Ernesto Cortázar Jr.

Ernesto Cortázar Jr.

Birth : 1940-05-02, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 2004-08-02

History

Ernesto Cortázar Jr. was a Mexican composer for film music and pianist.

Profile

Ernesto Cortázar Jr.

Movies

Ellos trajeron la violencia
Original Music Composer
A gang of criminal teens take shelter from the police in a house inhabited by a nun and her niece.
La taquera picante
Original Music Composer
A rich man hires two detectives to find a long lost relative who will inherit a fortune. He'll try to turn her into a dilettante, but is it too late to change her?
El muerto al hoyo... y el vivo también
Original Music Composer
Wacky hijinks in a brothel. Union officials misappropriating funds, a customer dying in bed, some foxy grandpas cutting up on a visit to the big city... it's all hilarious. Or not.
Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord
Music
A satanic preacher comes to a small town where he unleashed the terror of the inhabitants.
Entre compadres te veas
Original Music Composer
After a year spent mourning his wife's death, a father and two sons cut loose for some wild living. Loose remake of Los Tres Alegres Compadres.
Tres lancheros muy picudos
Compositor
Son las emocionantes aventuras de tres lancheros holgazanes en Acapulco. Cada uno de ellos se ve involucrado en diferentes problemas y tienen que salir huyendo a la ciudad de México. Ahí se esconden en la casa de unas amigas para evadir a los gangsters que los buscan solo que las muchachas resultan ser prostitutas y todo se complica. The exciting adventures of three men who drive boats in Acapulco. Each gets involved in different problems and all have to run away to Mexico City to elude the gangsters who are after them. They hide in the house of some lady friends who turn out to be "working girls" and things get really wild.
Olor A muerte
Original Music Composer
The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.
Cacería implacable
Music
In Danger of Dying
Original Music Composer
Nina is a reporter who works in a Latin American country at war when she finds herself trapped in the line of fire and hires a mercenary pilot named Victor to help her escape the place, but the plane is attacked and the journalist and pilot have to parachute off the plane. They fall into the sea but with a life raft they make it to the jungle, where they have to coexist and she learns to survive.
El criminal
Original Music Composer
Jesús was framed for a crime he didn't commit, he serves his sentence and then goes home to get revenge.
El mexicano feo
Music
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
Peter Knife
Music
Based on the international hit song, Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife) is the story of the coolest, street smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City. The police are after him, his rivals are after him, and all the while the most beautiful women of Mexico are in the cup of his hand. - Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Corrupción
Music
Wild Dogs
Original Music Composer
A professional assassin (and widowed deadbeat dad set to soon remarry) decides to call it quits and go straight after one more job. Complications ensue, particularly with a persistent police detective.
Burdel
Music
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
The White Indian
Original Music Composer
Los guaruras
Original Music Composer
El Bronco
Original Music Composer
Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.
El día de los albañiles: Los maistros del amor
Compositor
If you have even the slightest interest in latsploitation, it’s only a matter of time before you come across El Día de los Albañiles (The Day of the Bricklayers). Released in 1984, this film embodies everything that was “wrong” with Mexican cinema in the 1980s. However, the film managed to become somewhat popular and was followed by three sequels, titled more or less the same, in 1985, 1987 and 1990.
Ojo por Ojo
Original Music Composer
A couple is attacked bu thugs and the woman is killed, the boyfriend plans his revenge.
La Jorobada
Music
Little girl with very visible spinal injury is given second-class treatment by her able-bodied family. Years pass...
El robo imposible
Music
Champion racehorse is kidnapped, ends up on a ranch in Durango, running dirt-road races at the county fair.
El Macho Biónico
Original Music Composer
A well-known playboy (Andrés García), and his gay assistant (Roberto 'Flaco' Guzmán), are victims of a plane accident when their private jet crashes. In the accident, the millionaire suffers the mutilation of his penis, forcing him to travel to the United States and invest his fortune in a technological reconstruction of his male organ, thus becoming the first Bionic Male of Mexico.
Buscando un campeon
Original Music Composer
A group of veteran boxers find a young potential champion to train.
Las tres tumbas
Original Music Composer
The Whip vs. the Killer Mummies
Music
Third and final film in the Zorro-like series, following El Latigo / "The Whip" (1978) and El látigo contra Satanás / "The Whip vs. Satan" (1979).
Crónica roja
Music
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
Chanoc en el Circo Union
Music
The comic book hero foils animal smugglers in the circus.
Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle
Original Music Composer
Beautiful Silvia and Sandra disappear mysteriously at the Bermuda Triangle. Santo, Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras, a team of super-heroes, go into action to try to find them. Soon they find out that evil Scientist Dr. Gro has developed a device to make people and objects to disappear blaming the famous vanishings of ships, airplanes and human beings on Mother Nature. Cast: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Silvia Manrquez and, Sandra Duarte
Discotec fin de semana
Music
A group of young adults find love in a discotheque.
El Chanfle
Music
This movie is about a soccer team worker "Chanfle", who's in charge of having everything up to date for the team, soccer balls, uniforms, soccer shoes, you name it! Well he's been married for 10 years to a beautiful young girl but hasn't got the privilege of being a father! They are really poor and in the attempt to sell a gun that belonged to a diseased uncle, he's mistaken for a burglar by a drunk guy. From that moment on, he's contanstly harrassed by the drunk guy, who chases him everytime he can...
El fuego de mi ahijada
Music
Guerra de sexos
Original Music Composer
A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife.
Candelaria
Music
Subsistance-farmer emigrates to the city in search of opportunity, loses contact with his wife and children.
The Vampires of Coyoacan
Original Music Composer
In the service of Satan, a murderous vampire is turning wrestlers into his unwitting thrall, and it's up to Mil Máscaras and Superzan to stop him and save the world.
El tigre de Santa Julia
Music
Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.
The Man and the Beast
Original Music Composer
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.
Vanessa
Music
A woman is dissatisfied with her husband and resorts to another woman.
How to Kill my Husband
Music
Dissatisfied wife has elaborate daydreams about murdering her husband.
Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women
Original Music Composer
Wrestler vs. organized crime.
S.O.S. Operation Bikini
Music
Secret Organizational Service (S.O.S.) is an international crime syndicate, quite successful with their feminine agents operating under the guise of a fashion model agency led by Lady Bristol and her associate Luigi. The International Service is the governmental secret service decided to put a term to SOS's action. An agent has infiltrated SOS - but she is in danger, after sending a coded message to her supervising Inspector. So, agents Alex Dinamo is to join forces with Adriana, and give the undercover agent a hand.
Operación Tiburón
Original Music Composer
A popular singer is suspected of being involved with a notorious drug dealer, el Tiburón (the Shark). Meanwhile, a friend of the singer is recruited by Interpol to find the criminal's real identity.
María Elena
Writer