Enrique Pontón

Los amantes frios (1978)

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes. ...

El elegido (1977)

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play. ...

Rapine (1975)

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident. ...

El valle de los miserables (1975)

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, ...

La disputa (1974)

The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots. ...

Capulina vs. the Mummies (1973)

A taxi driver winds up working as a butler for a scientist who is trying to revive mummies. ...

What Color is the Wind? (1973)

Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation. ...

El bueno para nada (1973)

Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes. ...

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo (1972)

Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book. ...

The Desire in Autumn (1972)

The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom she can share the monies, she invites her best friend, Clara, to move into her home and enjoy the wealth with ...

Jesús, María y José (1972)

The founder of Christianity and his sacred family. ...

¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza! (1972)

Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels. ...

Jesús, el niño Dios (1971)

Secreto de confesión (1971)

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower. ...

El ardiente deseo (1971)

Adulterous love triangle ends in tragedy. ...

Departamento de soltero (1971)

Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities. ...

Friar Juan (1970)

A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer. ...

Las golfas (1969)

A gaggle of sex-workers face everyday problems and gradually find their way back to respectable wife-and mother-hood. ...

Veinticuatro horas de vida (1969)

Two cabdrivers accidentally get caught up in criminal/gang activity. ...

The Prodigal Son (1968)

Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter. ...

Cautivo del mas allá (1968)

Vicky loves Ricardo but Ricardo loves Barbara. So, Vicky goes to a gypsy witch who convinces her she must make a pact with Satan in order to cast an effective love spell on Ricardo. After Vicky gives her body and soul to the Dark One, she engages with Rica ...

Semáforo en rojo (1964)

A gang of professional thieves plans how to rob the jewelry store in Bogotá and escape, not imagining that death surrounds them and all because of a red light. ...

El milagro de sal (1958)

The difficult conditions in which salt mine workers work constitute the framework in which the intrigues develop. Both among the bosses and managers, as well as among the miners, there are good and bad. For this reason, an exploration inside the mine, a ch ...