Roberto Gavaldón

Roberto Gavaldón

Nascimento : 1909-06-07, Jimenez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Morte : 1986-09-04

História

Roberto Gavaldón was a Mexican film director. Eight of Gavaldón's films were featured on the list 100 Best Movies of the Cinema of Mexico. His 1958 film Ash Wednesday was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and his 1959 film Beyond All Limits was entered into the following years festival. His 1960 film Macario was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not win.

Perfil

Roberto Gavaldón

Filmes

Viva México y sus corridos
Director
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
Cuando tejen las arañas
Director
Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.
Las del talon
Director
At The Play Boy strip club, everybody's got a story. Owners, employees, customers...
La playa vacía
Director
Ends the season and Victoria, widow, mature and owns the beachside motel, does not want to spend another winter alone. To avoid it, buy the company of Paul to continue working for her. Paul agrees, provided remain free and enjoy other women. Days after reaching the motel Gloria, a beautiful biologist who claims to be working on a book and, to the surprise of Paul, seems to know everything about Victoria and her past.
Las cenizas del diputado
Director
A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own.
The Fungi Man
Writer
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.
The Fungi Man
Director
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.
La madrastra
Director
In Segovia at the beginning of the thirties the hoarder widower and Marcos must be prudent but has relations with the sterile prostitute Mercedes every week.
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Associate Producer
Dom Quixote é obcecado pela cavalaria e seus códigos de honra. Juntamente com seu escudeiro singular Sancho Panza, Dom Quixote lembra as aventuras que eles compartilharam.
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Director
Dom Quixote é obcecado pela cavalaria e seus códigos de honra. Juntamente com seu escudeiro singular Sancho Panza, Dom Quixote lembra as aventuras que eles compartilharam.
Doña Macabra
Executive Producer
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Doña Macabra
Director
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Las figuras de arena
Director
Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Producer
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Writer
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
Director
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
Los hijos que yo soñé
Director
Grieving widow finds new purpose in life as director of an orphanage.
The Golden Cockerel
Screenplay
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
The Golden Cockerel
Director
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
Autumn Days
Director
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
The White Rose
Screenplay
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
The White Rose
Director
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
El siete de copas
Adaptation
Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
El siete de copas
Director
Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
Macario
Writer
O pobre e faminto camponês Macario sente saudades de uma boa refeição. Então, no Dia de Finados, a esposa prepara um peru assado. Na hora do jantar, Macario recebe a vista de três espíritos: o Diabo, Deus e a Morte. Cada um quer dividir o peru com Macario, mas ele só oferece a comida a Morte. Como recompensa, a Morte dá a ele uma garrafa de água capaz de curar qualquer doença. Logo Macario está mais saudável do que qualquer um na cidade. Mas isso desperta a atenção da população e, mais que isso, causa medo a todos, levando Macario a uma verdadeira inquisição.
Macario
Director
O pobre e faminto camponês Macario sente saudades de uma boa refeição. Então, no Dia de Finados, a esposa prepara um peru assado. Na hora do jantar, Macario recebe a vista de três espíritos: o Diabo, Deus e a Morte. Cada um quer dividir o peru com Macario, mas ele só oferece a comida a Morte. Como recompensa, a Morte dá a ele uma garrafa de água capaz de curar qualquer doença. Logo Macario está mais saudável do que qualquer um na cidade. Mas isso desperta a atenção da população e, mais que isso, causa medo a todos, levando Macario a uma verdadeira inquisição.
Beyond All Limits
Director
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
Ash Wednesday
Writer
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
Ash Wednesday
Director
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
La rebelión de la sierra: El Fin de Heraclio Bernal
Director
El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal
Director
Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.
Here is Heraclius Bernal
Director
Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
The Hidden One
Writer
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star runs the emotional gamut as Gabriela, who rises from the depths of poverty to the heights of Mexican society as a much-sought-after courtesan. Eventually, however, Gabriela proves that she is still true to her peasant heritage by casting her lot with the rebels in the 1916 Mexican civil war. Pedro Armendariz co-stars as Felipe, the charismatic rebel leader who wins Gabriela's heart - and inadvertently causes her downfall. La escondida is stunningly photographed by the late, great Gabriel Figueroa.
The Hidden One
Adaptation
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star runs the emotional gamut as Gabriela, who rises from the depths of poverty to the heights of Mexican society as a much-sought-after courtesan. Eventually, however, Gabriela proves that she is still true to her peasant heritage by casting her lot with the rebels in the 1916 Mexican civil war. Pedro Armendariz co-stars as Felipe, the charismatic rebel leader who wins Gabriela's heart - and inadvertently causes her downfall. La escondida is stunningly photographed by the late, great Gabriel Figueroa.
The Hidden One
Director
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star runs the emotional gamut as Gabriela, who rises from the depths of poverty to the heights of Mexican society as a much-sought-after courtesan. Eventually, however, Gabriela proves that she is still true to her peasant heritage by casting her lot with the rebels in the 1916 Mexican civil war. Pedro Armendariz co-stars as Felipe, the charismatic rebel leader who wins Gabriela's heart - and inadvertently causes her downfall. La escondida is stunningly photographed by the late, great Gabriel Figueroa.
Historia de un amor
Director
Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.
O Indomável Vagabundo
Director
O pequeno Pablito é o filho de dez anos de idade de uma malvada treinadora de cavalos. Ela é responsável por ensinar o cavalo de um general mexicado a pular para uma corrida. Os métodos da treinadora fazem o cavalo ficar com medo de pular e o general ordena a morte do animal. Pablito foge com o cavalo, tornando-se um foragido. Ele viaja pelo México encontrando vários outros foragidos e um padre que tenta ajudá-lo.
De carne somos
Writer
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
De carne somos
Director
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
Después de la tormenta
Writer
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Después de la tormenta
Director
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Untouched
Writer
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
Untouched
Director
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
Camelia
Screenplay
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
Camelia
Director
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
The Boy and the Fog
Writer
Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
The Boy and the Fog
Director
Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
The Three Perfect Married
Screenplay
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
The Three Perfect Married
Director
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
Remember to Live
Director
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Soledad's Shawl
Screenplay
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Soledad's Shawl
Director
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Night Falls
Writer
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
Night Falls
Director
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
In the Palm of Your Hand
Writer
A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat? Perhaps the greatest thriller ever made in Mexico, starring Arturo de Córdova and Leticia Palma.
In the Palm of Your Hand
Director
A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat? Perhaps the greatest thriller ever made in Mexico, starring Arturo de Córdova and Leticia Palma.
Desired
Writer
A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
Desired
Director
A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.
Mi vida por la tuya
Writer
During a mother's dream comes up Gloria Rivas as a vamp who crushes her son's life.
Mi vida por la tuya
Director
During a mother's dream comes up Gloria Rivas as a vamp who crushes her son's life.
The Love Nest
Writer
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
The Love Nest
Director
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
Rosauro Castro
Producer
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Rosauro Castro
Screenplay
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Rosauro Castro
Director
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Han matado a Tongolele
Director
Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?
A la sombra del puente
Director
Adventures of Casanova
Director
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one of the patriots, Lorenzo, and desires to escape from the palace. Her lady-in-waiting, Zanetta, enlists the aid of Casanova and he rescues them and takes them to the partisan's camp. The rebels are victorious. Lady Bianca makes plans to marry Lorenzo, and Casanova and Zanetta have similar plans.
The Kneeling Goddess
Adaptation
Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.
The Kneeling Goddess
Director
Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.
La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra
Director
The Other
Director
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
The Other
Screenplay
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Rayando el sol
Director
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
El socio
Director
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
The Barracks
Director
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
Naná
Writer
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
Naná
Director
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
Caminito alegre
Assistant Director
An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.
El baisano Jalil
Director
Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
El conde de Montecristo
Director
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Rancho Alegre
Assistant Director
Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college to set things aright... or does he have other plans?
La bestia negra
Assistant Director
Comedy/drama about railroad workers.
La tierra del mariachi
Assistant Director
Young woman's father, with the help of the boyfriend he prefers for her, spreads a rumor that the guy she likes better was already married.
Ave sin rumbo
Assistant Director
A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
El derecho y el deber
Assistant Director
Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man.
Cielito lindo
Co-Director
A 1936 film.
The Dead Speak
Assistant Director
Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unpleasant way of helping them do this.
Prisoner 13
Prisoner
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.