
Emilio Fernández
Director · 1903 – 1986 · Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo, March 26, 1904 – August 6, 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria, which won the Palme d'Or award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions of Mexico and also in Hollywood.
Movies23
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
Movie7.2WesternDramaPat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · 481 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 · 439 votes
Movie6.1WesternActionChico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
Return of the Seven
1966 · 316 votes
Movie6.3ActionAdventureA bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Breakout
1975 · 112 votes
Movie6.5DramaAgainst a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Under the Volcano
1984 · 107 votes
Movie6.8WesternActionAn ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
The War Wagon
1967 · 232 votes
Movie6.4WesternA man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.
The Appaloosa
1966 · 76 votes
Movie5.5ComedyDramaThe two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have boyfriend troubles, and all the women band together to vote their own representative into City Hall as Mayor.
Arriba Michoacán
1987 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceAn American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.
Flying Down to Rio
1933 · 75 votes
Movie4.5ActionThrillerAn adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle.
Treasure of the Amazon
1985 · 37 votes
Movie7.2DramaRomanceA defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
The Night of the Iguana
1964 · 174 votes
Movie5.9ActionAdventure16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!
Cruz Diablo
1934 · 7 votes
- Movie10.0Romance
In France, opera star Enrico Baroni is tired of his mistress Pompom. After a performance, Enrico goes to a cabaret with his manager, Muldoni, and some friends. When Pompom arrives, Enrico leaves the cabaret with his servant, Fresco. Hearing music nearby, Enrico and Fresco discover a band of gypsies.
La buenaventura
1934 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DramaAn innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
A Covenant with Death
1967 · 13 votes
Movie6.2WesternAdventureMexican Revolution: a small squadron of insurgents are chosen to trek to US border and pick up an arms shipment.
Almas rebeldes
1937 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaFirst all Mexican sound film. Story is based on the ancient customs and legends of the fisherfolk as they come into conflict with the exploitation of agents sent by "big business" from the cities.
Janitzio
1935 · 7 votes
Movie5.8Romantic triangles, jealousy and duels on horseback at a hacienda.
Adios Nicanor
1937 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaWesternA crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
The Reward
1965 · 4 votes
Movie8.0DramaWesternNorthern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
Movie6.3DramaPaloma is a young blonde indigenous woman who arrives in a coastal town and goes to the local cantina to murder Danilo Zeta in cold blood. But the young woman is captured and, upon being tried in the public square of Puerto San José, she refuses to speak. In prison, after giving birth to a child, Judge Justo and her wife Amalia encourage her to tell them her past.
Paloma herida
1963 · 6 votes
Movie6.5ThrillerDramaTwo men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other con man escapes from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.
Erótica
1979 · 71 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryA behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).
Notes from Under the Volcano
1984 · 1 votes
Series4
TV8.1CrimeDramaColumbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Columbo
1971 · 858 votes
TV7.5DramaAction & AdventureLa traición
1984 · 2 votes
TV7.7Action & AdventureDramaThe adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
Kung Fu
1972 · 241 votes
- TVDocumentary
Yotam Ottolenghi travels to four of the Mediterranean Sea's most beautiful islands to experience the culinary flavors and secrets that symbolize these culturally distinctive regions.