Alterio, Laila Saab

Synopsis: Murder, mob justice and a young man's coming of age are brought together in this thriller filmed in Mexico. Ramon (Diego Luna), a young man who lives in a small Mexican farming community, one day finds the body of Adela (Laila Saab) in a field, stabbed to death. The incident is doubly upsetting Read More

1999
El Evangelio De Las Maravillas

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Katy Jurado, Carolina Papaleo, Edwarda Gurrola, Bruno Bichir

Synopsis: Mexican director Arturo Ripstein helmed this Mexican-Argentine-Spanish religious drama with Buñuelian overtones. Based on true events that took place in Mexico during the '70s, the film is updated to the present. Mama Dorita (Katy Jurado) leads the New Jerusalem cult with film-buff Papa Basilio (Francisco Rabal Read More

1998
Alta Tension

Actors: Juan Manuel Bernal, María Rojo, Maria Colla, Jésus Ochoa, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Juan Carlos Colombo, Evangelina Elizondo

1997
La Reina da la Noche

Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alberto Estrella, Blanca Guerra, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Alex Cox

Synopsis: The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins Read More

1994
Clear and Present Danger

Actors: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny

Synopsis: This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Read More

1994
Desiertos Mares

Actors: Arturo Rios, Dolores Heredia, Juan Carlos Colombo, Veronica Merchant, Lisa Owen

Synopsis: This Mexican drama comprised of three separate intermeshed storylines is centered around a fictionalized modern filmmaker, Juan (Arturo Rios). In the first one, Juan is depressed after his girlfriend left him for another man. He begins having violent fits of anger in his efforts to get her back. Read More

1994
Los Vuelcos del Corazon

Synopsis: This Mexican drama, set in 1941 just before the U.S. entered WW II, examines the lives of Communists who worked and spread propaganda in Mexico. Jose is an aspiring novelist and Communist living in Mexico. Raquel, a prostitute and waitress, lives with him. She loves him deeply. He carries a torch Read More

1994
Cronos

Actors: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath

Synopsis: This surreal variant on the classic vampire tale is the directorial debut of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who garnered international acclaim and several awards. The film tells the story of elderly antique dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi, in a role originally written for Max Von Sydow) Read More

1993
Miroslava

Actors: Arielle Dombasle, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: At the time of her death in 1955 at age twenty five, Czech-born Mexican actress Miroslava had been in over twenty films. Her cool, distant beauty attracted Mexican viewers to her films then and continues to do so now. This biographical drama covers her life as a young girl escaping just ahead of Read More

1993
La Mujer de Benjamin

Actors: Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Arcelia Ramirez, Malena Doria, Eduardo Palomo

Synopsis: When he's not in his store working with his sharp-tongued, disagreeable sister, Benjamin, who never married, hangs out with his cronies. However, whenever the lovely and virginal teenager Natividad walks by, a hush falls over his group. Benjamin's gaze, in particular, remains fixed on her Read More

1991
Easy Monthly Payments

Actors: Dino Garcia, Claudia Fernandez, Juan Carlos Colombo, Carmen Madrid, Gabriel Berthier, Mercedes Olea

Synopsis: As all too many people know from painful experience, or can figure out with a little math, the friendly people who offer Easy Monthly Payments know that they've got you paying through the nose for their little conveniences. Unfortunately for Jose, even though he was on the fast-track at work, he Read More

1990