Ignacio Retes

A Sweet Scent of Death (1999)

Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. ...

If I Never See You Again (1997)

Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which fina ...

Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997)

The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist. ...

Bienvenido-Welcome (1995)

During a business trip, a married man (José) has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message "Welcome to the world of AIDS". Later, his wife Maria, unaware of the situation, makes love to her husband when he is drunk. The consequences of the contag ...

Amor a la medida (1993)

Pop musician lives out a situation in which he throws over a good woman for a bad woman and then discovers the terrible secrets of her checkered past... or does he? ...

Encuentro Inesperado (1993)

Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The journey has been long and Pilar wants to rest. Dismissed his driver and his butler; will try to sleep until breakfast time. The diva dreams of being killed by one of ...

Vintage Model (1992)

Life unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live. To tie up the loose ends of her life, she hires a chauffeur to drive her around Mexico City and visit her old haunts. But he does far more than that ...

Playa azul (1992)

A politician accused of fraud seeks refuge in a remote, hotel he owns. Joined by his wife, and children he requests aid from his friends. His friends refuse to help, and eventually his family leave him, leaving him with few options. ...

Los años duros: El nacimiento de un guerrillero (1989)

The lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60's. Some years later, the friends meet again. Rolo has turned into a guerrilla fighter, Boby into a businessman and Chino into an embittered and solitary man. ...

Lovers, Partners & Spies (1988)

Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer. ...

Mariana Mariana (1987)

The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American th ...

Herencia maldita (1987)

Mexican feature film ...

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. ...

Los Naúfragos II: Los Piratas (1986)

The Cast Aways saga continues as the shipwrecked islanders discover a cave full of buried treasures, along with the bones of Pirates. They use the cave as a shelter and plan an escape with the loot. Before their plan is complete, a ship arrives with pirate ...

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro (1986)

Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good. ...

Three of Cups (1986)

While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both. ...

El rey de la vecindad (1985)

Sentimental comedy about ups and downs in a working-class neighborhood. ...

The Castaways of Liguria (1985)

A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea. Thompson manages to escape unaware that Albizetti sleeps in the same lifeboat he uses. They manage to arri ...

El centro del laberinto (1985)

Mexican feature film ...

Motel (1984)

The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel. ...

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. ...

Luna de sangre (1984)

Mexican feature film ...

Mundo mágico (1983)

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance. ...

Deceitful Appearances (1983)

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside. ...

The Flying Pony (1982)

Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the h ...

The Eve (1982)

Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered. ...

A Married Woman (1982)

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, ...

Everyone's Hell So Feared (1981)

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions. ...

The Big Dead Dog (1981)

In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. ...

Occupation of Darkness (1981)

Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the ...

Aunt Alejandra (1980)

The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk. ...

The Gambler (1979)

Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life. ...

Broken Flag (1979)

When 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 incr ...

New World (1978)

Towards 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 ...

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 ...

Paper Flowers (1978)

On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as ...

La casta divina (1977)

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the lan ...

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 ...

El Reventón (1977)

Wild-partying hippie-artist-dilettantes end up forming a revolutionary terrorist cell. The misfit Gato loses a lot of money in bets and his father throws him out of his house. Ál leaves his girlfriend Laura for his lover, the married Adriana. Out of money ...

Chin Chin el teporocho (1976)

Rogelio'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. ...

The Hard Years (1973)

Three boys, after participating in the events of 1968 in Mexico, find themselves in the need to get away from the social struggle ...

Los Desalmados (1971)

Melodías de amor (1955)

La vida tiene tres días (1955)

Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet. ...

Doña Perfecta (1951)

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and ...

They Say I'm a Communist (1951)

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious a ...

The Naked City (1989)

A 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 seri ...

Viaje al paraíso (1985)

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

Broken Flag (1979)

When 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 incr ...

Paper Flowers (1978)

On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as ...

Albur de amor (1947)

Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights. ...