Roberto G. Rivera
Birth : 1927-04-01, Mexico City, Mexico
Death : 2016-06-11
History
Roberto G. Rivera (April 1, 1927 - June 11, 2016) was an actor, writer and director, known for directing El Multi Usos (1983), The Glories of the Great Púas (1984) and Ambitions that Kill (1991). He died on June 11, 2016 in Mexico.
Director
The relatives of a recently deceased rich man are after his money, but his butler is trying to stop that from happening.
Script
The relatives of a recently deceased rich man are after his money, but his butler is trying to stop that from happening.
El tío Elías
The relatives of a recently deceased rich man are after his money, but his butler is trying to stop that from happening.
Director
Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.
Director
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
Producer
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
Writer
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
Director
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
Director
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
Two young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
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.
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.
Dr. Kur
A woman travels to her past life with the help of Santo's past life regression machine
Doctor
Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
Story
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.
Rogelio, comisario
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.
Molinar
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Capitán
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Three brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.
Paco
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.
Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man.
Detectivo Médez (Det. Matthews - English dubbed version)
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
Agente de policía (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Mexican feature film
One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.
Falso amante
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
Teniente
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
Roque
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
Mexican feature film
Mariachi (uncredited)
Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
Teodoro
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.
Jarocho, policía
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
Cantante ranchero
Carlos
Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.