Álvaro Matute

Movies

Glancing At Power
Screenplay
An emotional journey through the film archives of the Mexican Revolution, ranging from Venustiano Carranza's administration to the creation of the PNR party by Plutarco Elias Calles.
Fuerzas de Honor
The story of a special team of the Armed Forces and their struggle to dismantle a group of drug traffickers.
11 Cipotes
A Honduran town decides to form a soccer team for some pranksters.
The Xendra
Coronel Martinez
Four scientists live a series of paranormal events. Their only track is a message that would lead them to a place called Ciudad Blanca.
A Few with Courage
Mauricio Barrientos - Pajaro 10
Based on real life events, the story follows a group of special forces police officers who come up against the most dangerous gang in Honduras.
The World of the Vampires
Party Guest
A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man who knows how to destroy him with a peculiar piece of music.
Quinceañera
Mr. Matute
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
La Diana cazadora
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
The River and Death
Joaquín (uncredited)
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Camelia
Doctor (uncredited)
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
Dos mundos y un amor
Daniel Álvarez, architecto
Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Rebellion of the Hanged
El picaro
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Benítez (uncredited)
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
The Boy and the Fog
Compañero trabajo de Guillermo
Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
Él
Gerente hotel (uncredited)
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits. Nevertheless, Gloria meets with scepticism as she expresses her worries to their acquaintances.
Legítima defensa
Mr. X is convicted of killing Mr. Y and serves a jail sentence. After being released, he discovers that Mr. Y is still alive...
El Bombero Atómico
Jugador de cartas (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
Mi campeón
Chofer (uncredited)
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
La miel se fue de la luna
Amigo de Pablo
Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
Daughter of Deceit
Julio
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Pecado
Amigo de Roberto (uncredited)
Víctimas del pecado
Cliente cabaret (uncredited)
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Puerto de tentación
The Devil Is a Woman
Miguel Valdepeña (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Confidencias de un ruletero
El muertito (uncredited)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
La mujer del puerto
Cliente cabaret (uncredited)
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
El Mago
Secuestrador (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
A Family Like Many Others
Padrino de la boda (uncredited)
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Algo flota sobre el agua
Hermano del patrón
Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.
El cuarto mandamiento
Beto Zaneta
A Mexican family drama.