Gabriel Retes
Actor · 1947 – 2020 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
José Ignacio Gabriel Jorge Retes Balzaretti (March 25th, 1947 – April 20th, 2020) was a Mexican film director, writer, producer, and actor. His 1977 film Paper Flowers was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1979 film Broken Flag was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1999 film A Sweet Scent of Death was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
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Movie4.0DramaFelino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film.
Movie6.3ComedyUlises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportunity offered to him to direct a film, without knowing that it is foing to be a porn movie. Gudelio Medina, photographer and Ulysses's old mate, convinces him to do it. All participants in the film, start, unaware of the main porn star gender, making room for hilarious entanglements, but once committed to the project they must discover how to shoot a porn movie and in the process, just maybe, discover love.
Cómo Filmar Una XXX
2017 · 22 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaDuring a business trip, a married man (José) has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message "Welcome to the world of AIDS". Later, his wife Maria, unaware of the situation, makes love to her husband when he is drunk. The consequences of the contagion are devastating. José and María find the support of a group of filmmakers who decide to make a film of their story.
Bienvenido-Welcome
1995 · 11 votes
Movie6.0DramaCrimeRamón is secretly in love with Adela. One morning, he discovers her corpse among the oat fields
Movie3.4Keta is a professional makeup artist with a big butt and large thighs, but she also has big dreams. The truth is that Keta with her overweight, her addiction to marijuana and her pink hair can not get a job anywhere, so she ends up as a drug dealer handing out goods to her neighbor - who is addicted to all kinds of painkillers-, to an actress of soap operas as schizophrenic as a cocaine addict; also going through a swinger couple, a prude housewife, a not so prude nun and a host of characters that will surely make more than one viewer is reflected.
El viaje de Keta
2018 · 5 votes
Movie4.5ComedyDramaRagtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Movie5.6DramaHistoryChronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Movie6.6ThrillerDramaA gritty tale of survival set against a city ripe with violence and corruption. The Naked City tells the tale of Alfonso and Aurelia, who with their infant daughter flee the scene of a traffic accident they inadvertently caused, leaving several people seriously injured. On the run, they check into a hotel in a different part of the town. By coincidence, or fate, the hotel is about to be attacked by a violent gang, who resume to hold everyone hostage, moving room to room raping, killing and brutalizing the guests. When it is turn to visit with the young couple it is their time to decide to succumb to the violence, or fight back.
Movie6.5DramaAmbitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.
Lo mejor de Teresa
1977 · 6 votes
Movie8.0DramaAfter a life full of guilt for having been an executioner, Abel Carbajal receives a visit from Ángela, a young woman seeking revenge against him. Unknowingly, both will find their own redemption.
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
Movie6.2DramaAs a teenage orphan from Chira Island searches for his godfather on the mainland, his innocent memory of childhood is gradually replaced by an unsettling reality upon learning the truth about his origins.
Puerto Padre
2014 · 5 votes
Movie6.2DramaDamian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After Damian accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks atonement and travels alone to Mexico, both to find peace and to reconnect with his family roots. Assisted by local guide Arce, Damian locates his grandmother's resting place and searches for redemption through a long trek in the arid wilderness of his ancestral land.
Movie5.4ThrillerCrimeThe story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
Triángulo
1972 · 9 votes
Movie5.0DramaPriest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
El cielo y tú
1971 · 6 votes
Movie6.1DramaThrillerThe inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
Movie6.8DramaActionThe film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezuelans found themselves as virtual prisoners. As the coup starts and fighting takes place from a military base which is in the center of the city's most affluent areas, with both luxury high rises and palatial mansions. The area of La Carlota provides a wealth of very interesting, often flamboyant and typical characters of the Latin America upper middle and upper classes. They are among the most affected. Various vignettes in these different characters' homes are developed. These people's reactions, lifestyles, vices, and humanity come out in a very honest fashion under duress.
Movie6.0DramaAlberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.
Movie6.3ThrillerRomanceA love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threatening conditions. The story of a stubborn journalist who undertakes the clarification and bringing to justice of the heinous murder of one student forty years later represents a dedicated effort to force a country from denial to reconciliation and closure of tragic social and political events in a country´s history. A nation cannot allow official cover-ups that seek to delete and erase from the collective memory events that prevent a nation´s march towards social justice.
Borrar de la Memoria
2010 · 6 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDramaWhile attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
Movie3.9ComedyHilarious romantic comedy which main essence is based on the maturation process that young people face when entering their thirties. When their options come to settling down and starting a family or pursuing and achieving what they've always dreamed of, even though this could become a risk for their economic and emotional stability.
Movie5.0DramaThese women think, due to her social position, that they live in a “bubble of soap”. Nevertheless, when this mirage explodes, they remain in the air, in a free fall. Based on a novel by Ricardo Garibay.
Mujeres en el acto
2006 · 2 votes
Movie5.0DramaBecause of a millionaire fraud, a man is condemned to house arrest, and the only place where he can serve sentence is his mother’s house, affected with Alzheimer disease. The arrival of the man disrupts the life of the people who live with the elder woman. With turns of the screw, the story feels dramatic, but it also contains certain amount of irony. It talks about human and family relations with a total absence of violence.
Movie5.4DramaMysteryA motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.