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Nosotros los jóvenes (1966)
Character: Julio Jr.
Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.
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Las Troyanas (1963)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
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Sexo y crimen (1970)
Character: N/A
Industrialist blackmails unfaithful wife and her lover into helping him fake his own death.
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La noche violenta (1970)
Character: N/A
Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
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Violeta (1997)
Character: N/A
Violeta is a Cuban prostitute who tells her tempestuous life story to a young male journalist. Her first lover was a revolutionary killed by government soldiers. She fled to New York, where she had an affair with a famous American actor. After he gets her pregnant and dumps her, she sells her story to the tabloids in revenge. The revenge escalates - he has his friends rape her, and she slashes his face, putting an end to his career. Back in Cuba, the older Violeta relies on foreign customers to make ends meet.
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Pelearán diez rounds (1991)
Character: N/A
When Bobby Terón decides to return to the ring after retiring as a boxer, he faces opposition from his wife. While his wife believes that Bobby is not fit to fight, his manager Hernandez assures him that the boxer will regain his prestige. Hernandez arranges a fight, only this time he is not willing to submit to an unfair decision like the one that ended his pupil's career and decides to play with the same weapons.
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La mentira (1970)
Character: Demetrio de Santelmo
A man, torn inside by two passions, falls for the woman against whom he sought revenge, believing her to be responsible for the death of his brother.
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Oficio de tinieblas (1981)
Character: Leonardo
Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
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El monasterio de los buitres (1973)
Character: Prior
In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide.
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Estrategia matrimonio (1967)
Character: Raúl
Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.
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Olimpiada en México (1969)
Character: Narrator
Documentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1999.
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Viento negro (1965)
Character: Jorge Iglesias
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
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Almohada para tres (1969)
Character: Mario Lozano
Bride sleeps another guy on her wedding night by mistake, and he and the groom spend 90 minutes arguing over which one she belongs to.
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Rosario (1971)
Character: Gabriel
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
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La maestra inolvidable (1969)
Character: Luis Piñeyro
Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
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Corona de lágrimas (1968)
Character: Fernando Chavero
Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
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El escapulario (1968)
Character: Pedro
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
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La buscona (1970)
Character: Julio
A young composer falls in love with a prostitute who is paid by his father to seduce him, but she doesn't love him.
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Las Visitaciones del Diablo (1968)
Character: Lisardo
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
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María de mi Corazón (1979)
Character: Anfitrión de la fiesta
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
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Las vírgenes locas (1972)
Character: Cipriano Altamira
Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
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