Ernesto Gómez Cruz

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Living Is What Matters
7.3

Living Is What Matters

Oct. 21, 1987

Living Is What Matters

Candelario is a wanderer who arrives to Don Lázaro’s hacienda. He soon proves to be a good worker full of ideas and gives new life to the ...
A Wonderful World
6.9

A Wonderful World

Mar. 17, 2006

A Wonderful World

Once upon a time, Juan Pérez, the poorest of the poor, reaches fame in a fluke accident in what seemed to be an attempt of suicide, to protest ...
Figuras de la Pasión
6.8

Figuras de la Pasión

Jan. 01, 1984

Figuras de la Pasión

The first tape to film picture ever made tells the tale of the forgotten, the dead and the ones who had been banned in every aspect of the ...
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
7.9

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Mar. 04, 1976

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

A group of students take a bus to go to a small town, in order to finish a professional practice. All of them are friends, and they decide to ...
Life Sentence
7.3

Life Sentence

Aug. 09, 1979

Life Sentence

“El Tarzan” Lira is an ex-convict who decides to give up his criminal past and reform his life. However, a corrupt policeman ...
Highway Patrolman
7.1

Highway Patrolman

Dec. 28, 1991

Highway Patrolman

A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol has to adapt to survive as he contends with dangerous drug-runners and widespread corruption. ...
El Norte
7.7

El Norte

Oct. 11, 1983

El Norte

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the ...
El Infierno
7.8

El Infierno

Sep. 03, 2010

El Infierno

Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in ...
Siempre hay una primera vez
0

Siempre hay una primera vez

Three stories about women from different social classes, in which they face their first sexual experience in two stories that, by addressing the ...
The Realm of Fortune
7.2

The Realm of Fortune

Nov. 28, 1986

The Realm of Fortune

A very poor and handicapped man lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. He works announcing things along the town (“The priest ...
Tivoli
6.1

Tivoli

Jun. 26, 1975

Tivoli

“Tivoli” (1975) certainly had a promising idea back of it (the closing by mercenary developers and corrupt civic officials of a ...
Sandino
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Sandino

Jan. 01, 1990

Sandino

The US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance. Release: Sandino 1990 ...
La viuda de Montiel
6.1

La viuda de Montiel

Nov. 30, 1979

La viuda de Montiel

While a train takes a woman to her destination, accompanied by her only daughter, she remembers the events that marked the life of her dead son ...
La venida del rey Olmos
5.9

La venida del rey Olmos

Sep. 11, 1975

La venida del rey Olmos

After being initiated with the Amish in northern Mexico, a religious fanatic poses as a holy man in a small town, making dubious miracles and ...
The Recourse to the Method
6.2

The Recourse to the Method

It tells the story of a dictatorship. Its protagonist is the sum and essence of several of the rulers who have exercised absolute power in Latin ...
The One Who Came from Heaven
6.7

The One Who Came from Heaven

I went to see this garbage at its premiere in my home town as it was filmed in the area. The theatre was packed as several local ladies were ...
The Crime of Padre Amaro
6.7

The Crime of Padre Amaro

Oct. 01, 2002

The Crime of Padre Amaro

The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he ...
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
6.7

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

Jan. 05, 1973

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

A dramatization of John Reed’s newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on ...
Midaq Alley
7.4

Midaq Alley

May. 05, 1995

Midaq Alley

Based on the Nobel Prize Winner’s novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City’s downtown, ...
Herod’s Law
8.0

Herod’s Law

Nov. 09, 1999

Herod’s Law

Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted ...