Roberto Cobo

The Image Book (2018)

In Le Livre d'Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the ...

Carambola (2005)

El Vago (Martinez) has recently won an old-fashioned billiards hall in a heated contest with the joint's former owner El Mexicano (Jesus Ochoa). The first order of business: El Vago enlists the aid of ambitious assistant El Perro (Luna) in shooting an inst ...

Without Destination (2002)

Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour has arise ...

A Beautiful Secret (2002)

The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, rememb ...

Una luz en la calle (2002)

Mexican feature film ...

Caiman's Dream (2001)

Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck. ...

The Magic Hour (2000)

Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chi ...

Long Sleepless Nights (2000)

Bruno, a young prostitute on the streets of Mexico city, spends his free time yearning for his straight friend Umberto. When Umberto rejects him, Bruno reacts with his own violent and misguided actions... ...

Speaking of Buñuel (2000)

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Tho ...

Little Saints (1999)

After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter. ...

El agujero (1997)

After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home. ...

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. ...

A Mexican Buñuel (1997)

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

Dulces Compañías (1996)

A geography teacher hires a male sex worker, yet the man is not what he appears to be. ...

La Güera Chabela (1994)

Los pasos de Ana (1993)

A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. ...

Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian trib ...

Hembra o macho (1991)

A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite. ...

The Legend of a Mask (1991)

A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel" ...

Amsterdam Boulevard (1991)

Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask him to be a couple again. ...

Contigo en la distancia (1991)

El hijo de Lamberto Quintero (1990)

Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film. ...

Slaughter Night (1990)

Three part anthology with stories involving a Phantom of the Opera-style killer haunting a theater, four punks who pick the wrong house to rob and a man on the hunt for Bigfoot. ...

Me alquilo por amor (1990)

Pancho cachuchas (1989)

Los hermanos Machorro (1988)

Aging rancher reaches out to absorb an illegitimate son from long ago into his family. That son turns out to be a big ol' hairdresser; will he ever fit into the rodeoin' machista ranch society? ...

Violent Stories (1985)

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film. ...

Naná (1985)

Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano. ...

Dulce espiritu (1985)

Mexican feature film ...

El Mil Usos II (1984)

Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream. ...

The Heart of the Night (1984)

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become r ...

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. ...

The Glories of the Great Púas (1984)

Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career. ...

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. ...

El Dia Del Compadre (1983)

The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol. ...

La combi asesina (1982)

Mexican feature film ...

D.F./Distrito Federal (1981)

Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city. ...

Angel del barrio (1981)

Patada de Mula, an old retired boxer, lives with the guilt of having killed his opponent in his last fight, but he works as a masseur in a gym, sells balloons on Sundays and with the proceeds supports the widow of the opponent he killed and his son El Kid, ...

La leyenda de Rodrígo (1981)

Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose. ...

Long live Tepito! (1981)

Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral. ...

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. ...

Life Sentence (1979)

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks. ...

Estas ruinas que ves (1979)

In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man. ...

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna (1978)

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers… ...

Free Love (1978)

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship. ...

The Place Without Limits (1978)

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town. ...

El águila descalza (1971)

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses. ...

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 ...

Bring Me the Vampire (1963)

A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might ...

House of the Frights (1963)

Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house. ...

Jóvenes y bellas (1962)

Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls. ...

Se alquila marido (1961)

Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns. ...

Pompeyo el conquistador (1953)

Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly. ...

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 ...

Dancing, salón de baile (1952)

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape. ...

Mujeres de teatro (1951)

Know what this is about? ...

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 ...

Vuelva el sábado (1951)

Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector. ...

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! ...

La reina del mambo (1951)

Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city. ...

Nosotras, las taquígrafas (1950)

Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses. ...

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. ...

Caribbean Rhythms (1950)

A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor. ...

El pecado de ser pobre (1950)

Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison. ...

Donde nacen los pobres (1950)

Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone. ...

Si fuera una cualquiera (1950)

The King of the Neighborhood (1950)

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor. ...

El diablo no es tan diablo (1949)

A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to claim their souls in exchange. ...

El ángel caído (1949)

Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba. ...

Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio (1949)

Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough. ...

El secreto de Juan Palomo (1947)

La casa colorada (1947)

Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama. ...

La niña de mis ojos (1947)

Classic movie of Mexican cinema. ...