José Estrada

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José Estrada

Born October 11, 1938 · Mexico City, Mexico

Died September 23, 1986 · aged 47

José Estrada Aguirre (11 October 1938 – 23 August 1986), better known as José Estrada, was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1971 and 1985. His 1985 film Mexican, You Can Do It was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.

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The Prophet MimiThe Prophet Mimi · 1973
The Prophet Mimi
★ 6.81973
MovieDramaThriller
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.
Recodo de purgatorioRecodo de purgatorio · 1975
Recodo de purgatorio
★ 5.71975
MovieDrama
An unnamed man goes to a hotel to commit suicide with pills while listening to songs by Marlene Dietrich. But that act that seems to trigger the mere memory of places and experiences before dying, suddenly merges with other characters and dramatic experiences, which give life to a limit work, of desperate, almost intolerable courage, obstinate in dismantling all institutional discourses of the history of Mexico, without ceasing to use extraordinarily all possible cinematographic resources.
Chabelo Y Pepito Contra Los MonstruosChabelo Y Pepito Contra Los Monstruos · 1973
Chabelo Y Pepito Contra Los Monstruos
★ 7.31973
MovieHorrorComedy
An ordinary day's hike gets rough when two youngsters escape from the main group into the woods and, after finding a grotto, discover that there is more to it than just darkness.
Dark BerryDark Berry · 2025
Dark Berry
★ 10.02025
MovieHorrorComedy
An agoraphobic, germophobic, sex-crazed and suicidal struggling writer discovers that he is the target of a sinister plot.
Uno y medio contra el mundoUno y medio contra el mundo · 1973
Uno y medio contra el mundo
★ 6.91973
MovieRomanceComedy
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
Chabelo y Pepito DetectivesChabelo y Pepito Detectives · 1974
Chabelo y Pepito Detectives
★ 7.81974
MovieAdventureFantasy
A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and they controlled in turn by strangers with long hair and blue eyes.
Maten al LeónMaten al León · 1977
Maten al León
★ 6.61977
MovieDramaAdventure
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
Para servir a ustedPara servir a usted · 1971
Para servir a usted
★ 4.51971
MovieDramaComedy
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.

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Angel del barrioAngel del barrio · 1981
Angel del barrio
★ 6.71981
MovieActionDrama
Patada de Mula, an old retired boxer, lives with the guilt of having killed his opponent in his last fight, but he works as a masseur in a gym, sells balloons on Sundays and with the proceeds supports the widow of the opponent he killed and his son El Kid, an aspiring boxer, without his knowledge. Patada is also in love with his neighbor Marga, a young woman who is pushed into prostitution by the gangster Duque and his own father, but to whom Patada sends letters as an anonymous lover. The Kid is sponsored by Duke and detests Patada for the death of his father, but when he throws him out of the inn that his mother tends she confesses to him what he has done for them and the Kid asks her forgiveness and makes him his second.

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