Julio Alejandro

Фильмы

La leyenda de Rodrígo
Writer
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
La Güera Rodríguez
Writer
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
El hijo de Ángela María
Writer
The love of two young people is prevented by the envy and resentment of a greedy man and his evil son.
Faith, Hope and Charity
Adaptation
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Aunt Isabel's Garden
Writer
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Есения
Writer
Две девушки страстно любят бравого офицера Освальдо. Одна, живущая в роскоши, обладает ангельским характером и неизлечимо больна. Другая, воспитанная цыганами, с детства лишена всего, что принадлежит ей по праву. Можно ли найти выход из этого любовного треугольника? Черные очи и гибкий стан красавицы Есении навек сразили хладнокровного покорителя женщин, капитана Освальдо... Его величество Случай вмешивается в их судьбу... Экзотика цыганской жизни, трагическая любовь и счастливый финал...
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Himself
Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.
Rosas blancas para mi hermana negra
Story
The story revolves around Laura, a white singer, and Angustias, her longtime black friend, with both mothers dedicated to the education of their daughters: Alicia and Roberta. Trouble ensues when Laura’s daughter, Alicia, falls in love with Ricardo, a young black medical student.
Тристана
Writer
После смерти матери Тристана оказывается под опекой своего не вполне бескорыстного дяди дона Лопе и вскоре сбегает от него с молодым художником Орасио. Разворачивается история соблазнения и возмездия.
Memories of the Future
Writer
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
Santa
Writer
A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.
The Prodigal Son
Adaptation
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
María Isabel
Writer
A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
Симеон столпник
Dialogue
Фильм-притча, герой которого — духовный искатель, соблюдающий жесткую аскезу, — противостоит искушениям дьявола, являющегося к нему в разных обличьях. Это борьба Симона продолжается с давних времен до наших дней.
Симеон столпник
Screenplay
Фильм-притча, герой которого — духовный искатель, соблюдающий жесткую аскезу, — противостоит искушениям дьявола, являющегося к нему в разных обличьях. Это борьба Симона продолжается с давних времен до наших дней.
Los cuervos están de luto
Screenplay
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
Autumn Days
Adaptation
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...
Ткач чудес
Screenplay
В ночь под рождество в маленькую мексиканскую деревушку въезжают на осле индеец Арнульфо и его жена Хансита, которая с минуты на минуту должна родить. Местная акушерка Ремедиос и ее воспитанник, двадцатилетний Теофилос, решили использовать создавшуюся ситуацию в своих корыстных целях. И вот по деревне разнесся слух, что в хлеву у Ремедиос рожает женщина, приехавшая на осле как дева Мария. Охваченные религиозным фанатизмом, крстьяне кинулись к дому Ремедиос. Они верят, что совершается чудо, что «новый» Христос, который должен родиться, принесет всем счастье и благосостояние. Не скупясь, они дают Ремедиос и Теофилосу деньги для будущего ребенка. Священник не в силах доказать фанатичной толпе, что родился самый обыкновенный ребенок. И тогда он идет на крайние меры: незаметно умерщвляет ребенка. Виля, что новорожденный оказался смертным, толпа верующих быстро расходится.
Heaven and Earth
Writer
Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Azahares rojos
Screenplay
Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.
Виридиана
Screenplay
Дядя Виридианы, обеспечивший своей племяннице обучение, очень хочет видеть её в своём замке до того, как она пострижётся в монахини. На самом деле дядя давно влюблён в свою племянницу. Эта страсть так потрясает Виридиану, что она принимает решение не возвращаться в монастырь.
Senda prohibida
Screenplay
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Póker de reinas
Adaptation
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Póker de reinas
Story
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
La estrella vacía
Writer
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
The Sin of a Mother
Writer
A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...
Gutierritos
Writer
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
El vestido de novia
Adaptation
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Nazarin
Screenplay
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.
El caso de una adolescente
Writer
The New Invisible Man
Writer
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
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.
El diario de mi madre
Adaptation
Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result.
Yambaó
Writer
A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
La Diana cazadora
Writer
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
La dulce enemiga
Writer
The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
Happy Year, My Love
Writer
Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
Golden Wedding
Writer
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
De carne somos
Writer
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
La vida tiene tres días
Writer
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Love in Four Parts
Adaptation
Anthology film, four episodes.
El caso de la mujer asesinadita
Writer
Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
El vendedor de muñecas
Screenplay
A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.
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.
Si volvieras a mi
Writer
Wuthering Heights
Story
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Padre nuestro
Story
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Eugenia Grandet
Screenplay
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Eugenia Grandet
Adaptation
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Cinnamon Skin
Screenplay
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
Mujeres que trabajan
Adaptation
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Fruto prohibido
Writer
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
Fruto prohibido
Adaptation
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
La cobarde
Adaptation
A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.
Siete mujeres
Screenplay
Mexican feature film
La alegre casada
Writer
Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.
Mujeres sin mañana
Writer
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.