Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

Oedipus Mayor (1996)

Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known potentate of the region. His investigation is directed towards all the armed factions that exist in Colombia ...

A Trickle of Blood (1995)

Leon has a crush on Ofelia, so he decides to steal money from his father and cross the country looking for Ofelia who traveled to Guadalajara. On his journey, Leon goes through many adventures and takes the final step from childhood into adolescence. ...

Cronos (1993)

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device t ...

Difficult Days (1988)

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

Her Secret Life (1987)

Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of C ...

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. ...

Murieron a la mitad del rio (1986)

Dulce espiritu (1985)

Mexican feature film ...

Aquel famoso Remington (1982)

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s. ...

Una leyenda de amor (1982)

The romance between two young people intensifies the bitter feud between their rival families, which has been going on for three generations. ...

Crónica íntima (1979)

Mexican feature film ...

Los amantes frios (1978)

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

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 ...

Brothers of the Wind (1977)

Lo mejor de Teresa (1977)

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree. ...

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. ...

La India (1976)

Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come to see her... ...

The Coming of the King Olmos (1975)

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam? ...

The Birthday of the Dog (1975)

Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best friend to a young man, in a friendship that becomes so very close that the younger man murders his wife. He is helped by the other man. The husband wants t ...

Those Years (1974)

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

The Revengers (1972)

The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the dea ...

Aunt Isabel's Garden (1972)

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle. ...

The Days of Love (1972)

In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen. ...

Furias bajo el cielo (1971)

Five inmates escape Death Row and hole up with their women in the ruins of an abandoned hacienda. ...

The Bridge in the Jungle (1971)

Gale (Charles Robinson) is an idealistic and naive young hunter who ignores warnings that no one can survive for long in the jungles of Mexico except the native Indians. He tries to hunt crocodiles but becomes delirious, disoriented and nears death. Sleigh ...

The Adventurers (1970)

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He return ...

La trinchera (1969)

Valentín de la Sierra (1968)

Based on the corrido of Valentín de la Sierra, one of the revolutionary leaders who forged the armed struggle in Mexican history. The abuses of the Porfirista government against the humble people lead Valentín to lead a large-scale armed uprising. ...

The Apple of Discord (1968)

A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner. ...

Guns for San Sebastian (1967)

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal ...

The Professionals (1966)

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit. ...

Time to Die (1966)

A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of ...

Smoky (1966)

A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are separated and the horse ends up in a rodeo, Clint is determined to set it free. ...

Black Wind (1965)

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that ...

El secreto del texano (1965)

Mexican feature film ...

Nido De Aguilas (1965)

Driven from their homestead by bandits, three brothers and sisters form an outlaw crew of their own and hide out in the mountains, orchestrating their revenge. ...

100 Cries of Terror (1965)

A husband and his lover hatch a plan to murder his wife, and a woman is buried alive in a mausoleum. ...

Cinco asesinos esperan (1964)

Los chacales (1963)

Tlayucan (1962)

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church. ...

Las recién casadas (1962)

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values. ...

Un día de diciembre (1962)

Mexican feature film ...

Hidden Paradise (1961)

Luis lives in the jungle with his parents and his many pets. His favorite pet is his monkey named Pancho. He finds a hide out where he and his friend Marta are able to discover new creatures and enjoy nature. His father Lorenzo orders him to get rid of his ...

Mañana serán hombres (1961)

Film-director assigned to making a teenaged-hoodlums crime drama, agonizes over the positive social message he wants his film to convey. Meanwhile, his young actors all have their own melodramas running... ...

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes. ...

Miracle Roses (1960)

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary. ...

Dispossession (1960)

An experimental film in which time breaks again and again at the moment of death, where the seconds become whole lives condemned. ...

Beyond All Limits (1959)

This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife h ...

Sábado negro (1959)

Café Colón (1959)

Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right. ...

La reina del cielo (1959)

A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the outskirts. Coromoto's fears are increased because of the presence of a snake and the prophecies of the sorcer ...

The Smile of the Virgin (1958)

Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where sh ...

Love Your Neighbor (1958)

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, b ...

Love of a Cabaret Singer (1958)

Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and... ...

La mafia del crimen (1958)

Dios no lo quiera (1957)

A beautiful young woman from the neighborhood falls in love with two rude men, one good and the other bad. ...

Los amantes (1956)

Mexican feature film ...

Death in the Garden (1956)

In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown. ...

The Hidden One (1956)

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader. ...

Basket of Mexican Tales (1956)

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as ...

Where the Circle Ends (1956)

A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses. ...

La doncella de piedra (1956)

Adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel Sobre la misma tierra. A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her position in white society. ...

Fury in Paradise (1955)

In this western, the hero takes a Mexican vacation, gets caught up in a revolutionary plot with the powerful owner of a hacienda, and falls in love with the rancher's daughter all at the same time. ...

El túnel 6 (1955)

Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide. ...

Untouched (1954)

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in ...

The Devil's Money (1953)

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo. ...

El misterio del carro express (1953)

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery. ...

Sueños de gloria (1953)

Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race. ...

Mexican Bus Ride (1952)

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that's interrupted by an increasingly absurd ...

Far from Heaven (1952)

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for ...

La mujer que tu quieres (1952)

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 ...

Four Against the World (1950)

After ambushing a brewery's money truck, four gangsters hide out in the attic of a gangster's lover while the police search the city. As the heat closes in, jealousy, desire, and mistrust begin to fracture the gang from within. ...

Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation. ...

A Family Like Many Others (1949)

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman. ...

Get Off at the Next Corner! (1948)

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita. ...

The Apple of Discord (1968)

A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner. ...