Carlos Chávez
Oyuncu · Mexico City, Mexico
Originally from the Tepito neighborhood in Mexico City, in the film Canoa, the actor played the role of Miguel Flores Cruz and was part of several films including "Las razones del corazón", "El carnaval de Sodoma", "La virgen de la lujuria", "Azul Celeste", among others. He said that "Canoa" was one of the strongest films in which he participated alongside actors he considered idols. He was part of the film "Chin Chin el Teporocho", based on the book by Armando Ramírez, and in which he connected with his origins in the "Barrio bravo" of Tepito. During an interview with the YouTube channel La Tranza de Tepito in 2015, the actor assured that he has sometimes left the area, but that he usually returns to it because he feels it is part of him and of his formation as an individual.
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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.
Film7.8TarihSuçA group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Film5.3DramPoor 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.
Film6.8DramFantastikIn Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?
Film6.1DramSuçTwo wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
Film5.8DramBetween chargers, noise and improvisedly placed furniture, a couple experiences a violent marital crisis, ignoring that they are observed by many characters that will soon face them with their own demons. Inspired by a work by Vicente Leñero, Gabriel Retes orchestrates a portrait without concessions of the hell of the marriage institution and love chaos, made in video format in 1990 and completed by the filmmaker more than a decade later.
La mudanza
1990 · 4 votes
Film4.6DramIn 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.
Film6.7KomediThe funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
¿Qué haremos con papá?
1966 · 3 votes
Film6.0DramRomantikIn a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
Film6.1DramRogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
Chin Chin el teporocho
1976 · 8 votes
Film6.6GerilimDramA 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.
Film5.3La otra cara de Pedro Navaja
2000 · 3 votes
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 ...
Film5.6DramA group of women take the law in their own hands after a friend has been raped and killed by some masked men.
La Ley de las Mujeres
1995 · 5 votes
Film6.1KomediDramA woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
Film7.5GerilimDramReturning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
Film6.0The unveiling of a statue honoring Emiliano Zapata becomes the site in which the demands of a struggling city are manifested through the speech of a young boy.