Juan Ángel Martínez
Actor · 1939 – 1984 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Born in Mexico City in 1939, died there in 1984. He married journalist Marta de la Lama in 1976. He was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Actor in 1982 (Noche de Carnaval), 1985 (Luna de Sangre)
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Movie6.5DramaAgainst a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Under the Volcano
1984 · 107 votes
Movie7.8HistoryCrimeA 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.
Movie6.7DramaRecounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.
Apuntes
1976 · 3 votes
Movie6.9DramaThrillerWhen a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
Movie7.4WesternDramaJuan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
Juan Armenta El Repatriado
1976 · 11 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerAdventureAfter 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?
Movie6.3DramaCrimeFamily from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Espejismo de la ciudad
1976 · 3 votes
Movie7.3DramaCarrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
Movie5.7CrimeDramaLibrado, 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 in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976 · 10 votes
Movie5.0DramaPablo Rueda, a frustrated writer and artist, wanders through Mexico City in a labyrinth of dreams and memories that may or may not be those of his novels.
Movie7.1DramaComedyConstruction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
El Albañil
1975 · 13 votes
Movie6.0HistoryWarEl vals sin fin
1972 · 4 votes
Movie5.8After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaWarA 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.
Movie5.5DramaHistoryThis film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Movie6.7Mexican feature film
El gran relajo mexicano
1988 · 3 votes
Movie6.4WesternActionIn this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.
Los de abajo
1977 · 8 votes
Movie5.7HistoryDramaTowards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
Movie5.9ThrillerActionBased 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.
Longitud de Guerra
1976 · 7 votes
Movie7.2DramaComedyThe tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
El mil usos
1981 · 14 votes
Movie6.6DramaRomanceIntrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
Movie6.7Mexican feature film
Luna de sangre
1984 · 6 votes
Movie5.2ComedyDramaAgapito, 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.
El Quelite
1970 · 7 votes
Movie6.8DramaVicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...
Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
1985 · 6 votes