Emilio Carballido

Movies

Escrito en el Cuerpo de la Noche
Screenplay
A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
Manon
Screenplay
During a bus ride through the Andes, two seminarians encounter with a woman named Manon. Immediately, one of them falls in love and the attraction is mutual, so they decide to flee to capital city to start a new life. But the love of Manon ambitious drags this man to leave his vocation and commit criminal acts to maintain a life of luxury and extravagance.
D.F./Distrito Federal
Writer
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
La Güera Rodríguez
Writer
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Writer
A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...
The Fungi Man
Writer
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.
Los 3 reyes magos
Screenplay
The biblical story about the magical wizards that come to visit little baby Jesus when he was born.
The Boy and the Star
Writer
Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Writer
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
El águila descalza
Writer
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.
The Devil's Visitations
Novel
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
Savage Sunday
Writer
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Zodiac Signs
Writer
A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood.
Autumn Days
Screenplay
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
El tejedor de milagros
Adaptation
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
The Time and the Touch
Writer
Mexican feature film
The White Rose
Screenplay
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Macario
Writer
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Nazarin
Screenplay
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.