Alejandro Parodi

El misterio del Trinidad (2003)

The strange relation between two brothers. ...

De ida y vuelta (2001)

After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, hi ...

His Most Serene Highness (2000)

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory ...

La mujer del puerto (1996)

Perla, 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 sordi ...

The Beginning and the End (1994)

The 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 o ...

Ángel de fuego (1992)

The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus ...

El hijo de Lamberto Quintero (1990)

Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film. ...

Dying in the Gulf (1990)

The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy ...

Romelia's Secret (1988)

The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides. ...

Difficult Days (1988)

Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants. ...

Living Is What Matters (1987)

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. T ...

Lamberto Quintero (1987)

Zapata en Chinameca (1987)

Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata. ...

The Realm of Fortune (1986)

Poor 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. ...

Astucia (1986)

A 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. ...

Die Frau des Reporters (1986)

In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop ...

Viaje al paraíso (1985)

Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong. ...

Violent Stories (1985)

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film. ...

Death Squad (1985)

Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge. ...

Encuentro con la muerte (1984)

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Knock Out (1984)

Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past. ...

Alsino and the Condor (1982)

Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, cli ...

The Widow of Montiel (1979)

Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. ...

Call Me Mike (1979)

After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels. ...

The Year of the Plague (1978)

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic ...

Cuartelazo (1977)

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The f ...

Las Poquianchis (1976)

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants. ...

Letters from Marusia (1975)

Chronicle 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 ...

The Fight with the Panther (1975)

Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused. ...

Those Years (1974)

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico ...

El principio (1973)

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa's revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolesce ...

Los amigos (1968)

Ambition, social climbing and insincerity shape the emotional climate among a circle of young professionals launching their careers. ...

Volantín (1963)

The story of the difficult life of itinerant artists in Mexico and their futile dreams of happiness. Marin's father, a traveling artist, dreamed of saving money and sending his daughter to school. But his earnings were too small, barely enough to cover the ...

Santo in the Hotel of Death (1963)

Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and gi ...

The Infernal Coffin (1962)

An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno. ...

El fistol del diablo IV (1962)

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo. ...

Servicio secreto (1962)

Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's ...

Thursday night (1962)

A group of friends plan to steal a companýs payroll, they succeed, but they have a fatal accident in the getaway car. ...

Mis abuelitas... no más! (1961)

Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications! ...

Mujeres engañadas (1961)

Pepito as del volante (1957)

Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete. ...

El buen ladrón (1957)

Know what this is about? ...

Good Love (1957)

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes. ...

El hombre que quiso ser pobre (1956)

A poor man sells his watch to buy a lottery ticket, advised by a friend, and wins the jackpot. ...

La mujer X (1955)

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son. ...

Venganza en el circo (1954)

Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt. ...

Prefiero a tu papá (1952)

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends. ...

Once Upon a Time in Durango (2010)

In the plains of Durango, the old west town still exists where Mexican and foreign westerns used to be filmed. Old Antonio takes care of the place. One day, Gabriel Navárez, a 13-year-old boy from a small nearby community, secretly gets into the old west ...