Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Birthday: Born in 1940-04-06 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Deathday: 2011-12-26
Pedro Armendáriz Bohr (April 6, 1940 – December 26, 2011), better known by his stage name Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., was a Mexican actor who made films and television series from United States and Mexico. Pedro Armendáriz Bohr was born in Mexico City, to Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz and Carmela Bohr. Armendáriz appeared in the James Bond film, Licence to Kill as president Hector Lopez. He also appeared in: Amistad (1997), The Mask of Zorro (1998), The Mexican (2001), Original Sin (2001), In the Time of the Butterflies (2001), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003), The Legend of Zorro (2005), and Freelancers (2012). In November 2011, Armendáriz was diagnosed with eye cancer. He died of the disease on December 26, 2011, at age 71, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. His remains were buried at Panteón Jardín in Mexico City.
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Columbo
Character: Commandante Sanchez
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline....
Remington Steele
Character: Captain Rios
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge....
Airwolf
Character: Captain Mendez
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter....
Knight Rider
Character: Eduardo O'Brian
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series ...
Police Story
Character:
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwith...
La Hora Marcada
Character:
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....
Laberintos de pasión
Character: Padre Mateo Valencia
Laberintos de pasión is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1999. Starring Leticia Calderon, Francisco Gattorno, César Évora, in addition to the participation of Manuel Ojeda, Monika Sanchez and Azela Robinson....
La Fuerza del Destino
Character: Anthony McGuire
La Fuerza del Destino is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. Sandra Echeverria and David Zepeda star as the main protagonists, while Laisha Wilkins, Gabriel Soto, Rosa Maria Bianchi, and Juan Ferrara star as the main antagonists. La Fuerza del Destino won 5 awards in Premios TVyNovelas: Best first actress, best original story or adaptation, best male antagonist, best lead actress, and best telenovela of the year. The theme song is sung by Marc Anthony and Sandra Echeverria...
Tres Mujeres
Character: Federico Mendez
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Tropical Heat
Character: Lt. Carillo
Tropical Heat is a Canadian action series The plot revolves around private investigator, ex-DEA agent Nick Slaughter who after arriving in the fictional resort town of Key Mariah, Florida and setting up a detective agency there, met up with local tourist agent Sylvie Girard to solve a variety of different cases....
El show: crónica de un asesinato
Character: Self (archive footage)
The murder of Paco Stanley, the most popular comedian on television in Mexico, unleashes a series of intrigues in the world of politics and entertainment. Through an in-depth investigation, the use of archival material of the time and the direct testimony of the main people involved in the case, this documentary series delves into the culture of show business and exposes the lies and tragedies that unexpectedly marked the arrival of democracy in Mexico in the year 2000....
Acapulco H.E.A.T.
Character: Colonel Rodriguez
Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise....
Cuentos de Borges
Character: Blot
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La Culpa
Character: Tomás Mendizábal
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Bajo la misma piel
Character: Joaquín Vidaurri
Bajo la misma piel, or internationally known as Under your Skin, is a Mexican television series produced by Televisa starting in 2003. It is an original telenovela from Martha Carrillo and Cristina García. Despite huge exposure prior to its premiere, Bajo la misma piel was only a moderate success in its country of origin, Mexico....
The Rhinemann Exchange
Character: Lt. Fuentes
During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies....
Agujetas de color de rosa
Character: Aarón Zamora
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El camino secreto
Character: Alejandro Faidella
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Destilando amor
Character: Mr. Irving Thomas
Destilando Amor is a 2007 Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Nicandro Díaz. It stars Angélica Rivera and Eduardo Yáñez as the main protagonists and was set primarily in Tequila, Jalisco. It is a remake of the 1994 Colombian telenovela Café, con aroma de mujer, and was nominated for twelve Premios TVyNovelas of which it won ten including Best Telenovela of the Year....
The Love Boat
Character: Ricardo
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins....
Amy, la niña de la mochila azul
Character: Capitán Matías Granados
Amy, la niña de la mochila azul is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 2004. Starring Danna Paola as Amy, Nora Salinas, Eduardo Capetillo, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. and Tatiana....
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
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The Crime of Padre Amaro
Character: El Presidente Municipal Gordo
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....
Licence to Kill
Character: President Hector Lopez
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside....
The Legend of Zorro
Character: Governor Riley
Having spent the last 10 years fighting injustice and cruelty, Alejandro de la Vega is now facing his greatest challenge: his loving wife Elena has thrown him out of the house! Elena has filed for divorce and found comfort in the arms of Count Armand, a dashing French aristocrat. But Alejandro knows something she doesn't: Armand is the evil mastermind behind a terrorist plot to destroy the United States. And so, with his marriage and the county's future at stake, it's up to Zorro to save two ...
Before Night Falls
Character: Reinaldo's Grandfather
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba....
Murder in Three Acts
Character: Col. Mateo
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse....
Death and the Compass
Character: Blot
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)...
Christmas, Inc.
Character: santa claus
With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature....
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Character: Francisco Perez
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own....
One Long Night
Character: Don Ricardo
Richard Macedo, is a young Mexican-American businessman from Orange County whose life is changed over the course of one night through a series of off beat encounters with the denizens of Mexico City....
The Last of the Just
Character: Padre del Toro
A religious thriller that centers on a theory: 30 people have been chosen by God to maintain the balance of world as we know it. These "Chosen Ones" have been methodically exterminated throughout history and it is now time to take out the last of the them....
Killing Cabos
Character: Oscar Cabos
Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped....
Herod's Law
Character: López
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....
Old Gringo
Character: Pancho Villa
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run....
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Character: Pepe Carral
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.The last in the original series of four "Magnificent Seven" movies....
Patsy My Love
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Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world....
There are not Crosses in the Sea
Character: Sergio
A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter....
Wandering Lives
Character: The engineer
Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater....
Los Asesinos
Character: Talbot
Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure. The search leads to an all out war between the town bosses, a family of crooked ranchers and other unsavory characters. But when Shannon (Nick Adams) enters the picture, they may have met their match......
Super Colt 38
Character: Morton
Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes i...
El día que murió Pedro Infante
Character: Editor
Mexican feature film...
Blacker Than the Night
Character: Roberto
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror....
The Undefeated
Character: Escalante
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both ...
Casa de Mi Padre
Character: Miguel Ernesto Alvarez
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord....
La Chèvre
Character: Police commissioner Custao
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes....
A Wonderful World
Character: Director del Periodico
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico....
Divine Confusion
Character: Melesio
The Greek Olimpian Gods engage in the human life experience to its full intensity, for which they choose Mexico City's trendy night club: "Olimpus Dancing Club". Once living in the mortal's world, the naughty Eros (with help of a gang of ill-behaved gods), is responsible for unleashing a forbidden passion that disrupts the lives of the members of two families of not-so-simple mortals....
Reclusorio
Character: Abogado Defensor (segment 'Sangre entre mujeres")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"...
Vagabunda
Character: Pedro Riel
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...
Highway Patrolman
Character: Sargento Barreras
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....
Purgatorio
Character: Don Julio
Three novellas are connected by the character of Don Julio. The old man lives alone in a hacienda which is being absorbed by the huge Mexico City. Don Julio escapes from the surrounding reality into the world of memories. Images from the past are so strong that they reawaken his old love for aunt Cecilia and young Clotilde....
River of Gold
Character: Angel
A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure....
Treasure of the Amazon
Character: Pablo / Zapata
An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle....
Chosen Survivors
Character: Luis Cabral
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two miles below the surface of the Earth. There they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a...
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....
Survival Run
Character: Paco
A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times. When their van breaks down, they find a group of prospectors who welcome the kids and offer them a place to stay until they can get help. It soon becomes evident, however, that there is more to these prospectors than they claim, and soon the teens are fleeing for their lives....
El puente II
Character:
Mexican feature film...
The Passion of Berenice
Character: Rodrigo Robles
Berenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet provincial town. The appearance of Rodrigo in his life will cause him a profound and unusual transformation. The calm without major shocks in Aguascalientes turns out to be just a disguise, an illusory cover-up of what will really happen....
Guns and Guts
Character: The Abandoned Husband
An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal....
Everything In Vain
Character: Pedro
Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge....
From Inside
Character: Domingo Altamirano
Carmen Altamirano was buried alive at 2 years old by her parents. 30 years later, she will have to dig up her past....
Violent Stories
Character: Hombre rico
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film....
Herencia maldita
Character:
Mexican feature film...
Life Sentence
Character: Javier Lira "El Tarzán"
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....
The Deadly Trackers
Character: Herrero
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance....
Speaking of Buñuel
Character: Self
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre....
El golfo
Character: Chulo
Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can....
Les pyramides bleues
Character: Perez-Valdez
Elise is content being the lover of Alex, 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....
The Snitch Cartel
Character: Modesto
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"...
Crónica íntima
Character:
Mexican feature film...
Small Privileges
Character: Pedro
Class differences in Mexican society are expressed in the life and behavior of a young couple member of the burgoisie that will soon become parents, in contrast to their servant and the fatal consequences she suffers due to an unwanted pregnancy....
Camino largo a Tijuana
Character: Juan
Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daughter. Lila is kidnapped by drug dealers and Juan feels responsible for her. He takes the long way to Tijuana to rescue Lila. (Written by Maximiliano Maza mmaza@campus.mty.itesm.mx)...
On the Border
Character: Herman
A dumb as rocks security guard in a Texas border town gets involved in a planned bank heist thanks to the charms of two different femmes fatales....
Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7
Character:
Student nurses join some doctors to work in a medical station a few hours flying-time from the Mexican town of Catamaco. One of their planes goes down due to an engine malfunction and crashes in the rain forest. This is the story of the attempts to save the lives of the passengers (both nurses and doctors)....
Two Crimes
Character: Alfonso
After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his....
Casa de los Babys
Character: Ernesto
A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of easily adopting children. Unfortunately, their plans are complicated by local laws that require the women to live in the foreign nation for an extended period before they can take in orphaned kids. While stuck in another country, the women bond as they share their aspirations and anxieties....
Guns for San Sebastian
Character: Father Lucas
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Even...
The Cisco Kid
Character: General Montano (as Pedro Armendariz)
This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutionaries....
Looking for Palladin
Character: Police Chief
Brash young Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross (David Moscow) is dispatched to Guatemala, where he's assigned to locate missing star Jack Palladin (Ben Gazzara), a man Josh has never met but can't stand due to Palladin's long-ago relationship with his late mother. Despite receiving no help from the amused locals, Josh eventually finds his target hiding out as a cook at a restaurant but discovers that persuading the reluctant actor to return to Hollywood will be an uphill climb. Talia Shire costars...
Hardcase
Character: Simon Fuegus
A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary....
Estas ruinas que ves
Character: Raymundo Rocafuerte
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man....
Memories of the Future
Character: Teniente Flores
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her....
Evita Peron
Character: Cypriano Reyes
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall....
La secta del sargon
Character:
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Tony Tijuana
Character:
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El Grito
Character:
Estela Duarte is divorcing her cheating husband, has moved her two children in with her mom, and has taken the only writing job she can find - as a reporter for the tabloid, El Grito. She covers a series of grisly murders and mutilations of well-dressed women, each of whom turns out to be a mistress of rich men, including her father-in-law. She sees patterns and shares them with Ibarra, the cop in charge of the investigations. Her editor gives her professional support, her friend Laura gives her...
El baile de San Juan
Character: Marqués de la Villa
It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independ...
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
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In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself....
Carroña
Character:
Horseback drama set in Mexico just before the Revolution....
Killer by Night
Character: Dr. Carlos Madera
A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer....
Los años de Greta
Character: Gustavo
Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support....
Nikté
Character:
Nikté is an orphan girl with a very difficult character who wants to be important and, to achieve this, she deceives her people by pretending to be the princess announced in a prophecy. What she does not know is that this will require much more than she can offer and that to fulfill it she will live many adventures, where she will learn that to be the greatest, first you have to be the smallest....
Chisum
Character: Ben
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878....
In the Time of the Butterflies
Character: Captain Peña
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops....
Bandidos
Character:
In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival....
The Minister's Wife
Character: Inspector Romero
Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he is fired as a consequence. The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat, ruined economically, but still with wealthy and influential friends. She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández...
The Log of the Black Pearl
Character: Archie Hector
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named "Black Pearl" along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken Nazi treasure. But there are other people looking for the sunken treasure, people who will stop at nothing to gain access to the medallion....
Three of Cups
Character: Cipriano Melquisdor
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both....
Freelancers
Character: Gabriel Baez
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, trust and respect. When the truth about his father's death is revealed revenge takes him over and he won't stop until justice has been truly served....
The Great Adventure of Zorro
Character: Emilio Walter
The De La Vega's are a wealthy and prestigious family known throughout the territory. When Diego, the youngest son of Don Alejandro de La Vega, returns from his 4 year stay in Spain, he finds him hometown oppressed by the corrupt military forces. The farmers are being run out of their homes and their land is being used as military camps and/or sold off to pay for military supplies and wages, along with taking the poor villagers and using them as slaves. So Diego/Zorro has multiple face offs with...
The Vampire Girls
Character: Carlos Mayer
A wrestler tries to break up a covey of vampires, led by the King of Vampires....
Matar o morir
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Mexican rancher goes to Texas to track down his son's murderer....
Mina, viento de libertad
Character:
Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, but for eight months he directed a series of more or less brilliant military actions, in the face of the harassment of the Viceroy , Who finally got him arrested....
The Pact
Character: Raul Mateos
When they were children, siblings Sergio and Teresa made a promise to never leave each other. An unhealthy co-dependence developes into adulthood....
Original Sin
Character: Jorge Cortés
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp....
Días de Combate
Character: Héctor Belascoarán Shayne
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....
Amistad
Character: General Espatero
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally....
The Flight of the Stork
Character:
An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?...
La casta divina
Character: Abel Ortiz Argumedo
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges....
Cosa fácil
Character: Hector Belascoaran Shayne
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....
Guadalupe
Character:
Jose Maria and his sister Mercedes are archaeologists who have been given a grant to study the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom Juan Diego, an ordinary man living near the hill of Tepeyac, witnessed in December 1531....
Romelia's Secret
Character: Widower Roman
The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides....
Amber
Character: Comisario
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters....
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Character: Rossellini, tenor husband
The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist....
Lonely Mommy
Character:
When her husband abandons her and her son, she ends up as a nightclub singer and gets sick, so the boy travels to the United States because he wants to find his father to ask him to return....
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Character: William Law
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals....
Macho Callahan
Character: Juan
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow....
El billetero
Character:
A poor family hits the lottery....
The Phantom Gunslinger
Character: Algernon
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others. The sheriff leaves town, but not before naming Bill as his successor. Bill, unfortunately, doesn't carry or even know how to use a gun, and the outlaws take over Tucca Flats. But with the help of some Indians, a suit of armor, and springs on his shoes, Bill manages to run the gang out of town....
A Walk on the Moon
Character: Doctor
A Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor...
How to Kill my Husband
Character: Juan - Ricardo's coworker
Dissatisfied wife has elaborate daydreams about murdering her husband....
La soldadera
Character: Isidro
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own....
Sucedió en Jalisco
Character:
Romantic conflicts set against a Mexican Revolution backdrop....
Huevos rancheros
Character: El Charro Colorado (segmento 'La virginidad en el río')
Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water....
The Dogs of War
Character: The Captain
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an iron-fisted despot. Once there, Jamie ends up in jail. After being brutally tortured, he is assisted by political prisoner Dr. Okoye and learns more about the plight of the country's people. After Jamie is freed, he becomes disillusioned with his wealthy employers and joins the Zangaro people on the revolutionary front....
The Illegal
Character: Felipe Leyva
Deceived over and over again by the whole world, a woman does not want to give up in the face of life's adversities....
Guerrero Negro
Character: Claudio Falcón Arriaga
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Serafín: La Película
Character: Thinker (voice)
In this blockbuster film from Mexico, live action, animation, fast-paced thrills and humor all combine in an irresistible tale the entire family will enjoy. The story revolves around lovable guardian angel Serafin who leads a group of youngsters in search of a magic star that will save a friend. Along the way, the young heroes learn that courage, loyalty and kindness can overpower even the darkest enemies. Join the quest and share each glorious moment!...
El complot mongol
Character:
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....
Sin Memoria
Character: Benitez
Beto wakes up in his apartment not knowing where or who he is. He does not remember anything from his past. On the floor is a passport in the name of Marcelo Peralta. Trying to regain memory and their own lives, reveals a number of elements that will be intertwined with each other in unexpected course of events, such as theft, fraud and passionate love....
Los Caciques
Character: Arrieta
A bad man holds the power of life and death over the inhabitants of a village... for no apparent reason... and he's fond of torturing them, tying them to crosses and leaving them to die. A cowboy with necromantic powers comes along and leads a rebellion to overthrow that reign of terror....
Amor perdóname
Character: Arturo Solano
Businessman Carlos meets Ana María in a Mexico City nightclub. He escorts her home, and makes a date for the next day. Ana María is actually a prostitute whose pimp, Arturo, thinks Carlos would be a good client, and urges her to be nice to him. They fall in love, and Carlos proposes marriage to her, indicating he must return to Puerto Rico soon....
Earthquake
Character: Chavez
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California....
Entre los dioses del desprecio
Character:
An expert on disarming alarms leaves prison to do a job....
Maine-Ocean Express
Character: Pedro de la Moccorra
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client)....
A Home of Our Own
Character: Police Captain
The story of Father William Wasson, who founded and operated a home for abandoned and orphaned children in Mexico....
Oceans
Character: Narrator (voice)
An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world....
Una vez, un hombre...
Character:
Young factory worker becomes apprentice to an alchemist, and he ends up going to the moon to repair equipment belonging to The Three Fates....
Vuelo 701
Character:
A plane blows up shortly after take-off during the credits. Then flashbacks detail the stories of all the passengers who booked flights on it....
Sangre en el Caribe
Character: Mario
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Trail of Death
Character: Alberto Villamosa
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein....
The Soul of Nigger Charley
Character: Sandoval
After the end of the Civil War, Charley fights against a group of Southern soldiers seeking to reignite the Confederacy....
Primero el dólar
Character:
In a spectacular manhunt, a band of outlaws race cross-country with a million dollars and a newly married couple. A dramatic story of greed and sexual passion for the possession of a large fortune and the love of a brave and beautiful woman....
El corrido del hijo desobediente
Character:
Father and son butt heads over a mutual girlfriend, mostly....
Treasure Island
Character: Mendoza
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures....
Walker
Character: Munoz
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat....
Novia, esposa y amante
Character:
Aspiring actress finds herself sidetracked from her goals when she gets romanced-up by her director. It's all downhill from there....
Ke arteko egunak
Character:
One day, Pedro Sansinenea left family, friends and country, an environment that drowned him. Twenty years later he returns to the Basque Country for several reasons, where he finds old hatreds, new conflicts and even a dramatic love story....
Angel in the Night
Character: Comandante Gallardo
A respectable family is shot by a gang brutally together. Only the mother survives the perfidious raid. They, although psychiatrist, finds the way back only laboriously in the everyday life. However, then you play the chance one of the members of a gang in the hands. A young fellow which does not finish on his part the recollections and takes up unsuspectingly the help of the doctor. This recognizes immediately that the illustrated case is more own to her. Now the woman knows only one: Revenge. ...
La marcha de Zacatecas
Character:
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much....
Longitud de Guerra
Character: Manuel Chávez
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976....
Su precio... unos dólares
Character: Sam
A woman hires four gunmen, Trinidad, Doc, Satan and The Renegade to rob a bank, but things don't work out as planned....
La plaza de Puerto Santo
Character:
The town's leading families decide to step down and let average citizens take responsibility for city government, from Mayor on down....
The Mask of Zorro
Character: Don Pedro
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter....
The Heart of the Night
Character: El Ciego (Domingo)
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society....
Moonlight Sonata
Character:
A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband....
Code... Death: Frontera Sur
Character: Dragon
Two American soldiers travel through the woods to stop the sinister colonel....
Fuera de la ley
Character:
Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, there are can-can girls....
Los dos carnales
Character:
Pre-teen, and his orphaned best-bud, live by their wits while his mom is serving a prison sentence....
Me olvidé de vivir
Character: Pedro
Julio Iglesias, internationally famous spanish singer, ends his Europe-wide tour in Paris. Before setting off to perform in America, decides to take a brief holiday in the quiet and peaceful Contadora Island in Panama. There, he meets Claudia, a german archaeology tour guide, for whom he'll start falling for, possibly jeopardizing the whole future of his concert tours....
Indio
Character: Jesse James
A greedy land developer steals the land from an Apache Indian tribe. His plan involves shooting most of the Apaches but an Apache warrior survives and gets revenge....
Filmmakers in Action
Character: Self
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)...
Lovers, Partners & Spies
Character: Duke
Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer....
The Bandits
Character: Priest
Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention....
The Mexican
Character: Mexican Policeman
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....
Mariana Mariana
Character: Carlos (adult)
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....
Ni solteros, ni casados
Character:
Young couple's honeymoon is interrupted by an emergency at the groom's workplace. How long will it take them before they can make conjugal nookie?...
El cachorro
Character:
El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths....
Secuestro sangriento
Character:
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¡Maten a Chinto!
Character: Don Chinto
During the Christmas season of 1944 in the Pacific coast port city of Manzanillo, hotel manager Chinto loses his temper and assaults "Inés," the homosexual cook. Inés complains to the police, but when several patrolmen come to arrest Chinto, he pulls a pistol and shoots them. The authorities soon lay seige to the hotel; Chinto's employees, oddly enough, follow his orders without question and assist him in barricading the hotel's doors and windows. The guests include U.S. consul Kraft and Pamela,...
Tombstone
Character: Priest
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town....
The Legend of a Mask
Character: López
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"...
Murder at El Meneo
Character: Don Manuel
In this crime parody, two fumbling detectives try to solve a murder without getting murdered, seduced, or outwitted in the process....
Siete muertes para el texano
Character:
When the Texan returns to the town, seeking to secure his fortune, the sheriff of the place asks the Texano to come to the aid of a dear friend. Seven frightful ones, on a pillaging expedition, have assaulted the cabana of a hunter and kidnapped his young daughter. When the Texan arrives there, he finds only the hunter who desperately asks for his aid. Both men initiate the ferocious persecution, until one by one they manage to end the seven strangers and also manage to save the beautiful young ...
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Character: President of Mexico
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico....
La silla vacía
Character:
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El segundo
Character: El Mayor
A Tejano rancher hires an oil worker (Hank Jacobs) to pick up an artifact of the ancient world which will bring him immortal life....
The Perfect Dictatorship
Character: Don Alejandro
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...
Corrupción y placer
Character: Augusto Alarcón
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