Jorge Humberto Robles
Oyuncu · 1943 – 1983 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Studying in high school at UNAM, he climbed onto his first stages. Then he tried to study Economics, while working as an employee in a furniture store. In 1968 he worked as a journalist in the newspaper El Día, and then in the AMEX agency, dissolved by the government after starting a strike. He returned to acting at the Teatro Del Bosque and at the Jiménez Rueda, put in a greater number of daily hours as a host at the station Radio Universidad. Rafael Corkidi hired him for a film that Carlos Illescas was writing: Angeles y querubines. Jorge Humberto Robles had his first starring role there. His work partner: Helena Rojo Around 1974 he worked as an actor in the Theater Company of the Universidad Veracruzana. In Xalapa he took part in few plays: he began to have problems with his eyesight and that year he lost an eye. -"What happened to Borges is happening to me," he used to joke very intimately, without petulance, without exaggerating the comment, "Anyway, there is not much to see". Then, shortly after, came the project of making a film and he and his friends made it, creating an independent work unit, which resulted in Bandera rota, directed by Gabriel Retes. On November 1, 1983, despite his success as a theater actor, he shot himself in the right temple.
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Film5.8AksiyonMaceraA former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.
The Evil That Men Do
1984 · 120 votes
Film6.9DramGerilimWhen a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
Film5.8FantastikDramControversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
Film5.1DramKorkuMexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
1975 · 29 votes
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Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere'
1987 · 3 votes
Film6.0DramAdriana del Rio, actriz
1979 · 3 votes
Film5.1DramFantastikSnippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
Film5.7This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.
Figuras de la pasión
1985 · 3 votes
Film5.7Mexican feature film
Tango
1976 · 3 votes
Film6.1DramGerilimThe 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.
Film4.4DramAfter a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.
Film5.7TarihDramTowards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
Film5.4AileDramMythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.
Film5.7The Mexican Revolution in the state of Sonora.
Guerrillero Del Norte
1983 · 3 votes
Film5.9DramFantastikAnapu is the people's hero. He extracts water from a rock, befriends, and baptizes it, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, while tracking a fascist military.
Film6.4GizemDramA tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.
Film5.9GerilimAksiyonBased on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Longitud de Guerra
1976 · 7 votes
Film6.0DramGerilimA filmmaker spends his final days with his wife at his family's secluded hacienda.
Polvo De Luz
1989 · 3 votes
Film6.0DramTarihA plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
Film5.8Semilla de muerte
1980 · 4 votes
Film4.6WesternKorkuDave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the satanic mark on her body. He was caught and was prepared for hanging. At moment before hanging Dave uses his supernatural power and makes a local shoe-shiner his accomplice. While running from sheriff Dave was injured and after some time dies. But before his death Dave gives this medallion to shoe-shiner Oscar and asks him to take revenge in the name of Satan. So he does it and also continue to rape and kill women never forgetting to leave satanic mark on their bodies...
Film4.1Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.
Peregrina
1974 · 7 votes
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The lives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the astronomer Carlos de Singüenza y Góngora intersect with those of a mysterious monk through a series of monologues and soliloquies in an internal struggle between their passions and clerical dogma.
Constelaciones
1980 · 5 votes