Ramón Menéndez
Nascimento : 1941-01-01, Mieres, Asturias, Spain
Morte : 2007-01-01
História
Luis Ramón Menéndez Velasco was an actor.
Teleplay
Professora de dança reúne um grupo de meninas com diferentes características físicas e psicológicas e busca ensiná-las a lidar melhor com seus corpos, seus medos, os desafios impostos pela sociedade e a usar todo o seu potencial.
Director
Professora de dança reúne um grupo de meninas com diferentes características físicas e psicológicas e busca ensiná-las a lidar melhor com seus corpos, seus medos, os desafios impostos pela sociedade e a usar todo o seu potencial.
Writer
Três irmãs adultas, Maribel, Leticia e Carmen, tentam viver com o pai, um chefe de cozinha que aos poucos está perdendo o paladar. A única regra de Martin é que todos compareçam ao jantar dos domingos. A família começa a se desentender quando as irmãs encontram novos relacionamentos e uma mulher intragável se interessa por Martin.
Screenplay
Um desempregado da Filadélfia encontra uma grande soma de dinheiro que caiu de um veículo blindado. Baseado em uma história real.
Director
Um desempregado da Filadélfia encontra uma grande soma de dinheiro que caiu de um veículo blindado. Baseado em uma história real.
Mario Almada returns as "el fiscal de hierro", in this entry his family is kidnapped by gang leader Ramona Pineda.
Commandante Farias
Writer
O professor Jaime Escalante tenta educar uma classe de alunos problemáticos em um bairro pobre de Los Angeles. Para motivar os jovens, a maioria de ascendência mexicana como ele, o professor resolve apelar para sua própria herança cultural. Assim, ele evoca latino-americanos famosos por seus feitos para demonstrar a importância do aprendizado na conquista da cidadania. Paulatinamente, a maré vira a seu favor.
Director
O professor Jaime Escalante tenta educar uma classe de alunos problemáticos em um bairro pobre de Los Angeles. Para motivar os jovens, a maioria de ascendência mexicana como ele, o professor resolve apelar para sua própria herança cultural. Assim, ele evoca latino-americanos famosos por seus feitos para demonstrar a importância do aprendizado na conquista da cidadania. Paulatinamente, a maré vira a seu favor.
Gregorio
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman.
In the 16th century, an envoy from the pope and the king of Spain arrives in New Spain to deal with the case of Augustinian Alonso, in a state of autism by ingesting herbs given to him by the native Tlacuilo Camistli, who has been accused of sorcery. The envoy speaks with him and asks for the grass and ingesting it can communicate with Alonso, who contemplates in an internal vision a shining light that reflects the divine goodness. The envoy gets a dagger to Camistli and he takes his life. The envoy destroys the memorials he would send to Europe and decides to stay.
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Kinet (uncredited)
Em 10.190 D.C., um duque e sua família são mandados pelo Imperador para Arrakis, um árido planeta conhecido como Duna, que tem uma matéria essencial às viagens interplanetárias: a Especiaria. O motivo desta mudança é que o Imperador planeja destruir o duque e sua família, mas seu filho escapa e procura se vingar usando a ecologia deste mundo como uma de suas armas.
Jack
Mexican feature film
Mexican feature film
During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.
Teniente
Fiscal
In a small western town, a father obliges a doctor to separate two conjoined twins in a very hazardous operation. One of the children dies but years after seems to have survived as his brother's second personality.
Luis
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Camera director
A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
A successful lawyer has his life shattered when his beautiful wife is found murdered. An investigation reveals she was lying to him and leading a double life... but who killed her?
Sr. Rice
Bank employee
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Mexican feature film
Dr. Miguel Garzón Riera
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic. (IMDb)
Minero compadre
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
El Johnny
Diógenes, o patrulheiro 777, é constantemente repreendido pelo seu chefe, major Malagón, porque ele geralmente resolve os casos que surgem como vigia na Cidade do México com métodos muito pessoais. Diógenes, um membro do carro-patrulha 2101, resolve um problema conjugal que faz serenata à namorada de um passageiro ou impede, em risco de sua vida, que um garoto desesperado se jogue na rua a partir do 7.º andar.
Minister
A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
Venustiano Carranza
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Dávila, policía
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.
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.
Cap. Genaro Chacón
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Gen. Santiago Vidaurri
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Helicopter Pilot
Professor Bruno Volpi spots some strange paintings on a cliff. He sends for Professor Zovek to help him discover its meaning. Zovek uses his powers to figure the writings are a warning that a cosmic tragedy is going to happen. Their fears prove to be true when a fire ball falls from the skies causing the ressurrection of the dead as zombies, craving for human flesh.
Fotógrafo
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Johnny
Fidencio Barrenillo (Cantinflas) parte para o Arizona em busca de uma antiga mina de prata que pertencia ao seu bisavô. Mas logo após atravessar a fronteira é capturado pelos apaches com a intenção de sacrificá-lo. Felizmente para ele, o chefe tribal sofre uma terrível dor de dente e manda suspender a execução até novo aviso. Fidencio então vê uma clara oportunidade de se livrar da morte e cura o chefe indiano, tornando-se imediatamente o filho adotivo da tribo. Mais tarde, ele viajará para a cidade de Hot Dog Springs e encontrará mais problemas. Lá, o bandido do mal Pat O'Connor e a sua quadrilha de pistoleiros esperam por ele, que lhe causará muito mais problemas do que os índios.
A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
Mexican feature film