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Simón Blanco (1975)
Character: Capuleque
The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he eludes them.
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Carroña (1978)
Character: N/A
Horseback drama set in Mexico just before the Revolution.
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El diablo en persona (1982)
Character: Guadalupe Padilla
Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.
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Como gallos de pelea (1977)
Character: N/A
Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf.
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El juicio de los hijos (1971)
Character: Alberto
Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
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Dos de abajo (1983)
Character: El cucharas
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
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El desconocido (1974)
Character: N/A
Disenfranchised drifter finds a home, working on a young orphan woman's ranch.
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México de noche (1975)
Character: Julio
Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.
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Simplemente vivir (1970)
Character: N/A
Lawyer and his secretary enter into a midlife marriage, deal with complications coming from their adult children and the former partners of each.
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A Sangre y Fuego (1988)
Character: Rengo
Offbeat Mexican police officer must transport 3 convicts to a trial before a local drug kingpin kills them.
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El hombre sin miedo (1980)
Character: Domingo Aparicio
Young man avenges the murder of his family by representatives of a US oil company.
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El ausente (1972)
Character: N/A
Young man returns to his childhood home-town, planning to git the people that killed his father.
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Las figuras de arena (1970)
Character: N/A
Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.
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Hijos de tigre (1980)
Character: N/A
Two half-brothers are spiky and resentful toward each other, but they find common cause together when their father is murdered.
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Traigo la sangre caliente (1977)
Character: N/A
Footloose roving-gambler type marries a young woman against her father's wishes; she assimilates herself to his rootless, random lifestyle, but her family is working to track them down. Eventually, he decides to settle down and lead a more responsible life, home-and-family style... and then...
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Raza de viboras (1978)
Character: N/A
Mentally-ill eldest son creates havoc within an old-money farming family.
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Son tus perjúmenes mujer (1978)
Character: N/A
Marginal/unemployed dude with heart of gold tries to make life better for crippled niece, unapproachable girlfriend, others.
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La muerte del Palomo (1983)
Character: N/A
When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.
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¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal? (1977)
Character: José
Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...
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Policía de narcóticos (1986)
Character: Julian Carrera
The kidnapping and murder of an innocent child leads agents Julián Carrera "Valentín Trujillo" and Roberto Rojas to investigate an organization led by Antonio Farcas and the ruthless Albina who engage in organ trafficking and drugs.
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Cazador de Demonios (1983)
Character: Herrero
At the highest place in Tarahumaran mountain, a Shaman was brutally murdered. The investigation leads detective Aguilar to ask for help to a veterinarian and a priest, to find out that the crime is just the beginning of a series of brutal murders by a nahual (Wolfman)
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Perros salvajes (1984)
Character: N/A
A professional assassin (and widowed deadbeat dad set to soon remarry) decides to call it quits and go straight after one more job. Complications ensue, particularly with a persistent police detective.
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Las modelos de desnudos (1983)
Character: N/A
Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.
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Ratas de la ciudad (1986)
Character: Pedro
A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who live in a big city. They live in ghettos, in a world ful of violence, corruption and hate. They form gangs who attack and rob innocent victims, leaving a trail of terror behind.
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Más allá de la violencia (1971)
Character: N/A
The young pacifist Claudio is saddened to see some children playing war. He goes with a group of rebels who make fun of him and invite him to participate in a motorcycle race where the prize is a girl. Ál wins the race with the help of Rafael, the head of the band, and decides to buy to join the group, on a trip they meet with some hippies led by a psychologist who opposes drugs. Two of the gang members, Gabriel and Bernardo, attack one of the girls; the hippies in revenge violate Mimi and sa Julia, for which Bernardo kills a hippie. Claudio fights with him but Mimi intervenes and receives a stab aimed at Claudio. Ál recalls that Rafael was a brother and a lover of her. The police arrest the hippies and scold the parents for the behavior of the young people.
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El comerciante (1999)
Character: N/A
A pair of ghosts haunt a criminal businessman who had them killed as two police officers try to take his organization down.
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La banda del polvo maldito (1979)
Character: N/A
A man returns home only to find out his friend is an undercover drug enforcement agent who is trying to dismantle a criminal organization from within.
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La dinastía de los Quintero (1998)
Character: Juan Quintero
After the Quintero crime family's patriarch and leader is murdered, his children go straight. But other people won't let them retire in peace...
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Pistoleros Anonimos (1995)
Character: Getulio
Getulio (Valentin Trujillo) is a merciless drug trafficker and gunman who, in search of riches and power, involves himself with narcopolitics. The most crude assassinations are commited by the hands of Getulio. Nobody will ever discover him or know why.
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Violación (1989)
Character: Pepe Garrido
In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.
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El mochaorejas (1998)
Character: N/A
A bloodthirsty thief who cuts off the ears of his enemies must face against the vengeful wrath of two of his victims.
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El gran pillo (1960)
Character: Beto's neighbor boy
A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
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Acorralados (1976)
Character: N/A
Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.
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En Peligro De Muerte (1988)
Character: Victor
Nina is a reporter who works in a Latin American country at war when she finds herself trapped in the line of fire and hires a mercenary pilot named Victor to help her escape the place, but the plane is attacked and the journalist and pilot have to parachute off the plane. They fall into the sea but with a life raft they make it to the jungle, where they have to coexist and she learns to survive.
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Suerte te dé Dios (1961)
Character: N/A
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
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Muerte a sangre fría (1978)
Character: N/A
A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.
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El Bronco (1982)
Character: N/A
Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.
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Novios y amantes (1973)
Character: Juan Manuel
Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)
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Atrapados (1995)
Character: Perro
A wild police officer attempts to rescue a child from the hands of kidnappers.
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El hijo del palenque (1977)
Character: N/A
Man is murdered in a cockfighting dispute at the exact moment that his son is being born. The son grows up to avenge him.
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Cacería humana (1987)
Character: Rodrigo
A guy whose brother was killed and a waitress whose sister was killed run afoul on a psycho killer who gets his jollies running people off the road with his big truck. Overcompensation much?
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Mi fantasma y yo (1988)
Character: N/A
A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.
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Un Hombre Violento (1986)
Character: Julian Carrera
Bent on avenging the death of his gambling addicted father, Julian Carrera embarks on a violent spree with deadly consequences.
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Yo el ejecutor (1987)
Character: El Ejecutor
A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.
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El cafre (1986)
Character: Juanito Landa
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
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El Ansia de matar (1987)
Character: El mayor
This is a true story. Kicho and Maria come to Mexico looking for a better life but Maria gets killed by the guerrilla before she gets to sign the papers at the border. Kicho promises himself he will get revenge one day. At the same time a family of four gets kidnapped during a hunting trip by the same "red beret" guy who commands the guerrilla and left the father thinking hes dead. He is an experienced hunter and with Kichos help, who knows the woods very well, track down the guerrilla to rescue the rest of the family.
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Rage (1966)
Character: Jose
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
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La otra virginidad (1975)
Character: Adrián Romero
Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
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El Extra (1962)
Character: Chevo, hermano de Rosa
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
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Fieras en brama (1983)
Character: Pedro
Before being confirmed in the priesthood, a seminary student is ordered to go back out into the world for a year to confirm his vocation. It turns out that mundane activities hold a certain appeal for him.
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Tres de presidio (1980)
Character: N/A
A dishonest judge knowingly sentences three innocent men to prison. The three eventually escape and have only one thing on their minds--kill the judge.
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Perro callejero (1980)
Character: Perro
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
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Cuando quiero llorar no lloro (1973)
Character: Victorino Peralta
In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…
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Mexicano hasta las cachas (1979)
Character: Mauro
Mauro is your typical deep-heart Mexican man, a merrymaker always ready to sing a song and turn difficulties into a laugh. He's married, has a friend named Hilario, and a girlfriend named Rita, and a girlfriend named Carmen, and a girlfriend named Petra, and other unnamed girlfriends. His life was already troubled with jealous girlfriends fighting each other, when one of his lovers decides to kidnap his baby child from the cradle, to kill him. All turns to the good, in the end.
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