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Alfonso Arau

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Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.

11-01-1932

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

40

Total Films

Alfonso Aráu

Also known as (male)

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

40 Works

producer

4 Works

director

22 Works

writer

7 Works

other

0 Works

Drunk Angry Idiot

Drunk Angry Idiot

A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who always gets drunk.
5.4

Year:

2018

Coco

Coco

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
8.2

Year:

2017

I Heart Shakey

I Heart Shakey

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 moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to try and get rid of his lovable pooch. Shakey and Chandler won't have it and hatch a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
3.4

Year:

2012

The Dead One

The Dead One

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 battle awaits him when the Aztec god demands the soul of Maria, the girlfriend Diego left behind.
5.0

Year:

2007

Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan

Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan

"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Sim­ple­men­te, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the grea­test com­de­dian-​ac­tors in the his­tory of Me­xi­can Ci­ne­ma. He be­gan his film ca­reer du­ring the early years of what be­ca­me the Gol­den Age of Me­xi­can Ci­ne­ma. Th­roughout the ma­jo­rity of his mo­vies he plays the cha­rac­ter of a pa­chu­co; the Chi­cano/Me­xi­cano in zoot suit, th­ro­wing out the ti­ri­li ph­ra­ses and words, and jam­min the jitty-​bug. With the sty­le and the slang down to a tee, he was pi­cked up in Cd. Jua­rez Chihuahua by an ac­ting trou­pe. Tou­ring ex­ten­si­vely th­rough-​out Me­xi­co with the trou­pe lan­ded him in Me­xi­co City with film con­tracts. It was in tho­se films that Tin Tan ex­po­sed the ima­ge of the pa­chu­co, which Me­xi­can Youth adop­ted. From the de­sert bor­der-​towns of Jua­rez y El Pa­so the sty­le took off in va­rious parts of the coun­try, most no­ta­bly in Me­xi­co City
7.6

Year:

2005

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
7.3

Year:

2004

Picking Up the Pieces

Picking Up the Pieces

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 husband in search of it.
4.3

Year:

2000

Committed

Committed

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 discouraged when she discovers that Carl already has a new girlfriend, the lovely Carmen. Familiarizing herself with Carl's new home and friends, Joline gets company in the form of her brother, Jay. Will Joline win Carl back, or are there other romantic possibilities on her horizon?
4.8

Year:

2000

Polvora En La Piel

Polvora En La Piel

Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. Roxana Chavez is a young girl who's flirting with death, trapped in a dangerous liaison with boss Fernando Balzaretti. She has the power to seduce him but her life will shortly turn into a nightmare when she discovers a stranger waiting in her apartment. What does he have to do with her lover, and how can she escape this assassin's trap?
5.0

Year:

1992

Camino largo a Tijuana

Camino largo a Tijuana

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 daughter. Lila is kidnapped by drug dealers and Juan feels responsible for her. He takes the long way to Tijuana to rescue Lila. (Written by Maximiliano Maza [email protected])
5.0

Year:

1991

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
3.0

Year:

1988

Stones for Ibarra

Stones for Ibarra

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 of them find peace they were missing.
0.0

Year:

1988

Walker

Walker

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.
6.3

Year:

1987

¡Three Amigos!

¡Three Amigos!

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.
6.3

Year:

1986

Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

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 of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
6.8

Year:

1984

El día que murió Pedro Infante

El día que murió Pedro Infante

Mexican feature film
4.2

Year:

1982

Mojado Power

Mojado Power

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
4.0

Year:

1981

Used Cars

Used Cars

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 owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
6.4

Year:

1980

Tivoli

Tivoli

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
7.0

Year:

1975

Posse

Posse

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
5.9

Year:

1975

Inspector Calzonzin

Inspector Calzonzin

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
7.5

Year:

1974

El rincón de las vírgenes

El rincón de las vírgenes

"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
5.4

Year:

1972

Run, Cougar, Run

Run, Cougar, Run

In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter kills her mate.
5.9

Year:

1972

Aunt Isabel's Garden

Aunt Isabel's Garden

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
5.6

Year:

1972

El águila descalza

El águila descalza

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.
5.5

Year:

1971

Scandalous John

Scandalous John

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.
6.3

Year:

1971

El Topo

El Topo

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 to become a man.
7.1

Year:

1970

Paradise

Paradise

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
5.7

Year:

1970

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
5.6

Year:

1970

Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa

Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa

"Mod" culture in Mexico City.
5.0

Year:

1970

Tres amigos

Tres amigos

Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
5.5

Year:

1970

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
7.6

Year:

1969

El aviso inoportuno

El aviso inoportuno

The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .
7.9

Year:

1969

Operación carambola

Operación carambola

Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
6.5

Year:

1968

Pedro Paramo

Pedro Paramo

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 abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
7.0

Year:

1967

There Are No Thieves in This Village

There Are No Thieves in This Village

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 out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
5.3

Year:

1965

...And Your Love Too

...And Your Love Too

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.
5.2

Year:

1962

Los pistolocos

Los pistolocos

Papa and the butler try to find an acceptable husband for daddy's spoiled little girl.
5.0

Year:

1960

Trip to the Moon

Trip to the Moon

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 them falls in love and that complicates things.
5.8

Year:

1958

New faces

New faces

Mexican feature film
5.0

Year:

1956