Ernesto Yáñez
Actor · 1946 – 2020 · Ciudad de México, México
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Movie5.7DramaEvery Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
Movie5.3DramaPoor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Movie7.1FantasyComedyAgent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.
Pastorela
2011 · 54 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceAfter her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting her revenge.
Movie7.7DramaThe film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Movie5.7HorrorA journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
Curandero
2005 · 15 votes
Movie6.0DramaCrimeAfter returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a nightmare.
Movie5.0DramaSet in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship
Movie4.6DramaIn a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
Movie6.1ComedyDramaA woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
Movie7.3ComedyJuan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spectacular act of beheading that it could again return it to its glory years. But without any fifth in the bag and with time running out to build a machine is forced to rob a real guillotine without this weighs a terrible curse.
Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez
2009 · 9 votes
Movie3.6Science FictionActionIn the city of Latinopolis a man named Sacro is hired by a powerful company to carry out a very dangerous mission with the help of Caos, an angel hunter. Meanwhile in another part of the city Susana and Miguel, two Alter-globalization supporters are looking for their sister Susana, who mysteriously disappeared. In their search they will cross paths with an assorted mix of characters that are lost somehow in this unbelievable but true story of craziness and love.
Movie6.8ThrillerDramaRodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Movie5.5Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.
Movie6.0DramaPerla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
Movie6.0DramaThrillerA filmmaker spends his final days with his wife at his family's secluded hacienda.
Polvo De Luz
1989 · 3 votes
Movie3.5DramaHistoryPropped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Movie5.8ComedyActionNon-conformist advertising executive pressured to toe the line and behave.
Como tú me has deseado
2006 · 5 votes
Movie4.4When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.
Bandido
2004 · 8 votes
Movie6.3DramaWesternA landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Astucia
1986 · 6 votes
Movie2.5Simón, el gran varón 2
2004 · 4 votes
Movie6.3DramaMysteryA taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town.
Movie6.7DramaOver the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the alcoholism and debauchery of their older son Jamie. As day turns into night, guilt, anger, despair, and regret threaten to destroy the family.
Viaje por una larga noche
1977 · 3 votes
Movie5.0The repossession of a ranch because of the inability to pay off a mortgage causes a confrontation between two great friends: Valente and Dagoberto. As the last chance to save his patrimony, Valente robs a bank. Dagoberto is ordered to catch him and enforce the law. In the chase, old quarrels between them surface. These friends must face off in a duel under the red sunset of Iturbide, Nuevo León.
Crepúsculo Rojo
2010 · 2 votes