Chano Urueta
Director · 1904 – 1979 · Chihuahua - Mexico
Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra Rodríguez (Mineral de Cusihuiriachi, Chihuahua, Mexico, February 24, 1895-Mexico City, March 23, 1979), better known as Chano Urueta, was a film director, actor and writer who stood out since the first half of the 1930s as one of the most gifted adapters of great works of universal literature.
Movies19
Movie7.6WesternAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
The Wild Bunch
1969 · 1.4K votes
Movie7.1ActionCrimeAn American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974 · 436 votes
Movie5.5AdventureDramaSet in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
The Wrath of God
1972 · 30 votes
Movie5.2AdventureActionChanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a gang that extracts uranium.
Chanoc
1967 · 6 votes
Movie5.2ActionWesternAn 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.
Movie5.4ComedyAfter falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
Once Upon a Scoundrel
1974 · 7 votes
Movie5.7Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
El hermano Capulina
1970 · 15 votes
Movie6.4WarActionThis is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Emiliano Zapata
1970 · 11 votes
Movie5.6Five inmates escape Death Row and hole up with their women in the ruins of an abandoned hacienda.
Furias bajo el cielo
1971 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaIn a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.
Una luz en mi camino
1939 · 6 votes
Movie7.4ActionCrimeGunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
Todo Por Nada
1969 · 7 votes
Movie6.4WesternFederal-agent/cowboy battles crime
El pueblo del terror
1970 · 5 votes
Movie5.6WesternBilly 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 involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.
Super Colt 38
1969 · 5 votes
Movie7.4HorrorMysteryA movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Movie5.9Elderly sea captain charms and delights an audience of children, telling them stories about the high adventures he experienced when he was young.
El capitán Mantarraya
1970 · 15 votes
Movie4.7ThrillerHorrorA world-famous opera singer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting.
Movie7.4ActionAdventureArchaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different motivations: from the mere archaeological find to the destruction of humanity.
Movie7.5DramaWesternA smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them.
La Choca
1974 · 24 votes
- Movie6.0
Missing-presumed-dead wife reappears after husband has remarried.
Dos esposas en mi cama
1970 · 5 votes