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Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Born January 22, 1942 · Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico

Died January 13, 2020 · aged 77

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo (January 22, 1942 - January 13, 2020) was a Mexican film director, often compared to Spain's Pedro Almodóvar. Born in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, in central Mexico, Hermosillo's films often explore the hypocrisy of middle-class Mexican values. He worked with Gabriel García Márquez on "Mary My Dearest" in 1979 and "The Summer of Miss Forbes" in 1988. His 1991 film "H…

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Forbidden Homework

Forbidden Homework · 1992

Forbidden Homework

A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival.

Magdalena’s True Vocation

Magdalena’s True Vocation · 1972

Magdalena’s True Vocation

Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado · 2010

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado

Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering his artistic vocation, stuff like that.

The Summer of Miss Forbes

The Summer of Miss Forbes · 1989

The Summer of Miss Forbes

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.

Free Love

Free Love · 1978

MovieComedyRomance

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae · 1974

The Master of Ballantrae

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.

The Heart of the Night

The Heart of the Night · 1984

The Heart of the Night

MovieThrillerMystery

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.

Rencor

A beautiful, wealthy socialite is implicated in a violent murder by her aimless younger lover, and her life is forever changed as she tries to protect herself and him from the impending investigation.

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Forbidden Homework

Forbidden Homework · 1992

Forbidden Homework

A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival.

Director

Magdalena’s True Vocation

Magdalena’s True Vocation · 1972

Magdalena’s True Vocation

Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education

Director

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado · 2010

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado

Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering his artistic vocation, stuff like that.

Director

The Summer of Miss Forbes

The Summer of Miss Forbes · 1989

The Summer of Miss Forbes

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.

Director

Free Love

Free Love · 1978

MovieComedyRomance

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

Director

The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae · 1974

The Master of Ballantrae

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.

Director

The Heart of the Night

The Heart of the Night · 1984

The Heart of the Night

MovieThrillerMystery

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.

Screenplay

Rencor

A beautiful, wealthy socialite is implicated in a violent murder by her aimless younger lover, and her life is forever changed as she tries to protect herself and him from the impending investigation.

Writer

Bathroom Intimacy

Bathroom Intimacy · 1989

Bathroom Intimacy

A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.

Director

Homework

Homework · 1991

MovieComedyDrama

Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.

Director

eXXXorcisms

eXXXorcisms · 2002

MovieThrillerMystery

A sexy, deviant supernatural thriller from the usually interesting Hermosillo. Set in a shopping mall populated by gay spirits and an apprehensive young security guard, this is a sexually graphic, psychologically scary plunge into modern pathology and the dark side of midnight.

Director

Esmeralda Comes by Night

Esmeralda Comes by Night · 1997

Esmeralda Comes by Night

The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.

Writer

Naufragio

Naufragio · 1978

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.

Director

Maria of My Heart

Maria of My Heart · 1979

Maria of My Heart

MovieDramaThriller

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.

Writer

El edén

El edén · 2004

A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to achieving what she sets out to do, will use all her weapons to recover what is her own.

Director

Matinée

Matinée · 1977

MovieDramaCrime

Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.

Director

Dos auroras

Dos auroras · 2005

When her son Mauricio suffers a severe crisis, Aurora, a wealthy woman from Guadalajara, returns from Greece to try to help him with the possible disclosure of the identity of his father.

Screenplay

Doña Herlinda and Her Son

Doña Herlinda and Her Son · 1985

Doña Herlinda and Her Son

MovieComedyRomance

A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman.

Writer

The Passion of Berenice

The Passion of Berenice · 1976

The Passion of Berenice

MovieDramaThriller

When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.

Screenplay

Deceitful Appearances

Deceitful Appearances · 1983

Deceitful Appearances

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.

Director

Homesick

Homesick · 1965

Young man from "the provinces" adrift in Mexico City.

Director

The Birthday of the Dog

The Birthday of the Dog · 1975

The Birthday of the Dog

MovieCrimeDrama

Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best friend to a young man, in a friendship that becomes so very close that the younger man murders his wife. He is helped by the other man. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police. So he also kills his wife.

Director

Robachicos

Robachicos · 1986

MovieCrimeThriller

One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.

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Danish Girls Show Everything

Danish Girls Show Everything · 1996

Danish Girls Show Everything

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).

Director

Bride's Avenue

Bride's Avenue · 2000

La calle de las novias is a Mexican telenovela produced by TV Azteca and Zuba Producciones. Directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, it stars Silvia Navarro and Juan Manuel Bernal as protagonists.

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