Alfonso Arau Movies

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...

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

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...

"Mod" culture in Mexico City.

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

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

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...

This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata as an Indigenous Mexican shaman, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican...

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

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

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

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

Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...