Luis Estrada Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

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A Wonderful World

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damián Alcázar, Cecilia Suarez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Martin Altomaro, Jésus Ochoa, Noe Alvarado, Silverio Palacios

Synopsis: A simple homeless man in search of a warm place to sleep is exploited by politicians eager to prove that poverty in Mexico has been eradicated in Herod's Law director Luis Estrada's caustic satire concerning the effect of globalization on Mexican citizens. A press conference has been held to Read More

2006
El Joven Marcado

Crew: Director

Actors: Luis Gatica, Rafael Goyri, Carlos Cardan, John Solís, Carlos Puente

Synopsis: A young man with a promising future finds his life taking an unexpected turn following a horrifying encounter with two corrupt cops in this brutal revenge thriller. There was a time when Johnny could be anything he wanted in life, but then he was raped by a pair of sadistic cops. Thirsting for Read More

2005
La Ley De Herodes

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

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
Los Dos Federales

Crew: Director

2000
Ambar

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Hector Bonilla, Jorge Russeck, Martin Altomaro, Muni Lubezki, Pedro Armendariz, Jr.

Synopsis: This Mexican fantasy-adventure uses a combination of live-action and miniatures to tell the tale of a young man who finds himself in possession of a rare piece of amber. This stone leads him into many adventures including bouts with sea captains, commissioners, prostitutes, and exotic dancers. Read More

1994
Bandidos

Crew: Director

Actors: Pedro Armendariz, Jr.

Synopsis: Luis is the only survivor of an attack by bandits on his boarding school. Chaos rocks the Mexican countryside during the 1910 revolution, and the boy is happy to have survived. Before he can get away and head towards home, he encounters another group of bandits. These are pre-teens who scavenge Read More

1990
Camino Largo a Tijuana

Crew: Director

Actors: Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Ofelia Medina

Synopsis: Lila (Patricia Pereyra) is a teenaged heroin addict who is on the run from some rough customers. It doesn't matter to her that these unpleasant characters were hired by her parents to drag her back to her home. She stumbles into an auto junkyard and is befriended by the manager, Juan (Pedro Armendariz, Jr. Read More

1988
La Guerra del Cerdo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jose Slavin, Martha Gonzalez, Adriana Parets, Edgardo Suárez, Osvaldo Terranova

Synopsis: This movie is adapted from La Guerra del Cerdo, a chilling novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares. In some not-too distant future, a whole class of young people grows up viewing the elderly as wholly disposable. The youngsters in this film view the elderly with contempt; they deprive the young of money Read More

1975
El Pibe Cabeza

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alfredo Alcon, Jose Slavin, Martha Gonzalez, Edgardo Suárez, Raul Lavie

Synopsis: Directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, El Pibe Cabeza, or Kid Head, tells the fact-based story of an infamous small-town gangster who lived in Argentina during the 1930s. After raping the daughter of the village railway boss, Kid Head (Alfredo Alcon) is sent to jail where he meets and befriends a Read More

1975
Los Siete Locos

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The elaborate plans of a group of would-be revolutionaries in the 1930s are foiled, in this Argentine film, when a group of military men pull off a coup and use the stated aspirations of the civilian group to justify their actions. Since the muddle-headed revolutionaries couldn't decide whether Read More

1973
La Maffia

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The names have been changed to protect the guilty in this crime thriller that is based on the exploits of Argentine mafiosi in the '20s and '30s. Francesco Donato (Jose Slavin) is the current godfather of the Argentine mafia, but his assistant Luciano (Alfredo Alcon) wants his job. He believes he Read More

1972
El Santo De La Espada

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alfredo Alcon, Lautaro Murúa, Ana Maria Picchio, Héctor Pellegrini

Synopsis: Alfredo Alcon stars as the Argentine military hero General Jose de San Martin. He falls in love and marries the beautiful Remedios de Escalada (Evangelina Salazar) who gives birth to the couple's daughter before her untimely demise. San Martin helps to liberate Argentina, Peru and Chile from Read More

1970
Martin Fierro

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alfredo Alcon, Graciela Borges, Maria Aurelia Bisutti

Synopsis: This story is taken from the 1872 poem written by Argentine poet Jose Hernandez. Martin (Alfredo Alcon) is a gaucho and a happily married family man who is drafted by the army. Sent to a remote outpost to fight Indians, he is relegated to working on the camp commandant's farm. After his tour of Read More

1968