Adolfo Torres Portillo

Filmes

Entre compadres te veas
Screenplay
After a year spent mourning his wife's death, a father and two sons cut loose for some wild living. Loose remake of Los Tres Alegres Compadres.
El diablo, el santo y el tonto
Screenplay
Antes de morrer, um velho revela a seu filho Refugio (Vicente Fernández) que tem dois meio-irmãos (também interpretados por Fernández), a quem deve procurar para distribuir a herança (o bar, o hospital e o rancho). . Os três irmãos são idênticos, mas com personagens muito diferentes, o que causa mal-entendidos entre eles.
El diablo, el santo y el tonto
Story
Antes de morrer, um velho revela a seu filho Refugio (Vicente Fernández) que tem dois meio-irmãos (também interpretados por Fernández), a quem deve procurar para distribuir a herança (o bar, o hospital e o rancho). . Os três irmãos são idênticos, mas com personagens muito diferentes, o que causa mal-entendidos entre eles.
El rey de la vecindad
Writer
Sentimental comedy about ups and downs in a working-class neighborhood.
Nosotros los pelados
Story
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
Nosotros los pelados
Adaptation
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
Ya nunca más
Adaptation
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.
Una pura y dos con sal
Script
Young woman engineers a reconciliation between her long-estranged parents.
Mexico 2000
Writer
In Olympus the Gods decide to exterminate humanity, after deliberating one of the gods advocates not to exterminate those who live in Mexico, which in the year 2000 is a paradise where all calamities have been extinguished.
Lagunilla 2
Story
Lagunilla 2
Screenplay
Lagunilla, mi barrio
Writer
After 42 years of working as an antiquarian , Abel is fired by the children of his recently deceased employer; however, after this unexpected situation that leaves him in solitude and with little chance to get a new job, he decides to start again as antiques dealer in the popular Lagunilla market . There he will find real friends ; a humble life and, above all , a new opportunity to fall in love regardless of social differences.
El héroe desconocido
Adaptation
An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.
Rigo is Love
Screenplay
Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.
Rigo is Love
Story
Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.
Los 3 reyes magos
Screenplay
The biblical story about the magical wizards that come to visit little baby Jesus when he was born.
Los 3 reyes magos
Director
The biblical story about the magical wizards that come to visit little baby Jesus when he was born.
De sangre chicana
Writer
Young Mexican-American studies for his MD and triumphs as a professional wrestler while his brother and sister stagnate in the barrio.
El hijo del pueblo
Story
At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he's fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon, a group of city-folk are stranded on his property and dependent on him for help and sustenance.
El principio
Papá Juan
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Entre monjas anda el Diablo
Screenplay
A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.
Entre monjas anda el Diablo
Writer
A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.
Santo vs. the Head Hunters
Writer
Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead
A Secretary's Intimacies
Producer
Mexican feature film
A Secretary's Intimacies
Writer
Mexican feature film
La Hermanita Dinamita
Story
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
La Hermanita Dinamita
Screenplay
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
El cuerpazo del delito
Writer
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
The Young Animals
Screenplay
A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
El último pistolero
Writer
The Vampire Girls
Screenplay
A wrestler tries to break up a covey of vampires, led by the King of Vampires.
Hellish Spiders
Writer
Arácnea's residents have been desperately searching for a source of food to save the life of their queen (a big spider). Earth is chosen, since human brains are apparently like health food for alien spiders.
Los canallas
Idea
A líder e vilã do filme se chama Kadena, uma garota desonesta, que é o verdadeiro negócio da gangue "Hell's Angels" e cujo objetivo é matar as Mil Máscaras, enviando para a prisão seu consentido. O que força nosso herói a lutar contra o mal e o mal.
Retablos de la Guadalupana
Writer
From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles.
Alazán y enamorado
Writer
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
El dinamitero
Screenplay
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
Writer
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
Adaptation
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
Story
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
O Cavalinho Branco
Story
Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends.
O Cavalinho Branco
Screenplay
Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends.
The Crying Woman
Writer
A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
Me importa poco
Story
Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
Dos gallos en palenque
Writer
Venezuelan guy and Mexican rancher get competitive toward each other -- mostly over "the girl".
Papai Noel
Writer
Papai Noel, muito acima do Pólo Norte em seu castelo nas nuvens, se prepara para entregar presentes na noite de natal. Papai Noel está especialmente interessado em ajudar Lupita, a filha de uma família pobre que não quer nada mais do que uma boneca ; e um jovem menino cujos pais são tão ricos que eles nunca passam tempo com ele. Contudo, o diabo envia seu lacaio, Pitch, para arruinar os planos de Papai Noel. Pitch, por sua vez, recruta três meninos malvados para ajudá-lo a colocar armadilhas para Papai Noel.
With my finger on the trigger
Writer
The Private detective Raúl Marín with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides in three episodes: El Anónimo, El Ídolo and El Hipnotizador.
Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Writer
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
The Marked Woman
Story
Beautiful woman with disfiguring facial scars learns to cope.
O Grão de Milho
Screenplay
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
Doña Perfecta
Production Manager
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.