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Picardía mexicana (1978)
Character: N/A
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
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Los Caciques (1975)
Character: El Carretonero
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.
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El encuentro de un hombre solo (1974)
Character: Gabriel
Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.
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Pasajeros en Transito (1978)
Character: Rabo
A brave group of Mexicans embark on a risky mission to rescue a wounded guerrilla in Bolivia. This guerrilla, hoping to return to Mexico, is currently in the hands of friends who protect him and anxiously await the arrival of rescuers.
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Lo blanco, lo rojo y lo negro (1979)
Character: N/A
All kinds of crimes are being committed in a frontier settlement; if you blame it on the Chiricahuas afterwards, you can get away with anything. One Chiricahua hooks up with a white guy and a black woman who have been victimized by the status quo, and the three of them whoop some righteous-vengeance butt.
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Retorno a Aztlán (1990)
Character: N/A
When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a discarded tribute and makes his own journey to Aztlán to appease his rulers.
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Albur de amor (1980)
Character: N/A
Romantic triangle on the hacienda. Ends badly for all concerned.
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Los doce malditos (1974)
Character: N/A
Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.
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Tras el horizonte (1984)
Character: The pursuer
A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too
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El principio (1973)
Character: Santos
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
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La venganza de Maria (1983)
Character: N/A
Arms/drug smuggler wants Maria to take care of his puppies... but he also has reasons to kill off most of her menfolk family members, one or two at a time.
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La casa del Sur (1976)
Character: Cosme
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
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Cazador De Asesinos (1983)
Character: N/A
A retired police officer looks for revenge after his family is attacked by a gang of criminals.
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La puerta falsa (1977)
Character: N/A
Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.
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Cadena perpetua (1979)
Character: Cotorra
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.
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Aquellos años (1974)
Character: Gen. Tomás Mejía
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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El Norte (1983)
Character: El Puma the Soldier
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.
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La Chèvre (1981)
Character: Club's doorman (uncredited)
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.
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Le Magnifique (1973)
Character: Benson
A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna (1978)
Character: Tilicuate
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
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Ruby Cairo (1992)
Character: Bank Teller #1
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
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Longitud de Guerra (1976)
Character: Chabolé
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.
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El Quelite (1970)
Character: (uncredited)
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.
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A paso de cojo (1980)
Character: N/A
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
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La isla de los hombres solos (1974)
Character: N/A
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
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Es mi vida (1982)
Character: Preso
Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison.
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Character: Bad Hombre
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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El águila descalza (1971)
Character: Moctezuma, paciente Manicomio
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.
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El elegido (1977)
Character: Valentin
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
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Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso (1975)
Character: Pedro
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.
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