Nacho Méndez
Nascimento : 1939-01-02, Mexico City, Mexico
História
Mexican musician, composer, actor and playwright. He lived in Mexico from 1939 to 1964; in Brazil from January to May 1964; in Spain from May to December of the same year; in Mexico from 1965 to 1968; in California, USA, from 1968 to 1970; in Sweden in 1970; in Spain in 1971; in Mexico from 1971 to 1989; in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, from 1982 to 1994 and, from then on, in Mexico City.
He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Música of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and at the Escuela Libre de Música. He also studied with maestro Moacir Santos in Brazil.
He began his artistic career in 1959, in Mexico, in the group "Los Vocalistas".
His first composition was the "Jingle" Burbujita de la Sal de Uvas Picot.
The work with which he has obtained greater satisfaction is the music of the film "Angeles y Querubines". He has composed some songs in co-authorship with Raúl Astor, Paco Ignacio Taibo and Germán Dehesa.
He was awarded the Diosa de Plata for best film music for the movie "Ángeles y Querubines".
Diosa de Plata for best film music, for the film "Víbora Caliente".
Ariel for best film music, for the film "Las Noches de Paloma".
Within his professional activity, he has scored forty-seven feature films. He has written original music for six theatrical plays; four themes for television programs, and more than one hundred "jingles" or commercials.
Monica is a rich swiss girl who is kidnapped with a university teacher. Together they discuss their future and their ideas about life.
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Monica is a rich swiss girl who is kidnapped with a university teacher. Together they discuss their future and their ideas about life.
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Baseball sketch, restaurant sketch, store-detective sketch, lucha libre sketch. Remake of No me defiendes, compadre.
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Lorena wife of the taxi driver Juan Camaney , annoyed by his amorous adventures , accepts work as a photographer's model . John is involved in crimes actually committed two guys who take their taxi when he is not . His wife and two friends help him go free but seeing that follows adventurer, marries Lorena photographer and goes abroad . Juan only asks you to send fayuca .
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The story is about Katy, now grown up as a lovely butterfly, and her children, young twin caterpillars names Kiki and Koko, facing off against aliens who came to their forest searching for food which happens to be inhabitants of the forest. With the help of their friends, Katy, Kiki and Koko were able to defeat the alien X and save their forest and its inhabitants. The sequel to "Katy the Caterpillar."
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Lucerito is a teenager of 17 who lives in a gloomy castle that belongs to her aunt Raymunda, her tutor and executor, too. Raymunda is very strict and scold and she makes Lucerito's life impossible and she wants to marry her to Don Gastón forcely. One day Lucerito watched on TV a contest, where the one who gives the pize of "Queen for one day" is Manuel, an old friend. She decided to sneak out and travel to the capital to participate in the contest; on this journey she meets several characters and experience unexpected adventures.
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Strange things are happening in the carriers' guild: a madman has sown death and paranoia among the truck drivers, and Mario hasn't been himself lately: he's excessively serious and he no longer has a sense of humor. In the midst of the collective hysteria, Fernando begins to doubt his brother Mario, and the fear and the murders continue until there is an attempted rape. Mario also has his doubts about Fernando, and a detective embarks on the investigation with a team of agents disguised as truck drivers to find the real culprit, with results that range from the obvious to the unintentionally humorous.
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Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
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A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
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Uma adolescente apaixonada por uma jovem estrela da música popular entra sorrateiramente em sua casa para realizar seus sonhos de conhecê-lo. Juntos, eles acidentalmente encontram um grupo de contrabandistas de diamantes e ela se torna vítima de um sequestro.
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The sequel to 'La muerte del chacal' finds the murderer from the first film still alive, and back to kill more unsuspecting victims. His brother is once again out to stop him.
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Katy Caterpillar lives in a cherry tree deep in the forest, but she longs to see the wide world. When she finally gets her chance, she meets lots of fascinating characters along the way.
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A quaint small town is terrorized by a group of sadistic bikers.
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A psycho-killer is on the loose targeting only young women. Grisly deaths pile up, one after another. The real problem is not finding out who he is, but instead, how to stop him.
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Charrito (Roberto Gómez Bolaños) interpreta um vilão de um filme de ação do velho oeste que está sendo gravado em um pequeno vilarejo. Ele é totalmente desastrado e irrita o diretor (Rubén Aguirre). Estrellita Perez (María Antonieta de las Nieves) tem o papel principal, pois seu pai (Víctor Alcocer) é o produtor do filme, e, por conta disso, ela se acha superior ao resto do elenco. Muitas confusões são causadas no pacífico vilarejo, ainda mais depois que Charrito captura bandidos reais, os Irmãos Brothers (Benny Ibarra e Arturo García Tenorio).
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Um jovem adolescente apaixonado por esportes e canto fica gravemente ferido em um acidente de motocicleta. A história gira em torno de seu choque com a forma como sua vida mudou e sua dificuldade em lidar com sua nova realidade. O menino, interpretado pelo cantor latino Luis Miguel aos 14 anos, canta várias canções do filme.
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Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.
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A tap dancing exterminator is mistaken for an out-of-town hit man by two rival gangs, each hoping to acquire his services.
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Newlywed couple loses their moral compasses while hubby climbs the career ladder in a corrupt office.
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Spur-of-the-moment nightclub hookup leaves a straying husband framed for a murder.
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Aspiring actress finds herself sidetracked from her goals when she gets romanced-up by her director. It's all downhill from there.
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In "Sabor a Sangre" (literally, "Flavor of Blood"), Antonio Aguilar plays Mauricio Rosales, whom along his good friend Chelelo (Eleazar García) are traveling towards another friend's ranch. During their trip, they find the dead bodies of a group of men, so they take them to the next town hoping to find some answers. At the town, they are informed that the dead men were a posse sent by police chief Rómulo (José Gálvez) to kill "El Tigre", a mysterious serial killer who has been hunting down the townspeople, viciously killing even women and children. (cont. http://w-cinema.blogspot.de/2008/03/sabor-sangre-1977.html)
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Young man emigrates to Texas to join his brother. Brother's dead. He makes friends with brother's girlfriend and they start a business together. But there's bad dudes that don't like him.
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Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...
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Deceived over and over again by the whole world, a woman does not want to give up in the face of life's adversities.
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The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up.
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While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.
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Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
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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.
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On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
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Pre-teen boy faces bullying, discovers porn, deals with family conflicts.
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The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
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A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.
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O criminoso El Topo desafia os invencíveis Quatro Mestres do Deserto pelo amor de uma mulher, e acaba vencendo. Seu nível de consciência aumenta, mas, entretanto, ele é traído pela mulher. Começando uma nova existência como homem santo, El Topo se compromete a libertar uma comunidade de excluídos.
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O criminoso El Topo desafia os invencíveis Quatro Mestres do Deserto pelo amor de uma mulher, e acaba vencendo. Seu nível de consciência aumenta, mas, entretanto, ele é traído pela mulher. Começando uma nova existência como homem santo, El Topo se compromete a libertar uma comunidade de excluídos.
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The story of a young woman falling for an older man.
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Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro
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Em um pequeno povoado, vive Dámaso, um vagabundo mantido por Ana, sua esposa, que é mais velha do que ele e que está grávida. Uma noite, ele entra no salão de Don Ubaldo, e leva três bolas de brilhar, isso é tudo que encontra por lá. A culpa recai sobre um forasteiro e, o crime gera uma grande crise na cidade, especialmente entre os homens, pois o bilhar é sua única diversão. Adaptação do conto de Gabriel García Márquez.
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Teenager covers for his no-count older brother. Ice-cream parlors, rock-n-roll dances, football games, jalopies and racing cars. Also tragedy.
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Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
