Alfonso Corona Blake

History

Alfonso Corona Blake (2 January 1919 – 21 January 1999) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 27 films between 1956 and 1971. His film The Road of Life won the Honourable Mention (Director) award at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Alfonso Corona Blake

Movies

Más allá de la violencia
Director
The young pacifist Claudio is saddened to see some children playing war. He goes with a group of rebels who make fun of him and invite him to participate in a motorcycle race where the prize is a girl. Ál wins the race with the help of Rafael, the head of the band, and decides to buy to join the group, on a trip they meet with some hippies led by a psychologist who opposes drugs. Two of the gang members, Gabriel and Bernardo, attack one of the girls; the hippies in revenge violate Mimi and sa Julia, for which Bernardo kills a hippie. Claudio fights with him but Mimi intervenes and receives a stab aimed at Claudio. Ál recalls that Rafael was a brother and a lover of her. The police arrest the hippies and scold the parents for the behavior of the young people.
Mujeres de medianoche
Director
Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.
Dos valientes
Director
In his home-town, he's a respectable rancher... but out on the range he's a hitman for hire. His son finds out about his double life, and...
Alerta, alta tension
Director
After a criminal gang kidnaps a scientist with valuable information about nuclear weapons, an undercover agent named Jorge Rubio tries to infiltrate this gang in order to deal with the situation. The gang, however, quickly unmasks Rubio and uses both brainwashing and torture techniques on him. They also create a clone of Rubio, thus setting up a show-down battle between the two look-alikes.
Las pecadoras
Director
Jewel-thief and his girlfriend try to go straight.
El centauro Pancho Villa
Director
M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
Arrullo de Dios
Director
Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.
Los malvados
Director
Four amoral drifters team up to retrieve a cache of gold coins from its hiding place.
Fiebre de juventud
Director
Audaz y bravero
Director
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
Yo, el valiente
Director
A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret and never be able to undo.
Santo in the Wax Museum
Screenplay
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
Santo in the Wax Museum
Director
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
Heaven and Earth
Director
Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Pecado
Director
Scheming and double-crosses as an old man and his doxy go to Guatemala to retrieve a stolen treasure that he hid there in years past.
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
Storyboard
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
Director
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
The World of the Vampires
Director
A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man who knows how to destroy him with a peculiar piece of music.
Violent Summer
Director
During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.
Creo en ti
Director
A rich young woman marries a man who will disappoint her emotionally and financially.
The Sin of a Mother
Director
A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...
Yo pecador
Director
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Lágrimas de amor
Director
Thirst for Love
Director
The Woman and the Beast
Screenplay
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
The Woman and the Beast
Director
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
La torre de marfil
Director
Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
Cabaret trágico
Director
Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder. Meanwhile, the tough broad who owns the bar faces problems of her own, mostly centered around a philandering boyfriend and an over-ambitious adopted daughter.
Felicidad
Director
Directed by Alfonso Corona Blake
The Road of Life
Director
The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.
Para siempre
Assistant Director
Reto a la vida
Assistant Art Director
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
Víctimas del pecado
Assistant Director
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.