Roberto Cobo
Рождение : 1930-02-20, General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Смерть : 2002-08-02
История
Roberto Cobo was born on February 20, 1930 in General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico as Roberto Garcia Romero. He was an actor, known for Los olvidados (1950), Dulces compañías (1996) and Subida al cielo (1952).
His apartment collapsed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Fortunately, he was rescued but his hip was damaged badly. He had to use a staff to walk after the earthquake.
He died on August 2, 2002 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Sebastian
Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour has arisen as a result of a contact with a single man when Francisco was 9 years old. This man, Sebastien, is an "artist" who initially claimed to want to photograph the boy, but it is clear that their relationship at one time extended far beyond that of photographer/model.
Melquíades
Будучи мятежным подростком, выросшим в Мексике в начале 1980-х, Хорхе подружился с необычной затворницей-пенсионеркой Эсперансой после того, как прокрался в её дом за футбольным мячом, полагая, что дом заброшен. По мере того, как Хорхе ищет убежища от своих повседневных проблем дома и в школе, он находит покой в компании мудрой старой незнакомки, их связь укрепляется, и Эсперанса учит молодого нарушителя спокойствия ценности жизни и чудесам своего мексиканского наследия. Вскоре после этого Эсперанса скончалась, и юный Хорхе применяет её мудрость и пытается найти наилучшее решение для своей жизненной ситуации. 15 лет спустя, просматривая новости, Хорхе замечает фото своего старого друга, когда репортер скорбно рассказывает о годовщине смерти первой латиноамериканской женщины, получившей Нобелевскую премию по литературе.
Tomasito
Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.
Loco
Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.
Paolo
Bruno, a young prostitute on the streets of Mexico city, spends his free time yearning for his straight friend Umberto. When Umberto rejects him, Bruno reacts with his own violent and misguided actions...
Doña Trini
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.
After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.
Don Virginio, poet husband
Эсмеральда замужем за пятью мужчинами одновременно, и теперь ей предстоит объяснить судье, как это вышло.
Evil street hustler plays out elaborate psychodramas with his janes and johns. They end up regretting they invited him home with them.
Lozoya
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite.
A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life
Jacinto
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
Padre de Gaby
Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask him to be a couple again.
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
Three part anthology with stories involving a Phantom of the Opera-style killer haunting a theater, four punks who pick the wrong house to rob and a man on the hunt for Bigfoot.
Aging rancher reaches out to absorb an illegitimate son from long ago into his family. That son turns out to be a big ol' hairdresser; will he ever fit into the rodeoin' machista ranch society?
Francisco
Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.
Mexican feature film
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Sultan
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
El Hombre sin brazos
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
Daniel
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Flor de Lis
The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol.
Chava
Mexican feature film
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
Chinche
Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood.
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
El Mandril
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Gallito
Бывший преступник шантажирован коррумпированным полицейским и вынужден совершить преступление.
Ricardo Pórtico
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.
'El Saltaperico'
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
El Cantante
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.
La Manuela
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
El Apostol, paciente Manicomio
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
Ingeniero Carlos Jiménez
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Alberto
A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might deter them.
Alberto
Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
Lic. Silva
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.
Juan
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Mambo nightclub is a front for gangster activity.
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Gabucho
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
Novio de Gloria
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
El Jaibo
История юного Педро, который растет в трущобах Мехико. Там мальчик каждый день сталкивается с криминальным миром, подвергающим испытанию его только формирующиеся жизненные ценности.
Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
Boy (uncredited)
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
Classic movie of Mexican cinema.