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Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
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27 October 2017
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz.
01 January 1982
Mexican feature film
04 December 1987
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
01 January 2007
Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him.
13 November 1988
A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
04 June 1975
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
28 April 2000
After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is discouraged when she discovers that Carl already has a new girlfriend, the lovely Carmen.
30 March 1984
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package.
12 December 1986
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
25 July 2004
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
27 October 2005
"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Simplemente, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the greatest comdedian-actors in the history of Mexican Cinema.
27 May 1995
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
19 June 1969
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
27 September 1962
On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.
29 August 1968
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
16 April 1992
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
26 June 1975
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
02 April 1958
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
28 February 1991
Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daughter.
30 November 1972
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
29 January 1988
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of them find peace they were missing.
18 December 1970
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
12 January 2002
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father.
29 June 2012
Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey.
21 September 2018
A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who always gets drunk.
22 June 1971
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
11 July 1980
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
08 October 1970
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
18 October 1972
In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter kills her mate.
09 September 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 steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
08 December 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.
18 June 2010
1905, the cinematograph has reached Southern Italy, and casts fear among the people to whom it seems a devilish trick.
12 February 1970
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
28 September 1960
Papa and the butler try to find an acceptable husband for daddy's spoiled little girl.
15 May 1986
Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
17 May 1969
The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively.
15 September 1970
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
27 April 2003
A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop.
17 September 1992
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. Roxana Chavez is a young girl who's flirting with death, trapped in a dangerous liaison with boss Fernando Balzaretti.
06 May 1970
"Mod" culture in Mexico City.
01 January 1956
Mexican feature film
26 May 2000
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
26 January 1967
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inher�
04 December 1981
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
05 April 1972
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
02 May 1974
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
20 March 2004
This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata as an Indigenous Mexican shaman, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican movie ever produced, with a massive ad campaign, and the largest ever opening in the nation's history.
