Jorge Stahl Jr.

Jorge Stahl Jr.

Birth : 1921-01-01, Mexico

Death : 2003-11-04

Profile

Jorge Stahl Jr.

Movies

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
Director of Photography
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Choices of the Heart
Director of Photography
Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.
Trail of Death
Director of Photography
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
El testamento
Cinematography
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
Life Sentence
Director of Photography
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.
Mr. Horn
Director of Photography
Western saga based on the legend of frontier folk hero Tom Horn, including his role in the trackdown of Geronimo in the 1880s with his mentor and pal, Al Sieber, the fabled Indian scout, his later days as a Pinkerton detective, and the way he was used by both sides in turn-of-the-century cattle wars, leading to his tragic death.
The Nights of Paloma
Cinematography
While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.
Desperate Women
Cinematography
Three unjustly convicted female prisoners are being transported to prison. Their guards die of water poisoning and a former contract killer helps them survive.
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Director of Photography
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
Cinematography
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.
Matinée
Cinematography
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
The Black Widow
Cinematography
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
Cuartelazo
Cinematography
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 film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
El ministro y yo
Director of Photography
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Letters from Marusia
Director of Photography
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
The Fight with the Panther
Cinematography
Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
Tivoli
Cinematography
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Satanic Pandemonium
Director of Photography
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!
I Will Fight No More Forever
Director of Photography
Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Based on the true story of the westward expansion of the United States and the military force used to displace Native Americans from their lands.
The Vengeance of the Crying Woman
Cinematography
Santo and Mantequilla Nápoles team up to end the curse of La Llorona by getting ahold of a special medallion. Unfortunately, La Llorona escapes in the process.
The Holy Inquisition
Director of Photography
A Jewish family suffers persecution and suffering in the 16th century when they are accused of practicing witchcraft.
Inspector Calzonzin
Cinematography
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Cinematography
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Conserje en Condominio
Director of Photography
After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.
Those Years
Cinematography
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Jory
Cinematography
Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect.
Pepito y la lámpara maravillosa
Director of Photography
Pepito The child misbehaves because his stepfather is scolding. Buy a sauceboat but when his cat rubs it a genie appears. The child understands that it is the magic lamp and asked all sorts of goodies and the solution of their tasks, but when he needs money stepfather tells of genius. The stepfather asked to topple his partner's plane. Pepito refuses and flees with the lamp and throws it into a river to avoid falling into its power. The stepfather drowns while trying to rescue him.
Triángulo
Director of Photography
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
The Crazy Virgins
Director of Photography
Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
Aunt Isabel's Garden
Cinematography
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Aguilas de acero
Director of Photography
Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.
The Desperate Mission
Director of Photography
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francissco.
Sor Ye-yé
Director of Photography
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
The Scalphunters
Assistant Camera
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
Director of Photography
In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly, they have come to warn people about the dangers of nuclear testing and exploring space, but their real mission becomes manifest when they begin using their special powers and gadgets to exploit weak earthlings.
Seguiré tus pasos
Cinematography
José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.
La Venus maldita
Director of Photography
Man with fatal illness encourages wife and best friend to have fun together.
Que hombre tan sin embargo
Director of Photography
Seemingly at random, a hobo dude attaches himself to an upper-middle-class family and starts influencing them for the better in their day-to-day activities
Tirando a gol
Director of Photography
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Cinematography
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Semáforo en rojo
Cinematography
A client arrives to a jewelry store in Bogotá, he choose a gem and pays it no matter the cost of it. He asks the manager to keep the gem in the store during the weekend. Meanwhile, a band of professional thieves plans the theft to the store without imagining that the fate of death surrounds them, and all beacuse of a red light.
Kiss from Beyond the Grave
Director of Photography
A newlywed couple find themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house from which they get very bad vibes. It's not long before some very strange and disturbing people begin showing up at the house.
The Witch's Mirror
Director of Photography
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
September Storm
Director of Photography
American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her. She believes he owns a beautiful yacht called The Swan, but he merely works on it for the wealthy Rene LeClerc.
School for Mothers-in-Law
Director of Photography
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
Enchanted Island
Director of Photography
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
Rogaciano el huapanguero
Director of Photography
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
El gallo colorado
Cinematography
A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.
Alma de Acero
Cinematography
Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
A Woman's Devotion
Cinematography
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.
Death in the Garden
Director of Photography
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Director of Photography
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Garden of Eden
Cinematography
War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida, get lost on a detour, and find shelter at a nudist colony.
Garden of Evil
Director of Photography
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
Nuevo amanecer
Cinematography
Mexican feature film
Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Cinematography
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
Here Come The Freeloaders
Director of Photography
Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
Caribbean
Director of Photography
Mexican feature film
Meat in Prison
Cinematography
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 loca
Cinematography
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
The Martyr of Calvary
Cinematography
The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Las locuras de Tin Tan
Director of Photography
Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Paco, el elegante
Cinematography
Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
The Troublemaker
Director of Photography
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
Monte de piedad
Writer
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Crimen y castigo
Cinematography
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Heart of beast
Director of Photography
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Apartment house
Director of Photography
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Caribbean Rhythms
Cinematography
A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.
By the False Door
Director of Photography
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
La loca de la casa
Director of Photography
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
The Man Without a Face
Director of Photography
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
The Mark of the Skunk
Cinematography
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Cinematography
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
Cinematography
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
El Colmillo de Buda
Cinematography
Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.
The Three Huastecos
Director of Photography
This is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
La barca de oro
Director of Photography
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
When the Brave Cry
Director of Photography
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Song of Mexico
Director of Photography
Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwavering devotion to his business. Tired of being ignored, Carol leaves her engagement ring with Greg's secretary, Sarah Anderson, and flies to Mexico City to repair her broken heart and visit her friends, Anita and Arturo Martinez. On the plane, Carol meets Ramon Carranza, a handsome singer and movie star who is wildly popular in Mexico.
Adam, Eve and the Devil
Cinematography
Las cinco advertencias de Satanás
Cinematography
Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.
El ametralladora
Camera Operator
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.