Jorge Russek

Jorge Russek

Birth : 1932-01-05, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico

Death : 1998-07-30

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Jorge Russek

Movies

Amber
Corbett
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.
La Chilindrina en apuros
El alimento del miedo
The story unfolds in an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón (López Moctezuma himself.) He and his wife Petra (Isaura Espinosa) have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl (who is only 5 years old) must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; the little girl, which he nicknamed "Flea" befriends Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when somone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that "lil Flea" suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.
The Last Battle
El Viejo
A group of boys, roughly seven to eleven years of age, go skinny-dipping in a river near their small Mexican town one afternoon and there find themselves the butt of an old vagabond's practical joke, the man stealing all their clothes from them. Humiliated about having to walk home in the buff, the tykes decide to get even, declare war. Yet, as the generations battle it out, a mutual respect develops, the depth of which is evident once the man has a heart attack during one of his romps with the kids. Will the boys' older pal recuperate so that they can engage in one final battle.
In The MIddle of Nowhere
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.
Contrabando de esmeraldas
Mina
Character study of a stay-at-home daughter, 1930s through the 1950s.
Gertrudis Bocanegra
Sr. Bocanegra
Biopic about a woman who played a courageous role in the resistance against French occupation of Mexico in the early 1800s.
Ramiro Sierra
Pure Luck
Inspector Segura
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
Bandidos
In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival.
Nacidos para morir
Funerals of Terror
Commander
During an earthquake, a frantic man falls down a stairwell and "dies" yet his soul remains trapped in his body.
La zona del silencio
Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the present. Another man finds a colonizer guarded by a ghost treasure, two girls are attacked by an evil car and finally a man steals money, then he flees to enter the past.
Licence to Kill
Pit Boss
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
A Christmas Carol
Los camaroneros
Fisherman organized into a labor collective face opposition from the capitalists who own the boats and the processing plants.It gets violent, and there's a love story mixed in there as well.
Domingo Corrales
Son looks for his father's murderer.
Los plomeros y las ficheras
A cop goes undercover as a mobster and gets a plumber involved in his mess. Meanwhile, a producer falls in love with a drag queen that isn't what she seems to be...
Vieja moralidad
Abuelo
The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.
Oceans of Fire
Cox
Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew keeps dying whilst diving and planting the rig in the sea he needs men who are willing to take the risk. He gets in touch with an old friend from the Navy who works in a prison as sort of an diving training base and there Ben selects out the best to complete the task, but with superiors breathing down his neck, a camera crew now jumping on board and a deadline to meet he wants to finish the job and make sure the men stay alive, but not all things work out as he plans.
Miracles
El juez
Miracles is a 1986 comedy film about a newly divorced couple who can't seem to get away from one another. The film was written and directed by Jim Kouf, and stars Teri Garr, Tom Conti, Paul Rodriguez, and Christopher Lloyd.
Pleasures
Ritherman
Three related women have summer romances in this drama. The first has recently been deserted by her husband. When an old college beau shows up, sparks fly. Meanwhile her sister is wrestling with a rock star. And finally her daughter goes abroad and gets involved with a non-English speaking young man.
Río de oro
Mexican feature film
Motín en la cárcel
Encuentro con la muerte
The Honorary Consul
Senor Escobar
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
El vengador del 30-06
El chueco Robespierre
Demon Hunter
Rastreador
At the highest place in Tarahumaran mountain, a Shaman was brutally murdered. The investigation leads detective Aguilar to ask for help to a veterinarian and a priest, to find out that the crime is just the beginning of a series of brutal murders by a nahual (Wolfman)
Missing
Espinoza
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
La Chèvre
Fernando (uncredited)
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Zorro, The Gay Blade
Don Fernando
George Hamilton stars in a dueling dual role as twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after the dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and costume, a broken ankle prevents the masked avenger from fulfilling his heroic duties. When his flamboyantly fashion-conscious brother assumes the secret identity to continue an ongoing fight for justice, the results are nothing short of hilarious!
Juan el enterrador
Wanted by the police, a drug-smuggler goes into hiding, passing as a priest in a small town.
El robo imposible
Don Teófilo
Champion racehorse is kidnapped, ends up on a ranch in Durango, running dirt-road races at the county fair.
Emilio Varela vs Camelia la Texana
Emilio tries to retire from Camelia's gang; she has her men bushwhack him, but he escapes and plans revenge. Sequel to Contrabando Y Traicion.
Memorias de un visitador médico
Jorge Coro
A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous
El rey de los tahures
Young man becomes a professional gambler to track down the cardshark that killed his father in a poker game.
Ilegales y mojados
After crossing the river, Mauricio has a hard time finding work, so he throws in with a gang of cocaine smugglers.
Caboblanco
Provincial Minister
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
En la cuerda del hambre
Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't work, they hatch a kidnapping scheme, and the movie shifts its focus to the rich people who have been profiting off their poverty.
Amor a la Mexicana
Two salesmen compete for top honors at the company they represent.
El Brazo de Oro
Viejo McCutchen
Eagle's Wing
Gonzalo
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
Tigre
Boy adopts an orphaned mountain lion and they grow up together. Fifteen years later, local farmers decid theey don't like having that critter around their livestock, and things go south real fast.
Convoy
Tiny Alvarez
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
Hot Snake
Sheriff
A psychopath named Jenkins is wanted by the law. There is a $5,000 reward for his capture but Jenkins has the supernatural help of a witch named Ramona, which gives it the power to see the future.
Tempestad
El diabólico
Arnold Weatherby
Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the satanic mark on her body. He was caught and was prepared for hanging. At moment before hanging Dave uses his supernatural power and makes a local shoe-shiner his accomplice. While running from sheriff Dave was injured and after some time dies. But before his death Dave gives this medallion to shoe-shiner Oscar and asks him to take revenge in the name of Satan. So he does it and also continue to rape and kill women never forgetting to leave satanic mark on their bodies...
Los temibles
Wounded bank robber and his accomplice hole up at an out-of-the-way farm while his gunshot heals. The able-bodied one tries to renounce his outlaw lifestyle, but the cards are stacked against him.
Dinastía de la muerte
Crime-y land-owner declares war on the family at the ranch next door for not having joined with him in his illegal enterprises.
Anyway, Juan is Your Name
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
Juan Armenta, el repatriado
Mr. Clayton
Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
El hombre del puente
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
The Return of a Man Called Horse
Blacksmith
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. Led by Horse, they fight to repossess their land.
Santo vs. the She-Wolves
(as Jorge Rusek)
Also known as Santo vs. the She-Wolves
El buscabullas
An east-coast financier is touring the far west via stagecoach; in Nogales AZ, his son is kidnapped and three rival groups of black hats try to profit from the situation.
The Great Adventure of Zorro
Capitan
The De La Vega's are a wealthy and prestigious family known throughout the territory. When Diego, the youngest son of Don Alejandro de La Vega, returns from his 4 year stay in Spain, he finds him hometown oppressed by the corrupt military forces. The farmers are being run out of their homes and their land is being used as military camps and/or sold off to pay for military supplies and wages, along with taking the poor villagers and using them as slaves. So Diego/Zorro has multiple face offs with the local military and swears to restore order and freedom to the oppressed.
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Sangre derramada
Jorge Russek
El pequeño Robin Hood
Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.
El valle de los miserables
Pancracio
Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein
Dr. Irving Frankenstein
Innocent women are being kidnapped and used as guinea pigs for a brain transplant experiment. The diabolical Dr. Frankenstein continues his quest to perfect his brain transplant operation to bring back his deceased wife at any cost - even if it means playing with the lives of others. El Santo and Blue Demon are called in to help when their friend Alicia becomes Dr. Frankenstein's next target. It'll take both heroes to go up against the dastardly doctor and go mano a mano with his super strong zombie Golem.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Cueto
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Los doce malditos
Hawk
Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.
¡Quiero vivir mi vida!
Controlling father stifles adult son's career plans, interferes with his love life...
Adios, amor...
A young man kidnaps a woman and embarks on an energetic crime spree. The reason for his behavior gradually becomes apparent.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Silva
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
La noche de los mil gatos
Husband
Millionaire playboy Hugo flies around Acapulco in his private helicopter to pick up sexy young women. He whisks them away to his secluded old castle, where he wines and dines them. With the aid of his bald, mute little helper, Dorgo, he kills his dates, keeping their heads in a crystal cage and feeding their chopped up body parts to his 1,000-strong army of bloodthirsty, flesh hungry cats.
Indio
Vargas
A greedy land developer steals the land from an Apache Indian tribe. His plan involves shooting most of the Apaches but an Apache warrior survives and gets revenge.
Manuel Saldivar, el texano
Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.
The Wrath of God
Cordona
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
Tacos al Carbón
Licenciado
Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City.
La mula de Cullen Baker
Sargento Jim
Siete muertes para el texano
When the Texan returns to the town, seeking to secure his fortune, the sheriff of the place asks the Texano to come to the aid of a dear friend. Seven frightful ones, on a pillaging expedition, have assaulted the cabana of a hunter and kidnapped his young daughter. When the Texan arrives there, he finds only the hunter who desperately asks for his aid. Both men initiate the ferocious persecution, until one by one they manage to end the seven strangers and also manage to save the beautiful young person.
Arde Baby, Arde
District Commisioner (as George Russek)
A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. After the war with the orphan grown and business slow, the orphan begins to generate business himself by shooting people. The orphan wants to make one big score by robbing a bank but the gravedigger resists. Their dream is to open a fancy funeral parlor and cemetery. The orphan becomes obsessed with a prostitute he saw who was later abandoned by her outlaw partner after a robbery attempt on a gold wagon goes bad. He eventually leaves the gravedigger to find her
Alguien nos quiere matar
Cristóbal
A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Alguien nos quiere matar
Cristobal
A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Su precio... unos dólares
A woman hires four gunmen, Trinidad, Doc, Satan and The Renegade to rob a bank, but things don't work out as planned.
Soldier Blue
Running Fox
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
The Wild Bunch
Major Zamorra
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Everything In Vain
Allen Lucero
Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
Lauro Puñales
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
Pax?
Man
Mexican experimental feature film, made for the 1968 olympics.
Valentín de la Sierra
Lucio Vázquez
Blending historical fact and adventure fiction, Emiliano Zapata's (fictional) right-hand man takes leadership of his regiment after he's killed.
Caballo prieto azabache
El Coyote
Standing before Pancho Villa's tomb, horse breeder Jesus harkens back to his youth, when he provided bed and board to a nondescript laborer named Doroteo Arango. In time, Arango would transform himself into gang leader Villa. When the Mexican Civil War erupts, a man named Fierro wants to execute Jesus for selling a horse to an anti-Villa buyer. But in repayment of Jesus's debt of kindness, Villa intercedes on his behalf.
La ley del gavilán
Comisario
A 1968 film.
The Scapular
Don Agustín
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
El asesino se embarca
Villagran
Cops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship.
Alma Grande en el desierto
Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation.
Pedro Paramo
'El Tilcuate'
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Jinetes de la llanura
José Menchaca
Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera.
La mano de Dios
A dead man's brother tracks his murderer down, years later, and intercedes to prevent him from taking over a young woman's farm.
El mexicano
After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.
El comandante Furia
Mexican feature film
El hijo del diablo
Masked Avenger (Lone Ranger style) versus smugglers in a small fishing town.
Los Malditos
White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.
The Four Juanes
Captain
Juan Sin Fiedo (Javier Solis), Juan Colorado (Antonio Aguilar), Juan Pistolas (Luis Aguilar) and Juan Charrasqueado join their destinies during the Mexican Revolution.
La frontera sin ley
Series western -- cowboy hero "Martin Romero, el Rapido."
Alma grande
Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series.
El fugitivo
Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
El hijo de Gabino Barrera
Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
La maldición del oro
Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright.
¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes!
Wandering-cowboy-hero, 1960s style, tries to borrow some prestige from classic 1940s ranchera movies & music.
El tigre de Guanajuato: Leyenda de venganza
Man tracks down the five people responsible for killing his father. Semi-sorta sequel to Juan Sin Miedo (1964).
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
La loba
Commissioner
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
She-Wolves of the Ring
Bronco
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
El último cartucho
Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.
Nos lleva la tristeza
Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.
El texano
A young man is executed for a murder he didn't commit. His brother shows up to clear his name and see that proper justice is done.
El Padrecito
Matías
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
La banda del fantasma negro
Wandering cowboy hero with sidekick helps a young woman solve a murder and find a hidden treasure.
Entrega Inmediata
Espía
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
La garra del leopardo
Variation on Zorro. Lawyer disguises himself to fight crime, using his secret identity to work on clearing a client and himself of criminal charges.
Las vengadoras enmascaradas
Zorro-inspired sister act, black dominos and bullwhips. Second of three in unofficial series.
Los amigos Maravilla en el mundo de la aventura
Little cowboy-fella, believed to be an orphan, helps his sheriff buddy to stamp out crime. Second of two in series.
Ghost Town
El rapido
A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.
Cuando los hijos se pierden
Asaltante
Young woman's parents don't supervise her activities closely enough; she ends up going to a beatnik nightclub and dancing the twist and getting raped.
The Monster of the Volcano
A yeti-like monster is stalking the mountains of rural Mexico, sometimes displaying the powers of hypnosis. It ultimately plays a part in destroying two shady characters.
¡En peligro de muerte!
Smith
La máscara roja
Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into action-hero mode to correct them.
Spiritism
Eduardo Aguirre
Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
Amor a balazo limpio
Marco Reyes
Hired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.
La vida de Agustín Lara
Coronel Rodolfo
La odalisca No. 13
The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her costar and manager tag along to rescue her.
Villa!!
Rurale Lieutenant
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa