Álex Phillips Jr.

Nascimento : 1935-01-11, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Morte : 2007-02-12

Filmes

Luminarias
Director of Photography
Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful friends from East LA...with very discriminating taste in men! When separated divorce attorney Andrea finds herself guilty of falling for her white and Jewish opposing council, her three single friends choose sides in the ongoing and often hilarious debate over race and sex. As they discover just how much negative stereotypes color their relationships with men-and even with each other-it becomes clear that the search for Mr. Right is not exactly black and white! Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Bésame en la boca
Director of Photography
Popstar dies by accident, and Heaven's bureaucrats send her back to earth to inhabit a different body.
Mujeres infieles
Director of Photography
O filme conta três histórias sobre mulheres igual número de classe média alta e classe alta da Cidade do México têm em comum o hábito de ter sido infiéis a seus parceiros.
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Cinematography
Three moments in the life of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas; his youth encounter with the natives; his resignation in maturity to lands and encomiendas to evangelize and defend justice and dignity against the cruelty of the Spanish and his reflections at the end of his life
Um Trabalho Proibido
Director of Photography
A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival.
Imperio blanco
Director of Photography
Two reformatory kids grow up and become movers in the drug trade.
Undressed and Unruly
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A beautiful woman is abandoned by her husband during their honeymoon, she stays alone in the hotel where she meets other guests and listen to their stories.
Love Bubbles
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Mujer de cabaret
Director of Photography
Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. But this Octavio turns to be a gambler and in a few months he loses all family's fortune. Alicia decided to come back to that cabaret and sing again. The cabaret owner Don Lalo wants her to be his love and his girlfriend Elena finds out about it. She kills him and makes people and police think that Alicia is guilty for this murder. Being imprisoned Alicia must find a prove that she's innocent. And the only prove is a VHS with the record of that murder which was stolen from Elena by her ex-lover. Alicia goes through beatings, humiliation, takes drugs and finally faces with Elena and her ex-lover to get the prove of her innocence...
The Trouble with Spies
Director of Photography
George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.
Nascido em Los Angeles
Director of Photography
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Tiras Especiais
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A dupla de policiais Berzak e Hazeltine é designada para escoltar uma testemunha que pode desarticular o tráfico de narcóticos em San Francisco. Mas a testemunha é assassinada durante o transporte, num ousado atentado realizado por helicóptero. Agora, para fazer justiça (e manter seus distintivos), os dois detetives terão que investigar por conta própria e chegar ao chefe da quadrilha.
Allan Quatermain e a Cidade do Ouro Perdido
Director of Photography
Após seu irmão Robeson (Martin Rabbett) desaparecer em meio a uma exploração na África, durante a busca pela lendária tribo branca, Allan Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) decide seguir seus passos para encontrá-lo. No caminho ele chega à cidade do ouro perdido, controlada pelo lorde Agon (Henry Silva), que a mantém através de seus escravos brancos.
Caminho de Fogo
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Max Donigan (Chuck Norris) parte em busca de um tesouro com o seu amigo Leo e a sua sócia Patricia. Quando encontram o templo com o tesouro de ouro, deparam um "caminho de fogo" que pretende reter o poder dos seus antepassados e pôr um ponto final à caça ao tesouro...
O Vingador
Director of Photography
Jack Murphy (Charles Bronson), um veterano detetive da polícia, atravessa uma fase na qual tudo está dando para ele. Primeiramente recebe uma ligação no qual uma mulher diz que vai matá-lo, mas antes transformará sua vida num inferno. Ele comete o erro de não dar importância para esta ligação. Depois, numa perseguição policial, mata Tony Vincenzo (Chris DeRose), o irmão do gângster Frank Vincenzo (Richard Romanus), e agora está marcado para morrer. Sua esposa o deixou e se tornou uma "dançarina exótica", mas logo ela e seu novo marido são assassinados. Jack é incriminado, preso, mas foge com Arabella McGee (Kathleen Wilhoite), uma marginal jovem e desbocada que foi presa por Jack. Ele agora precisa contar com a ajuda dela para poder provar sua inocência.
As Minas do Rei Salomão
Director of Photography
Na África do início do século 20, o aventureiro e caçador de tesouros Allan Quatermain é contratado pela jovem norte-americana Jesse Huston para procurar seu pai arqueólogo, que desapareceu enquanto organizava uma expedição às lendárias Minas do Rei Salomão. Além de diversos perigos, Quatermain e Jesse também enfrentarão um destacamento alemão, liderado pelo Coronel Bockner e um grupo de mercenários sob o comando do vilão turco Dogati. Todos eles em busca da fortuna em diamantes escondida no interior das minas.
Pequeno Tesouro
Director of Photography
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.
Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
Director of Photography
Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its up to Jocko, Chuck, Bob and their surfer buddies to save the day.
To Kill a Stranger
Director of Photography
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
Sorceress
Director of Photography
To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs away after giving birth with her twin daughters. Before dying, she hands the girls over to the warrior Krona who promises to raise them as great soldiers. Twenty years later, Traigon returns and begins hunting down his daughters once again. Will the twins, with the help of the Barbarian Erlik and the Viking Baldar, be able to defeat their father?
A Cabra
Director of Photography
Desde que nasceu, a vida de Marie Bens é um desastre atrás do outro. Ela resolve partir sozinha para a América do Sul. Assim que chega ao seu destino, desaparece sem deixar vestígios. Desesperado, o pai faz de tudo para encontrar a filha.
La seducción
Director of Photography
Demonoid: Messenger of Death
Director of Photography
A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possesses people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner.
Fade to Black
Director of Photography
A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
CaboBlanco
Director of Photography
O pacato vilarejo de Cabo Blanco perde o clima de paz com a chegada de um navio inglês. Um ex-combatente americano, que atualmente mora na região, se vê ameaçado pela beleza de uma viúva e a presença de um ex-oficial nazista, que chegam com a expedição.
Wolf Lake
Director of Photography
War veterans visit a lakeside cabin for a week of shooting, drinking, etc. but find the cabin being looked after by a young caretaker named David. When David's status as a war deserter is revealed, all hell breaks loose.
Na Linha de Fogo
Director of Photography
Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.
A Morte Ronda a Pantera
Director of Photography
Walter Thoren é um magnata que morre em um acidente em Acapulco, deixando um seguro de US$ 5 milhões. A companhia responsável pelo pagamento envia Jake, um detetive, para verificar se houve fraude. Jake então contrata Ellie, uma estonteante modelo, para se fazer passar por sua esposa. Os dois viajam para Acapulco e constatam que algo está errado. Enquanto a viúva está fria e distante, Jake e sua esposa tentam desvendar a intrincada trama.
Fuga de um Pesadelo
Director of Photography
Um grupo de jovens rebeldes vão para o deserto em busca de sexo e cerveja. Quando a caminhonete deles estraga, eles encontram um grupo de delinqüentes arruaceiros que lhes oferecem ajuda para esperarem o resgate. Torna-se logo evidente, que o resgate jamais chegará e os jovens terão que lutar por suas vidas desesperadamente.
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Director of Photography
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Uma Vida em Pecado
Director of Photography
The film dramatizes the life of Isabel "la Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer. Pablo, a Caribbean peasant, and Isabel, a politician's mistress, open a brothel that becomes internationally famous. Though they gain wealth and power, the one thing that Isabel seeks continues to elude her.
La Güera Rodríguez
Cinematography
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
El complot mongol
Director of Photography
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.
The Bricklayers
Director of Photography
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Las Poquianchis
Cinematography
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".
Kalimán in the Sinister World of Humanón
Director of Photography
Kalimán: Women want to be with him, men want to be him! That old adage fits this character. The superhero was huge in Mexico, the subject of comic books and a radio show that was as popular as the Shadow's was in the States. He's a very philosophical, peace loving man who uses his brains and heart as well as brawn in his capers.
The Heist
Director of Photography
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
No Oeste Muito Louco
Director of Photography
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Director of Photography
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Foxtrot
Director of Photography
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
A Chuva do Diabo
Director of Photography
Um líder de culto satanista é queimado vivo pela igreja local. Ele promete voltar para caçar e escravizar cada descendente de sua congregação, pelo poder do livro de contratos de sangue, no qual eles vendiam suas almas ao diabo.
Sexta-Feira
Director of Photography
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.
The Savage Is Loose
Director of Photography
A husband, wife and their son are stranded on a remote island with no way off; as the son grows older, sexual tensions emerge.
Looking for a Wall
Cinematography
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
Tragam-me a Cabeça de Alfredo Garcia
Director of Photography
Alfredo Garcia engravida a filha de um latifundiário mexicano que, revoltado, oferece 1 milhão de dólares por sua cabeça. Um músico arruinado descobre que o procurado já está morto e corta a cabeça do defunto para receber a recompensa.
National Mechanics
Director of Photography
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
El vals sin fin
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Vanessa
Director of Photography
A woman is dissatisfied with her husband and resorts to another woman.
Queen Doll
Director of Photography
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
A Divina Ira
Director of Photography
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.
Tú, yo, nosotros
Cinematography
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.
Um por Deus, Outro pelo Diabo
Director of Photography
Um filme de Western que marca a estréia de Sidney Poitier como diretor. Buck (Poitier), um ex-sargento Confederado da Cavalaria, escolta escravos libertos até a fronteira do Colorado. Junto com ele vai sua esposa (Ruby Dee) e um condenado picareta com uma bíblia na mão, chamado de O Padre (Belafonte). Atacados por racistas caçadores de recompensa, determinados a devolvê-los à sua antiga condição de escravos, Buck e seus seguidores têm que usar toda coragem para continuar seu caminho e ajudar a construir o Velho Oeste.
El águila descalza
Director of Photography
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.
Ya se quien eres (te he estado observando)
Director of Photography
A surreal romantic comedy
Espérame en Siberia, vida mía
Director of Photography
Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it.
Una vez en la noche
Cinematography
Emiliano Zapata
Director of Photography
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Director of Photography
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
Friar Juan
Cinematography
A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.
Andante
Cinematography
A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Director of Photography
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
El escuadrón del pánico
Director of Photography
The story of the 65th Infantry Regiment of the US Army composed almost entirely of Puerto Ricans and who participated in the Korean War, suffering heavy casualties.
Me casé con un cura
Director of Photography
Ángel Maura, a seminarian with an innate talent, has an ideal voice for singing. Offers of work and money arise, but Ángel rejects them because he wants to continue his preparation as a priest. His cousin of the same name, however, decides to impersonate him in order to gain fame and fortune. A fan of the singer begins to go out with him, but soon discovers that she is in love with the wrong person.
Agente 00 Sexy
Director of Photography
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
Chewing Gum
Director of Photography
Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them
La mujer de a seis litros
Director of Photography
Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."
Monday's Child
Director of Photography
The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her father mistakenly sent in a box of aid during a flood.
Gigantes em Luta
Camera Operator
O rancheiro Taw Jackson (John Wayne) sai da prisão disposto a se vingar de Frank Pierce (Bruce Cabot), que ficou com tudo o que era seu. Planejando assaltar um carregamento de ouro, Taw forma uma gangue com seu antigo inimigo Lomax (Kirk Douglas), um velho louco (Keenan Wynn), um índio (Howard Keel) e um jovem beberrão (Robert Walker Jr.).
Vírgenes de la nueva ola
Director of Photography
Los mediocres
Cinematography
La fiebre del deseo
Director of Photography
Blue Demon vs. the Satanic Power
Cinematography
The Blue Demon faces a murderous satanic hypnotist.
Los tres pecados
Director of Photography
Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
Director of Photography
Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.
Millonario a go-go
Director of Photography
Jíbaro Machuchal inherits a piece of land in Condado Beach. When he arrives, he finds a hotel has been built on his land.
Blue Demon
Cinematography
Wrestler vs mad-scientist with werewolf serum.
Uma Sombra na Janela
Director of Photography
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
Caña brava
Director of Photography
A sailor decides to marry his girlfriend, but her boss is in love with her and orders a beating for her boyfriend. Once the sailor regains consciousness, he is accused of murder and must flee. Once he gets to the port, however, he is beaten again, losing his memory as a consequence.
Operación Tiburón
Director of Photography
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.
Cuando acaba la noche
Director of Photography
In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
Bello amanecer
Director of Photography
The spectacular beauty of María awakens the most hot and crazy passions among all the men of the island, including Jorge and Roberto. The two fishermen will vie for her love, by any means necessary.
Yanco
Director of Photography
The engaging and sentimental tale begins when the little boy (Ricardo Ancona) starts manifesting a greater and greater talent at music and at the same time, a supersensitivity to sounds. His overly astute hearing drives him into the woods and away from the cacophony of the town's hustle and bustle. Once in the woods, he meets a kindly old hermit who teaches him how to play the violin he made. After the old man dies, the violin ends up at a pawn shop, and each night the boy sneaks in to play it in secret. It is this haunting, nightly music that sets the town on edge -- people think an evil spirit is on the loose.