Julio Bracho
Birth : 1909-07-17, Durango, Mexico
Death : 1978-04-26
History
Julio Bracho was a Mexican film producer, director, and screenwriter. He was the director of the film "La Sombra del Caudillo", which received an award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in Czechoslovakia in 1960 and a special director's award. He was the father of actress Diana Bracho.
Director
Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.
Director
Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Writer
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Director
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Director
Popa arrives to New York and of course along with her the troubles and tangles.
Writer
A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.
Director
A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.
Writer
Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them
Director
Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them
Writer
Damiana, a girl who has grown up with her grandmother and a friend, is discovered by photographer and launched as supermodel.
Director
Damiana, a girl who has grown up with her grandmother and a friend, is discovered by photographer and launched as supermodel.
Director
Three romantic-comedy sketches in a movie financed by Cuernavaca's Dept. of Tourism.
Writer
The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
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The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
Director
Tourists and exchange students find romance.
Screenplay
Director
Director
A mature woman looks for a judge to hand over after having murdered a man and recounts everything that happened. Sequel to "Historia de un canalla".
Writer
A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him.
Director
A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him.
Director
Teacher and his pupils in small-town Mexico.
Director
Tourist's eye overview of some highlights of Mexican history and folk culture, all expressed through interpretive dance.
Screenplay
Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.
Writer
Director
Writer
The days go by dizzyingly for the girls who work at the cabaret ´El Paraíso´. However, on New Year's Eve, in the heat of the glasses and cigarette smoke, they narrate their hapless destinies
Director
The days go by dizzyingly for the girls who work at the cabaret ´El Paraíso´. However, on New Year's Eve, in the heat of the glasses and cigarette smoke, they narrate their hapless destinies
Director
Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Himself - Director in an introductory scene
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
Writer
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
Director
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
El cantar de los cantares is one of the most fascinating and unknown artistic experiences of the post-war Spanish exile. The prestigious poet and editor Manuel Altolaguirre adapted Fray Luis de León's texts to film, trying to formulate an encounter between Castilian mysticism and Mexican exuberance.
Director
Adaptation
Ranchera melodrama transferred to a Spanish setting.
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Ranchera melodrama transferred to a Spanish setting.
Writer
A small-town woman with psychic sensitivities gets tangled up in the blood-feud between two families and in a romantic rivalry with her best friend.
Director
A small-town woman with psychic sensitivities gets tangled up in the blood-feud between two families and in a romantic rivalry with her best friend.
Writer
Fishing-village girl sacrifices her reputation to the local banker to protect her family; fron there, she follows the path of least resistance, but she never forgets the fiance she left behind...
Director
Fishing-village girl sacrifices her reputation to the local banker to protect her family; fron there, she follows the path of least resistance, but she never forgets the fiance she left behind...
Writer
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.
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.
Writer
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Director
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Screenplay
A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.
Director
A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.
Writer
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
Director
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
Producer
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
Writer
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
Director
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
Dialogue
A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
Director
A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
Writer
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Director
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Writer
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Director
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Story
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Director
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Writer
Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
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Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
Director
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
Writer
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Director
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Director
In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.
Writer
Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.
Director
Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.
Director
Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.
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The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
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The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Director
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Writer
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
Director
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
Writer
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
Director
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
Dialogue
A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
