Ernesto Yáñez

Pastorela (2011)

Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil. ...

Chilango Chronicles (2010)

Confusion and eccentricity are all part of life in the vast human ocean of Mexico City -- including the three very different personalities portrayed in this urban fable. By the end of the day, their paths are destined to cross. "El Jairo" (Rodrigo Ostap) i ...

Crepúsculo Rojo (2010)

The repossession of a ranch because of the inability to pay off a mortgage causes a confrontation between two great friends: Valente and Dagoberto. As the last chance to save his patrimony, Valente robs a bank. Dagoberto is ordered to catch him and enforce ...

Euforia (2010)

Stuck in a world of dreams and nostalgia, Pat struggles to forget the limelight and fleeting fame of his glory days. When a beautiful young woman named Ana saves his life, Pat agrees to drive her to her ancestral home, in hopes that she can save him from h ...

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez (2009)

Juan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spectacular act of beheading that it could again return it to its glory years. But without any fifth in the ...

Angel Dust (2007)

In the city of Latinopolis a man named Sacro is hired by a powerful company to carry out a very dangerous mission with the help of Caos, an angel hunter. Meanwhile in another part of the city Susana and Miguel, two Alter-globalization supporters are lookin ...

Pasion Extrema (2007)

Former underground fighting star Jose Luis (Jose Luis Mosca) tries to escape his past by working as a tourist guide in a remote jungle camp but is catapulted back into the spotlight when he saves the lives of some clients in a freak accident. Casimiro (Alb ...

Crazy Carnival (2006)

In 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 ...

Como tú me has deseado (2006)

Non-conformist advertising executive pressured to toe the line and behave. ...

Curandero (2005)

A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City ...

Mi pa' es un teporocho (2005)

Ernesto Yañez, Luis Enrique Parra and Flavio Peniche star in this intense Mexican drama that chronicles one man's journey toward redemption. Having destroyed the lives of his wife and child after abandoning them for the bottle, he would seem to be the las ...

Memorias de un borracho (2004)

Bandido (2004)

When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan. ...

Simón, el gran varón 2 (2004)

Suertuda gloria (2003)

Mexican feature film ...

Snake Skin (2002)

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a n ...

Such is Life (2001)

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting her revenge. ...

Otaola o la república del exilio (2000)

A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola. ...

The Ruination of Men (2000)

A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home. ...

No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waitin ...

Collectors (1996)

A tabloid reporter get deep into her worst nightmare trying to get an award winning report on serial killers ...

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 ...

Guerrero Negro (1994)

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 ...

Las caguamas ninja (1991)

A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together. ...

Love Lies (1989)

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. ...

Polvo De Luz (1989)

A filmmaker spends his final days with his wife at his family's secluded hacienda. ...

Nocturnal Love that Goes Away (1987)

A taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town. ...

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. ...

Mexicano ¡Tú puedes! (1985)

Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to ...

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. ...

La combi asesina (1982)

Mexican feature film ...

Viaje por una larga noche (1977)

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the alcoholism and debauchery of their older son Jamie. As day turns int ...

Devil's Mountain (1975)

Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series. ...