Mario Castillón Bracho

Pubertinaje (1978)

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy t ...

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 ...

Foxtrot (1976)

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II. ...

The Holy Inquisition (1974)

A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he report ...

The Master of Ballantrae (1974)

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate. ...

The Cursed Twelve (1974)

Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story. ...

The Mansion of Madness (1973)

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run. ...

Castle of Purity (1973)

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings. ...

El vals sin fin (1972)

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. ...

Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972)

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution. ...

Crimen (1970)

Death Arrives on Time (1967)

Several lives intertwine: those of a group of vandals, a drug addict, and a girl who works as a waitress in a restaurant where her mother cooks. ...

There Are No Thieves in This Village (1965)

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to stea ...

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. ...