Luis Accinelli

Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity (2013)

Two naked, life-sized figures, each around 70 years old, track torches across their aging epidermises as if rooting out the pattern of their pasts. The skin itself becomes a metaphor for lived experience and the prospect of its termination. ...

Symbol (2009)

A Japanese man in polka-dot pajamas wakes up in a room with no doors. Meanwhile, a middle-aged Mexican wrestler prepares for his most challenging match ever. ...

East Side Story (2006)

Diego is a gay but closeted Hispanic chef living in East Los Angeles who works in the restaurant operated by his grandmother. Frustrated by the secretive lifestyle he shares with his similarly closeted lover, Pablo, Diego finds himself attracted to Wesley, ...

If... Dog... Rabbit (1999)

Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to live a normal life and gets work at a gas station. But soon his brother pays a visit. ...

Sur Violento (1995)

Discriminación Maldita (1990)

Los desmadrados (1989)

Rambombon tries to explain to Saint Peter why he has been sent to Heaven, after his tribulations on Earth as a transvestite. ...

Teto contra la migra (1988)

Teto the altar boy turns his church into a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. ...

5 pollas en peligro (1986)

Five young women visiting relatives in Acapulco are targetted by white-slave kidnappers. ...

Satanic Invocation (1986)

An extremely rare shot-on-video horror film that involves a Ouija board and a demon. ...

Dos Chichimecas en Hollywood (1986)

Mexican comedy with Isela Vega starring as a woman who joins two low lives as they just navigate around Hollywood. ...

Prizzi's Honor (1985)

Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can ...

El Carro de la Muerte (1984)

A tragic account of the illegal traffic of human beings in the border. A spine-tingling adventure, intense drama of a group of undocumenteds in a race against death. ...