Luis Spota

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Luis Spota

Born July 13, 1925 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Died January 20, 1985 · aged 59

Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (13 July 1925, Mexico City — 20 January 1985) was a Mexican writer, journalist, boxing official and film director. Although he never finished primary school, Spota became a highly successful author and journalist in his lifetime, appearing frequently on TV and radio. He was also a busy screenwriter for the Mexican film industry. He was a close …

Known For

Quite Like ParadiseQuite Like Paradise · 2024
Quite Like Paradise
★ 7.32024
MovieDramaCrime
Ugo Conti, charismatic Italian aristocrat and influencer, arrives in Mexico where he seduces the Mexican high society. When he meets Frida Becker again, the love of his past, he will end up in the center of a struggle for political power.
Life SentenceLife Sentence · 1979
Life Sentence
★ 6.81979
MovieCrimeDrama
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Hipócrita..!Hipócrita..! · 1949
Hipócrita..!
★ 6.11949
MovieCrimeDrama
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
StreetwalkerStreetwalker · 1951
Streetwalker
★ 5.51951
MovieDramaCrime
In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.
La estrella vacíaLa estrella vacía · 1960
La estrella vacía
★ 6.61960
MovieDrama
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Where the Circle EndsWhere the Circle Ends · 1956
Where the Circle Ends
★ 5.41956
MovieThrillerCrime
A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses.
Mi madre es CulpableMi madre es Culpable · 1960
Mi madre es Culpable
★ 6.01960
Movie
"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
Mi desconocida esposaMi desconocida esposa · 1958
Mi desconocida esposa
★ 5.41958
MovieComedyDrama
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.

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VagabundaVagabunda · 1994
Vagabunda
★ 5.41994
MovieCrimeDrama
Vagabunda is the story of young girl (Flor), well aware about her seductive skills, who arrives from an unknown place into a small town in Verazcruz where she is protected by the widowed father of a family who has two sons; one married and the other one lame. After weighting possibilities she ends up dividing the family to get the benefits of the family patrimony causing the married man to killed his pregnant wife, fact that is covered up by his father. At his sister in law's funeral, the head of the family announced his wedding with Flor which takes place before the burial. But since the now widowed son was cheating with Flor, he ends up being killed by his father as he did when killing his pregnant wife, Perla, giving this initial sensual movie a tragic end.

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