Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Birthday: Born in 1933-11-08 in Puerto de Veracruz, Mexico
Deathday: 2024-04-06
Ernesto Gómez Cruz (November 8, 1933 - April 6, 2024) was a prolific Mexican actor with more than 154 films. In his beginnings, he began as a photographer in his native Veracruz, where he met a friend who invited him to study dramatic art. In his notes from yesterday, he mentions that he wanted to be a singer, but his shyness and lack of preparation led him to abandon this path. He has more than two hundred films to his credit. He has worked with great directors such as Miguel Littin, Felipe Cazals, Arturo Ripstein and Luis Estrada; He has also worked with actors of the stature of Damián Alcázar, Ignacio López Tarso and Pedro Armendáriz Jr., among others. His long artistic career has allowed him to be deserving and awarded with different recognitions; one of the most recent was in 2014, at the 56th Ariel award, where he was awarded the Ariel de Oro. He is the second Mexican actor with the most Ariel awards and nominations. In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited him to be a special part of its new members.
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La Hora Marcada
Character: (Varios)
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón....
Hasta que te conocí
Character: Juan "Juanito" Contreras
"Hasta que Te Conocí" unravels the life of the Divo de Juárez: Juan Gabriel. Gabriel's extraordinary talent as a singer-songwriter allowed him to rise above poverty, betrayal, and prejudice, eventually making him one the most beloved performers in all of Ibero-America....
Capadocia
Character: Fernando Mirana
Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010....
Por amar sin ley
Character: Plutarco
The story of two lawyers specializing in family law, Ricardo and Alejandra, that despite coming from two disappointments and being in a world where it seems that love loses strength, before so much divorce, they still have faith in finding true love....
Mi segunda madre
Character: Nacho
The story tells the story of Diana (Maria Sortè), a highly successful fashion designer married to an unreliable and lying man, Giacomo, and of Gianluca (Enrique Novi), a widower with a 10-year-old girl, Arianna. Diana, after discovering that Giacomo has another wife and two children, Davide and Chicco, abandons him, and leaves for a cruise with her friend Gloria. On the ship he meets Gianluca in the company of Viviana, who is actually staying with him for money. The meeting between Gianluca and ...
María José
Character: Serafín
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Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
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The Crime of Padre Amaro
Character: Obispo
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life....
Bandidas
Character: Brujo
Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists....
Latino Bar
Character: Blind musician
A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words....
Herod's Law
Character: Gobernador
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals....
Los amorosos
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Tespis Teporocho
Character: Tespis
In "Tespis Teporocho", a boy who interacts with vagabonds thirsty for knowledge, finally absorb them from an unexpected teacher....
El lado oscuro de la noche
Character: Papá Valeria
Valeria and Pablo, her husband, own an important hotel chain, which she inherited and he manages. Valeria knows that she suffers from chronic insomnia but has managed to control it and live a normal life....
El Norte
Character: Arturo
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life....
Juan Diego: El indio de Guadalupe
Character: Juan Bernardino
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Amor de mis amores
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Midaq Alley
Character: Don Ru
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband....
A Wonderful World
Character: Compadre Filemón
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico....
El Infierno
Character: Don José Reyes
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive....
Another Mexican
Character: Don Leodegario
Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story...
La casa de los cuchillos
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Emiliano Zapata
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This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution....
Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
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Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in prison. Once discovered it became a major scandal in the 70s....
In the Land of Light Feet
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During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers....
The Fifth Commandment
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Víctor, a psychopath, loves carving crosses onto women post-mortem, blames paedophile priest and mother-in-denial for his behaviour, falls in love with one of his intended victims and decides to give up his adopted lifestyle. An alcoholic detective (he’s mourning his sister’s passing), eventually tracks down Víctor, and manages to break his habit with the bottle....
Mariana Mariana
Character: Gardener
The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers....
Las Armas
Character: Gobernador Giner
A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the Madera military barracks; most of them lose their lives....
The Cousin
Character: Cacique gordo
A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs....
El maestro prodigioso
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Three stories, each one with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country's educational system. The first story, Memorial of a Madman, is a testimony to the marginalized education offered in our rural communities. The Mission deals with the expulsion and death of the Jesuit teaching missionaries. The third one, The Prodigious Teacher, tells of the persecution and imprisonment of the free students and prodigious teachers of 1968....
13 Días antes de vivir
Character: Fiscal Especial
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La hija del odio
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Fraude en el sexenio
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El sexenio de la muerte
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The Stork's Mistake
Character: Don Cosme
India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy....
Vagabunda
Character: Don Melitón
Vagabunda is the story of young girl (Flor), well aware about her seductive skills, who arrives from an unknown place into a small town in Verazcruz where she is protected by the widowed father of a family who has two sons; one married and the other one lame. After weighting possibilities she ends up dividing the family to get the benefits of the family patrimony causing the married man to killed his pregnant wife, fact that is covered up by his father. At his sister in law's funeral, the head o...
Para matar al presidente
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Mexican feature film...
Rulfo aeternum
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Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child....
Perro rabioso III: Tras el rostro
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Alto poder
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Odio, amor y muerte
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Nocturno a Rosario
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Mafia En Jalisco
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A battle between Jalisco mobsters & federal agents....
Su herencia era matar
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Sandino
Character: Farabundo Martí
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."...
Chacales de la frontera
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Invitación a morir
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Angeles Infernales
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A gang of cross-dressers terrorize a city and a vengeful cop is after them....
Zapata en Chinameca
Character: Pancracio Rodríguez
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata....
Operacion marihuana
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El puente II
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Mexican feature film...
Pueblo de Boquilla
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Mexican feature film...
The Evil That Men Do
Character: Café Owner
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wi...
Erendira
Character: Grocer
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her....
Caminando pasos... caminando
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In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into the struggle of a guerrilla group....
Tacos al Carbón
Character: Uncredited
Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City....
Los perturbados
Character: El Cacomistle (segment "La Obsesión")
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La derrota
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Tú, yo, nosotros
Character: Black outlaw
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection....
Pasajeros en Transito
Character: Jobito
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Paty chula
Character: Mr. Gutierrez
Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse the invitation since the signing of the contract depends on this meeting. In 1993 this film received the Ariel Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best medium-length fiction film....
El extensionista
Character: Nazario
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Mudstained Flower
Character: Don Trini
A married, middle-aged well-known biochemist and university teacher Augusto, leaves his wife, his job and the comfort of his life to go after Marlene, a 14-year-old teenager with extraordinary beauty who burst into his life unexpectedly. One day, Marlene is taken from the custody of Augustus by Genaro, a psychotic sailor, who seduces and finally kidnaps her by taking to the ominous port of Tampico, where Augustus will seek her to try to free her, not without giving her life to pain and atonement...
Life Sentence
Character: Corporal Pantoja
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks....
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Character: Pablo Seanez
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution....
Cháman, viento de muerte
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Los Caifanes
Character: El Azteca
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other....
Los confines
Character: Juvencio Nava
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones....
Living Is What Matters
Character: Lázaro
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife....
La viuda de Montiel
Character: Carmichael
Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival...
La ley del ejecutor
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A Shred Of Mist
Character: Doctor
After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture....
Familia Gang
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A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this happen, he cuts a deal with his family, who require a dead body to pose as a double. Topillero is responsible of executing the plan. But on this journey he is reunited with his wife and son, whom he abandoned years ago....
El baile de la iguana
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Mexican feature film...
The Realm of Fortune
Character: Dionisio Pinzón
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die....
Así es la Suerte
Character: Esposo de Lidia
Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Despite Ramiro´s efforts, the young man dies before his eyes, which leads him to believe that he has caught his bad luck. From then on, his life turns upside down, at the same time as he gets together with his family to fulfill his father´s last wish: to find the love of his life and say goodbye to her....
De la infancia
Character: Aguacate
Niebla, a teenage gangster, is killed in a shootout and his ghost returns to help Francisco, a ten-year-old boy who is the victim of constant abuse and violent attacks by his father, Basilio, an abusive and violent thief, adored and feared by his son....
Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
Character: Sobrino
The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer investigating the disappearance of the murdered body and an architect hired to design the mausoleum to the memory of the possible dictator....
Baroque
Character: El Indiano
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'...
Mister barrio
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Santos Peregrinos
Character: Don Emiliano
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building discover that three religious figurines passed down through the decades from Emiliano Zapata are full of solid gold. Tempers fly, libidos flare and no one emerges unscathed, including viewers overcome by a heavenly dose of hilarity in Santos Peregrinos....
Desires
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Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin....
The Prophet Mimi
Character: Hermano Mackenzie
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder ....
Días de Combate
Character: Gilberto Gómez Letras
A private detective starts a game of cat and mouse with a psychopath who strangles women who leaves messages on the bodies of his victims....
Las delicias del poder
Character: Carmelo Barriga
A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers....
Alta Tensión
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A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money....
Teo's Journey
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Separated from his father after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, young Teo and his new friend, Chuy, set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find his dad in this touching tale of courage, adventure and friendship....
A Married Woman
Character: Guillermo
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart....
Cosa fácil
Character: Gilberto Gómez
This is a story of revenge, as detective Shayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him blind in one eye. The cases then become personal and Shayne vows to destroy the guilty....
Rattlesnake
Character: Chankin
A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material....
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Character: Lucas
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story....
All Souls' Day
Character: Poet
Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed....
La sangre de un valiente
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General Pershing invades Mexican territory in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus....
El águila descalza
Character: Trabajador factoria
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses....
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Chester
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then......
Uno y medio contra el mundo
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Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society....
Crazy Carnival
Character: El indio
In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establish...
La revancha
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Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police....
El complot mongol
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In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta....
The Coming of the King Olmos
Character: Barber
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?...
Nosotros los pelados
Character: Don Seve
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood....
The Gates of Paradise
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Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete....
Maten al León
Character: Salvador Pereira
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion)....
There's Always a First Time
Character: Hilario (segment "Rosa")
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Long live Tepito!
Character: Chucho / Jesús Ramírez
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral....
Peregrina
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Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s....
Trampas de amor
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Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance....
Viaje al paraíso
Character: Víctor
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong....
Zone of Silence
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Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the present. Another man finds a colonizer guarded by a ghost treasure, two girls are attacked by an evil car and finally a man steals money, then he flees to enter the past....
Trail of Death
Character: Torres
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein....
Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord
Character: Carlitos
A satanic preacher comes to a small town where he unleashed the terror of the inhabitants....
The Throne of Hell
Character: The Wizard
A group of archeologists excavating Aztec ruins in Mexico City uncover a bizarre statue, which unleashes satanic powers and possesses the chief archaeologist. The demonized man goes on a rampage of bloody murders while being pursued by one of his female colleagues and a police officer. Horribly burned in an explosion, he still continues his ungodly crimes, including crucifying a woman upside down. A bishop sends for a mystic called “The Angel”, a character who dresses in medieval clothing and is...
Roots of Blood
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A deadly riot breaks out after unfair labor practices at a garment factory raises tensions between Mexican and Chicano workers....
La muerte de Pancho Villa
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After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated....
The Human Hyena
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The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police department....
La Generala
Character: Cómplice de Feliciano
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction....
El guapo
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Unattractive man receives a large inheritance on condition that he use the money to get plastic surgery and create a better life for himself....
Los Cacos
Character: Arturo
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money....
Las caguamas ninja
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A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together....
El Quelite
Character: Gavillero
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds....
La guerra es un buen negocio
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Comatose little village gets rich overnight selling minerals to arms manufacturers....
En la cuerda del hambre
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Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't work, they hatch a kidnapping scheme, and the movie shifts its focus to the rich people who have been profiting off their poverty....
The One Who Came from Heaven
Character: Auándar Anapu
People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascis...
Una papa sin catsup
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Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life....
The Eve
Character: Manuel Miranda
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered....
Cómo Filmar Una XXX
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Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportunity offered to him to direct a film, without knowing that it is foing to be a porn movie. Gudelio Medina, photographer and Ulysses's old mate, convinces him to do it. All participants in the film, start, unaware of the main porn star gender, making room for hilarious entanglements, but once committed to the project they must discover how to shoot a porn movie and in the process, just maybe, discov...
Tivoli
Character: engineer Reginaldo
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption....
The Recourse to the Method
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Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him,...
Highway Patrolman
Character: Comandante Navarro
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions....
Mundo mágico
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Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance....
Una buena forma de morir
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After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge....
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
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Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality...
Lost Objects
Character: Professor Robles
Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers....
Sin salida
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Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."...
Violent Stories
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Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film....
The Mexican
Character: Tropillo
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border....
Tiempo de lobos
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Two young emigres return home from USA to their family farm to visit for a week....
Dos pistoleros violentos
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Two little boys grow up and go after the two blackhats that killed their parents....
Figuras de la Pasión
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This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – wi...
La loteria
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Four stories that tell the tales of lottery winner. Each story features a different cast of street vendors....
El primer paso... de la mujer
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Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events....
Crónica de familia
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Esteban and María are a young couple of lovers, both belonging to aristocratic families. When María announces she's moving to London to study, the sullen Esteban decides to follow her, and both opt to steal from their parents to escape and be free, with shocking results....
Ya la hicimos
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Virginia and Nacho, is a poor marriage, living precariously on their meager salaries, insufficient to support his child nine years of age. Until fortune smiles and Nacho wins a late model car. But sometimes it's better that luck will smile....
The Overturning Of The Heart
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1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute....
They Call Me Violence
Character: Pecador
Female-lead action film....
Sweet Release
Character: Papá
The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing....
El valle de los miserables
Character: Comandante López
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Neighborhood Rats
Character: Héctor Malagón Ruiz
Mexican feature film...
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Character: Lucas Pereda López
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Those Years
Character: Guillermo Prieto
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico...
Letters from Marusia
Character: Crisculo
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts....
What if we talk about August?
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It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience....
Everyone's Hell so Feared
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The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions....
The Perfect Dictatorship
Character: Señor Humilde
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the...