Álvaro Carcaño

Valentina's Wedding (2018)

Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico. ...

Pilgrim (2000)

A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail. ...

A Sweet Scent of Death (1999)

Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. ...

Luces de la noche (1998)

On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back. ...

Deep Crimson (1996)

Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder. ...

Solo (1996)

An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in the ...

Sin remitente (1995)

A lonely, aging postal worker finds himself the victim of a cruel practical joke in this pessimistic Mexican drama. The trouble begins when crotchety postman Andre begins complaining about his young neighbor Marianna's propensity for playing loud music eve ...

Midaq Alley (1995)

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeou ...

Los Talacheros (1995)

The Queen of the Night (1994)

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ...

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest (1993)

Propped 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 con ...

One Man’s War (1991)

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since ...

How Did I Come to Fall in Love With You? (1990)

The history of Los Bukis, from its humble beginning to its successful tour, going through problems and intrigues. ...

Viernes tragico (1990)

Solo para adúlteros (1989)

Two stories - "The mask model": An advertising executive, Mateo, gets involved with all the women he can, but he doesn't allow his wife to work. The company photographer is in love with her, so he takes advantage of her and tells her about her husband's in ...

The Blue Iguana (1988)

To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do the bidding of two crooked IRS agents. Tasked with recouping $20 million of laundered drug money, Holloway heads south of the border to the Blue Iguana, a ba ...

Firewalker (1986)

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold. ...

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie (1984)

The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there. ...

Yellowbeard (1983)

For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous ...

The In-Laws (1979)

In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to ...

Caminando pasos... caminando (1977)

In a community of the Matlatzinca ethnic group, a teacher tries to integrate the inhabitants into the struggle of a guerrilla group. ...

Meridiano 100 (1976)

The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted. ...

The Heist (1976)

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the ...

Faith, Hope and Charity (1974)

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy. ...

El águila descalza (1971)

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses. ...