Alfredo Gurrola
Director · b. 1943 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Alfredo Gurrola González was born in Mexico City on August 11, 1943. In 1969 he made his first short film in 8 mm Tercer Suspiro, with which he won the Luis Buñuel prize in I Independent Film Competition. At the same time, he starts as an assistant theater director and actor.
Movies6
Movie5.8General Argumedo refuses to disband his troops at the end of the Mexican Revolution because he doesn't trust the new regime.
Persecución y muerte de Benjamín Argumedo
1980 · 6 votes
Movie5.9MusicAdventureAfter witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
El Cometa
1999 · 8 votes
Movie5.4ActionRoving gambler teams up with a small-town priest to break the bank at a local casino that's sucking the townspeople dry.
El 7 Vidas
1980 · 7 votes
Movie7.3This documentary begins searching for the whereabouts of the films that Servando Gonzalez did about the events of October 2nd 1968 in Tlatelolco, research that later will deal with the fire of March 24th 1982 at the National Film Archives, which destroyed a lot of important part of the footage from Mexico.
Los Rollos Perdidos
2012 · 3 votes
Movie5.0Conviced that the aliens have taken over the Earth, Andres locks his family under the basement.
Movie5.7DramaAn unnamed man goes to a hotel to commit suicide with pills while listening to songs by Marlene Dietrich. But that act that seems to trigger the mere memory of places and experiences before dying, suddenly merges with other characters and dramatic experiences, which give life to a limit work, of desperate, almost intolerable courage, obstinate in dismantling all institutional discourses of the history of Mexico, without ceasing to use extraordinarily all possible cinematographic resources.
Recodo de purgatorio
1975 · 3 votes