Luis Alcoriza

The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel (2017)

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As th ...

Pesadilla para un rico (1996)

A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his ​​family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found dead in bed a girl who had spent the previous night with him. The first thing that comes to mind to solve the ...

Long Life Together (1995)

Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their discussions with Matthias are constant, but she is careful not to ever lift his voice. He, however, does n ...

La sombra del ciprés es alargada (1990)

Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from that moment will be responsible for his education. Pedro begins an almost familiar relationship with Doña Gr ...

All Souls' Day (1988)

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed. ...

Living Is What Matters (1987)

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. T ...

Terror and Black Laces (1985)

A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life. ...

Love Is a Strange Game (1983)

A young model with no money or work drifts through a harsh world tries to build a more stable life while her new relationship becomes increasingly complicated. ...

Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac) (1982)

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to handle; or can she control it? ...

National Calvary (1981)

Two middle-aged couples take a Murphy's Law vacation in Acapulco. ...

Buscando un campeon (1980)

A group of veteran boxers find a young potential champion to train. ...

At a Lame Pace (1980)

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising. ...

Three Women in a Bonfire (1979)

Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the summer break in their countryside house next to the beach. Gloria doesn't come alone: she comes with young Su ...

En la trampa (1979)

Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into t ...

Las Fuerzas Vivas (1975)

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought. ...

The Other Virginity (1975)

Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis. ...

Omen (1974)

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals. ...

Faith, Hope and Charity (1974)

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy. ...

The Wall of Silence (1974)

Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people. The movie narrates the dramatic relationship between a mother, her illegitimate child and the puritanical ...

National Mechanics (1972)

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person. ...

Departamento de soltero (1971)

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

La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad (1971)

A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution. ...

Paradise (1970)

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco. ...

Pancho Tequila (1970)

Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys. ...

The World's Oldest Profession (1970)

Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe. ...

A Trap for a Corpse (1969)

Following their mother's passing, two brothers plot to claim the inheritance left in their stepfather's care, but life has a way of turning things around. ...

The Door and the Butcher's Wife (1969)

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The But ...

Romeo contra Julieta (1968)

Dangerous Game (1967)

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro ...

The Gangster (1965)

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family. ...

Tarahumara (Further and farther) (1965)

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands. ...

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963) (1964)

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints. ...

Shark Hunters (1963)

Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city. ...

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. ...

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals. ...

Los Jóvenes (1961)

A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve. ...

Suicídate mi amor (1961)

Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore. ...

Guantes de oro (1961)

By-the-numbers boxing melodrama. ...

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage. ...

La tijera de oro (1960)

The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out ...

Our Daily Hunger (1960)

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday. ...

Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arr ...

El cariñoso (1959)

Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor. ...

School for Buglars (1958)

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims. ...

A Media Luz Los Tres (1958)

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married. ...

Morir de pie (1957)

A young woman gives herself to her boyfriend but is forced to marry an army officer, who takes revenge on him. ...

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 Innocent (1956)

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing ...

The King of México (1956)

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México. ...

La Vida No Vale Nada (1955)

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him. ...

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 River and Death (1954)

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people ...

Robinson Crusoe (1954)

The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday ...

Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an ...

Gitana Tenias Que Ser (1953)

Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had ...

Él (1953)

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath. ...

The Brute (1953)

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished. ...

Meat in Prison (1952)

Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't. ...

La miel se fue de la luna (1952)

Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa ...

Canasta Uruguaya (1951)

Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune. ...

Engagement ring (1951)

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty. ...

Los enredos de una gallega (1951)

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery ...

Daughter of Deceit (1951)

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her. ...

Una gringuita en México (1951)

A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise! ...

Si usted no puede, yo sí (1951)

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great g ...

El Siete Machos (1951)

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that s ...

The Young and the Damned (1950)

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others. ...

Huellas del pasado (1950)

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations. ...

Si me viera don Porfirio (1950)

Yo quiero ser hombre (1950)

In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better. ...

The League of Girls (1950)

Two women form The League of Girls invite an interesting repertoire of young ladies to become members and get rid of men and all the evils that come with them. ...

The Great Madcap (1949)

Portrayal of a family's attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone. ...

Los amores de una viuda (1949)

A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears. ...

Nocturno de amor (1948)

Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and b ...

Una extraña mujer (1947)

El ahijado de la muerte (1946)

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son. ...

Esperanza (1946)

Mexican movie ...

A Mexican Buñuel (1997)

A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films. ...

Tú, solo tú (1950)

Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and meets a new girl. ...

The Great Madcap (1949)

Portrayal of a family's attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone. ...

Flor de caña (1948)

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner. ...

Reina de reinas: La Virgen María (1948)

Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary. ...

Mary Magdalene, Sinner of Magdala (1946)

The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ. ...

El capitán Malacara (1945)

Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons. ...

San Francisco de Asís (1944)

Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi. ...

El rayo del sur (1943)

Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos. ...

Los miserables (1943)

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings. ...

La virgen morena (1942)

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons. ...