Alfonso Arau Movies

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

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

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...

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

"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.

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

The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with...

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

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

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

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...

Mexican feature film

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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