Alfonso Arau Movies

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kati Székely

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chevy Chase

A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Woody Allen

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michael Douglas

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jorge Rivero

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.

Genre: Western

Cast: Kirk Douglas

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ignacio López Tarso

A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfonso Arau

Pablo Rueda, a frustrated writer and artist, wanders through Mexico City in a labyrinth of dreams and memories that may or may not be those of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Humberto Zurita

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Genre: Western

Cast: Brian Keith

In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kitty de Hoyos

Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After...

Genre: Family

Cast: Steve Guttenberg

"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Sim­ple­men­te, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the grea­test com­de­dian-​ac­tors in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Germán Valdés

Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost...

Genre: Action

Cast: Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julián Pastor

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Genre: Western

Cast: William Holden

Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Wilmer Valderrama

A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenn Close

A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.

Genre: Western

Cast: Willie Nelson

Mexican feature film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luz María Aguilar

"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emilio Fernández

An undocumented man becomes the leader of a movement that defends the working conditions of migrants in the United States.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfonso Arau

Papa and the butler try to find an acceptable husband for daddy's spoiled little girl.

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Cast: Yerye Beirute

After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heather Graham

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Russell

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfonso Arau

A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who always gets drunk.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luis Arrieta

Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.

Genre: Action

Cast: Gaspar Henaine

The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Enrique Cuenca

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

Genre: History

Cast: Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gavin

In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter kills her mate.

Genre: Western

Cast: Stuart Whitman

"Mod" culture in Mexico City.

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Cast: Alberto Vázquez

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la...

Genre: Family

Cast: Anthony Gonzalez

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfonso Arau

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ed Harris

Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: David Reynoso

Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. Roxana Chavez is a young girl who's flirting with death, trapped in a dangerous liaison with boss...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Roxana Chávez

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Cast: Jürgen von Manger

Loosely based on the novel "Leakage, iron and fire" by Paco Ignacio Taibo I, "Redondo" is an amazing and brilliant cinematic journey, biting and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfredo Sevilla

An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.

Genre: Music

Cast: Chelo La Rue