Tamara Garina
Actor · 1901 – 1979 · Tbilisi, Georgia
Movies24
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
Movie8.0ComedyDramaA woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
María Isabel
1967 · 42 votes
Movie6.4WesternDramaIn 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.
A Man Called Horse
1970 · 242 votes
Movie8.1DramaA couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
Movie6.9HorrorMysteryWhen four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
Movie6.8RomanceAdventureFando and his partially paralysed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar.
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.
Movie7.3DramaRomanceFirst of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity.
Tajimara
1965 · 3 votes
Movie6.4CrimeMysteryA widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
A Life in the Balance
1955 · 9 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaConfronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Movie7.2ComedyPragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.
Estrategia matrimonio
1967 · 6 votes
Movie5.8Based on a true story, it tells the story of opera singer Paco Sierra, who, realizing that the life of an artist does not provide him with enough money, plans and carries out a terrorist act: He assures the passengers of an airplane that he has placed a bomb.
¡Pum!
1981 · 5 votes
Movie4.6WesternActionA man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.
The Desperate Mission
1969 · 7 votes
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
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.
Movie5.2HorrorActionAlso known as Santo vs. the She-Wolves
Movie5.5Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.
Movie6.6DramaAdventureA pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
Maten al León
1977 · 10 votes
Movie5.5WesternThrillerA gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
1974 · 8 votes
Movie6.8Young woman looking for a rich husband, sets her sights on a very pious and old-fashioned neighbor.
Movie5.8DramaComedyShmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
El águila descalza
1971 · 5 votes
Movie6.8MysteryCrimeA successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?
Morir de madrugada
1980 · 6 votes
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
Movie6.3DramaThree episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Pubertinaje
1978 · 3 votes