Felipe Cazals
Nascimento : 1937-07-28, Mexico City, Mexico
Morte : 2021-10-16
História
Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.
Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies.
Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
Producer
Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.
Writer
Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.
Director
Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.
Writer
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Director
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Director
1903, before the Revolution
The Citrillos Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions love, betrayal, jealousy, pillage- in an atmosphere of drunkenness and hallucination.
Screenplay
1903, before the Revolution
The Citrillos Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions love, betrayal, jealousy, pillage- in an atmosphere of drunkenness and hallucination.
Screenplay
The life and work of Mexican lawyer Digna Ochoa, from her first kidnapping at the hands of the police to her murder.
Director
The life and work of Mexican lawyer Digna Ochoa, from her first kidnapping at the hands of the police to her murder.
Consulting Producer
Flama e Moko são dois garotos de 14 anos que se conhecem desde crianças e vivem na Cidade do México. A dupla tem tudo para enfrentar mais um entediante domingo: um apartamento sem nenhum pai, muitos videogames, revistas de pornografia, refrigerantes e pizzas. Porém, a companhia de eletricidade, o vizinho Ulisses, uma pintura horrível de patos, onze segundos, o jogo do Real Madri contra o Manchester e alguns biscoitos de chocolate são suficientes para acabar com a paz dos dois adolescentes. Nessa confusão, vêm à tona assuntos como divórcio, solidão, amizade e outros problemas da vida adulta.
Screenplay
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the 19th century president of Mexico who, in 1847, waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
Director
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the 19th century president of Mexico who, in 1847, waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
Thanks
Um zelador que se tornou prefeito de uma cidadezinha perdida no deserto do México percebe aonde o seu recém-adquirido poder e a corrupção podem levá-lo, depois da visita de um esperto político.
Screenplay
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Director
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Director
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.
Director
Director
On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on.
Director
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
Director
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
Director
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
Director
Mexican feature film
Director
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.
Director
A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.
Director
The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes
Director
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.
Mexican feature film
Producer
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)
Director
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)
Director
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
Director
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".
Director
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.
Director
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.
Writer
Survey documentary that collects various oral testimonies about the life of the Seris, a small ethnic group in the state of Sonora, Mexico.
Director
Survey documentary that collects various oral testimonies about the life of the Seris, a small ethnic group in the state of Sonora, Mexico.
Senador Cap. Morgan
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Writer
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Director
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Director
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Director
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Writer
Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.
Producer
Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.
Salesman
Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.
Director
Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.
Producer
A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
Cinematography
A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
Writer
A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
Director
A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
Director
Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
