Luis Alcoriza

Luis Alcoriza

Country: Mexico

Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Director), 19 (Writer)

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    Los Olvidados
    A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City... (imdb)
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    The Brute
    The Brute is a slaughterhouse worker who more than makes up in muscle what he lacks in brain power.... (imdb)
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    El
    Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him.
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    Death in the Garden
    Chark, an adventurer comes to small village in the near of a gold digger's camp. He is arrested by the local police, who accuse him of having comitted a bank robbery in a neighoured town. The police also confiscate the gold mine for the state, due to this the gold diggers start an revolution, but it is beaten. Chark, Father Lizzardi, Castin and his daugher and Djin, a whore to whom castin is in love are fleeing into the jungle. where they start to fight for their lifes. (imdb)
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    Illusion Travels by Streetcar
    Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar! (imdb)
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    The Great Madcap
    Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930, "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches! (imdb)
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    Daughter of Deceit
    A father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her. He begins looking for her. He finally finds that she has grown up to be happily married and she is pregnant. (ebay)
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    La Fièvre monte à El Pao
    Set on a fictional Latin American island, the action starts when Gov. Vargas (Miguel Angle Ferriz) is assassinated. His executive secretary Ramon Vasquez (Gerard Phillipe who died during production) is then forced to temporarily assume the mantle of power. After the new, brutal, and sadistic governor (Jean Servais) takes over, conditions steadily deteriorate. Meanwhile, the widow of the former governor, Inez Vargas (Maria Felix), and Ramon have fallen in love.
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    The River and Death
    A small town by the shore of a deep, dark river is ruled by death. Its people live by a code of honor that encourages them to take revenge for any form of insult, no matter how insignificant. A seemingly never ending blood feud ravages the town, as the men, one by one, kill each other proudly, embracing their acts of murder with a sense of mission. (imdb)
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    Tiburoneros
    Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works on the coast of Tabasco, Mexico. He works hard and sends money to his wife and children that live in Mexico City. He seems very happy in the coast --he even has a romance with a native girl-- although he misses his family. (imdb)
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    El esqueleto de la señora Morales
    A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage. (imdb)
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    La puerta y la mujer del carnicero
    Two stories that form part of an "anthology of fear" that was never completed. At the door, guests at a party faced with a mysterious door that leads to a corridor in which a naked man walking. The butcher's wife tells the story of a murder perpetrated by the figure of a revolutionary lieutenant. The crime that generated so that the murderer ends up causing hallucinations. (BLOODY DISGUSTING HORROR)
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    Always Further On
    In this film, Raul is a white man who enjoys the simple way of life practiced by the Indians of Mexico. He does his best to try and help the tribe, but he becomes a victim of greedy land grabbers who covet the tribal property. (allmovie.com)
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    Tlayucan
    In order to pay for medicine for his sick son, a father in a poor Mexican village steals a valuable pearl from the local church. (tcm.com)
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    lo que importa es vivir
    A vagabond named Candelario ends up working at don Lázaro's inn, becaming an essential employee. But Candelario starts having an affair with don Lázaro's wife. It is only a matter of time before don Lázaro finds out...
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    Sombra verde
    A research scientist (Ricardo Montalbán) is sent by his pharmaceutical company into the jungles around Veracruz to find a wonder drug but instead comes upon a strange young woman (Ariadne Welter). He falls in love but her father wants him dead. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)
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    Presagio
    When the bottle she uses to help women gave birth to their children breaks, Mama Santos the midwife announces that something terrible is going to happen in a town from the countryside of Mexico, while tension and acts of violence increase. (imdb)
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    El inocente
    After an argument with her boyfriend, Mane drives back to her house, but it breaks down and she must be rescued by a mechanic. Grateful for his kindness, she invites him over for New Year's Eve, where they get drunk and lose consciousness. Mane's parents see them together, think they have had sex and force them to get married.
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    Juego peligroso
    Two stories set in Río de Janeiro: The first (HO) is about a man who picks up a newlywed couple on the highway to Río; their car is wrecked and the man offers to deliver the bride to their honeymoon bungalow. Everything goes wrong when the man's wife catches him with the bride in his car. The second story (Divertimento) is about a woman who wants to kill her lover's wife, not knowing that her lover and his wife plan to stage the crime to blackmail her. (imdb)
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