Rodrigo Puebla Filmography

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Ruby Cairo

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Jack Thompson, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The owner of an aircraft salvage company (Viggo Mortensen) is reported killed in a crash. However, his wife (Andie MacDowell) knows better, and she decides to find him and his secret bank accounts. She travels around the world, and winding up in Cairo, she meets Liam Neeson, who helps her uncover Read More

1992
Pure Luck

Actors: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: This wacky buddy comedy was the fifth in a series of Hollywood remakes of films by French director Francis Veber, none of which were box office successes. Sheila Kelley is Valerie Highsmith, an heiress who, despite her family's wealth, suffers from horribly bad luck. On a vacation to Mexico, she Read More

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In Necuepaliztli In Aztlan - Retorno A Aztlan

Actors: Rodrigo Puebla, Rafael Cortes, Socorro Avelar

Synopsis: This historical drama set in the last years of the Aztec Empire before the arrival of Europeans is told entirely in Nahuatl, the ancient Aztec language. It tells the story of a warrior-priest's journey to Aztlan, the original (and very poor) homeland of the Aztecs. Ollín (Rodrigo Puebla) is making Read More

1991
Les Pyramides Bleues

Actors: Omar Sharif, Arielle Dombasle, Hippolyte Girardot, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Pierre Vaneck

Synopsis: Elise (Arielle Dombasle) is content being the lover of Alex (Omar Sharif), a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back. He offers money to the corrupt cult leader Noah (Pierre Vaneck Read More

1988
Viaje al Paraiso

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

1987
Murieron a Mitad del Rio

Actors: Héctor Suárez, Tony Bravo, Jorge Luke, Enrique Lucero, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos

Synopsis: In this cautionary tale, based on a novel by Luis Spota, the travails of four "wetbacks" are told. These men have left their homes throughout Mexico in order to sell their labor north of the Border in the U.S. Along the way, one dies while crossing the Rio Grande, another is deported, a third is Read More

1987
Romancing the Stone

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau

Synopsis: Kathleen Turner plays a writer of adventure stories, Joan Wilder, who has been having trouble selling her works of late because they aren't remotely believable. The basic problem is that the mousy Joan has never had any real adventure in her life. All this changes when she receives a frantic phone Read More

1984
The Evil That Men Do

Actors: José Ferrer, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, Rene Enriquez

Synopsis: In yet another slick, formulaic Charles Bronson vengeance film (they would continue until the actor was in his mid-70s, still playing the morally insulted friend/husband/lover), Bronson is Holland, an assassin for hire who has just come out of retirement to finish off a Guatemalan thug by the name Read More

1984
El Norte

Actors: Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago, Eraclio Zepeda

Synopsis: El Norte is a realistic picture of both the Guatemalan government's oppression of the Quiche Indians and the hard life of illegal immigrants in the United States. After the Guatemalan army destroys their village of San Pedro, two teenage Quiche Mayan Indian siblings journey north (hence El Norte) Read More

1983
Picardia Mexicana

Synopsis: Picardia Mexicana tells the tale of a teacher who helps turn two classmates who hate each other into very good friends. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
El Elegido

Actors: Katy Jurado, Manuel Ojeda, Héctor Suárez, Rodrigo Puebla, Patricia Reyes Spindola

Synopsis: In this anti-religious Mexican movie, based on a play by Carlos Solorzano, the actors who, every year, re-enact the Passion Play during Holy Week in Ixtapapalapa are shown to be deformed and stupid. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Juan Armenta El Repatriado

Synopsis: Fernando Duran's action film Juan Armenta El Repatriado concerns the title hero teaming up with his twin in order to defeats group of bad guys. Their relationship complicates when, after that adventure, he begins an affair with his twin's wife. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Canoa

Actors: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Arturo Alegro, Jaime Garza

Synopsis: This 1976 Mexican feature is based on a reportedly real incident which took place in 1968. When a group of hikers happen upon a village governed by a paranoid and fanatical priest, they are labelled as communists and desecrators and are lynched by the bespelled townspeople. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

1976
La Ley Del Monte

Actors: Patricia Aspillaga, Narciso Busquets, Elsa Cardenas, Vicente Fernandez, Julian Soler

Synopsis: As violence and chaos sweeps across the Mexican landscape no one is safe from the destruction that threatens to wipe out everything in its path in a nail-biting thriller directed by Vicente Fernandez and starring Patricia Aspillaga. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
La Casa Del Sur

Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola

Synopsis: In The House in the South, a group of desperately impoverished desert dwellers are induced by a government program to move to a lush tropical island if they can ever get there. Their obstacle earlier was simply the cruelty of nature; in their new situation, mankind's cruelty to mankind is the worm Read More

1974
Le Magnifique

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Monique Tarbes

Synopsis: In this parody of James Bond movies, a dullard of a spy novelist finds himself the subject of an English sociology student's term papers. She travels to his Paris apartment to do her research and their relationship is interspliced with episodes from the writer's newest book that features his Read More

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