Fernando Yapur
Actor
Movies23
Movie7.9ComedyDramaAfter a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
Movie4.7WesternAdventureMinister with four virgin daughters inherits a bordello. The land contains a silver mine and the corrupt sheriff tries to force them to leave.
Movie8.1ComedyDramaLopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Movie5.7AdventureIn 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Seven Cities of Gold
1955 · 9 votes
Movie4.6ComedyRomanceSex-worker tries to pose as a society matron long enough to receive a visit from her daughter, the daughter's fiancé and his family.
Buenas y con... movidas
1983 · 9 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaMateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Movie7.2ComedyCantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
Movie7.9ComedyFollows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
El patrullero 777
1978 · 126 votes
Movie4.0ComedyA sophisticated device falls into Hermelinda's hands and when the Soviets and Arabs try to retrieve it, an international witchcraft war breaks out.
Agente 0013 - Hermelinda Linda 2
1986 · 4 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeFamily from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Espejismo de la ciudad
1976 · 3 votes
Movie6.3DramaA useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Movie5.3ActionDramaNeutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.
Movie4.6ActionHorrorTourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
Movie6.7ThrillerDramaPublic health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Seis días para morir
1967 · 11 votes
Movie5.8AdventureComedyA couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
Pilotos de la muerte
1962 · 9 votes
Movie4.8DramaThrillerNewly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.
Movie6.1ComedyScience FictionIn Olympus the Gods decide to exterminate humanity, after deliberating one of the gods advocates not to exterminate those who live in Mexico, which in the year 2000 is a paradise where all calamities have been extinguished.
Movie3.6ActionAdventureSanto goes up against a mad scientist and a ranch owner who are turning immigrants into mind controlled zombies.
Movie5.9ComedyFantasyTwo ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
Movie7.7AdventureKalimán: Women want to be with him, men want to be him! That old adage fits this character. The superhero was huge in Mexico, the subject of comic books and a radio show that was as popular as the Shadow's was in the States. He's a very philosophical, peace loving man who uses his brains and heart as well as brawn in his capers.
- Movie6.7
Young woman's parents don't supervise her activities closely enough; she ends up going to a beatnik nightclub and dancing the twist and getting raped.
Cuando los hijos se pierden
1963 · 3 votes
Movie5.3AdventureActionSanto takes on Magnus, who has taken control of television stations to broadcast kidnappings and other such criminal activity.
Movie6.8DramaFictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Cuando me vaya
1954 · 6 votes