
Jaime Fernández
Actor · 1927 – 2005 · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Nicolás Jaime Fernández Reyes (December 6, 1933), better known simply as Jaime Fernández, was a Mexican actor and union leader. Over his career, he won 3 Silver Ariel awards — the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar — including one for what is arguably his best-known role, playing Friday, the protagonist's associate in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe. He appeared in over 200 films and served as the general secretary of the National Association of Actors (ANDA) for 11 years.
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Movie5.5ComedyDramaCatita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952 · 4 votes
Movie6.7DramaLife in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
Movie7.0WesternLeon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
Movie6.3AdventureDramaThe titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.
Robinson Crusoe
1954 · 99 votes
Movie5.0One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
Lauro Puñales
1969 · 5 votes
Movie6.6WesternEl Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.
Movie7.0DramaCrimeA tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Movie6.3DramaProduced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
Talpa
1956 · 7 votes
Movie6.3ActionCrimeA police commander is framed for murder and he must find the real killer.
Noches violentas
2000 · 3 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceA medical researcher arrives at a cursed island and falls in love with an indigenous priestess.
Zonga, el ángel diabólico
1957 · 8 votes
Movie6.3ActionLa Fuga de los Pérez
1995 · 3 votes
Movie6.7Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
El norteño
1963 · 3 votes
Movie6.4DramaA 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.
Movie5.0ActionHe swears to avenge his brother's death and will not rest until he fulfills his oath, even if it costs him his own life.
Oro rojo
2005 · 1 votes
Movie4.2ActionHorrorA professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Movie6.4Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
El corrido de María Pistolas
1964 · 5 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceA story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
Movie6.7DramaAdventureA peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Movie3.8HorrorActionA nun is possessed by the devil, she sneaks out during the night using her beauty to make men fall in love with her and then brutally murder them. The nuns of the convent began to feel the presence of the devil and enlist the help of a detective to put an end to her possession.
Muertes a medianoche
2001 · 5 votes
Movie6.9DramaAdventureWith the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
- Movie7.0Drama
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
Movie6.5DramaHistoryBefore the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
Movie5.4A shadowy adversary emerges, forcing The Scarlet Fox into a dangerous game of wits, swords, and courage in this action-packed adventure.
Movie6.1ActionMusicTwo rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.
El alazán y el rosillo
1966 · 7 votes
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TV7.0DramaVen conmigo
1975 · 1 votes