Acting

Alfonso Arau

Born January 11, 1932 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico (age 94)

Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pi…

Known For

Coco

MovieFamilyAnimation

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone · 1984

Romancing the Stone

MovieRomanceComedy

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

A Walk in the Clouds

A Walk in the Clouds · 1995

A Walk in the Clouds

MovieDramaRomance

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch · 1969

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

¡Three Amigos!

¡Three Amigos! · 1986

¡Three Amigos!

MovieComedyWestern

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

Used Cars

Used Cars · 1980

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

El Topo

El Topo · 1970

MovieAdventureDrama

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Tivoli

MovieComedyDrama

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

Filmography

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Coco

MovieFamilyAnimation

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

Papá Julio (voice)

Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone · 1984

Romancing the Stone

MovieRomanceComedy

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Juan

A Walk in the Clouds

A Walk in the Clouds · 1995

A Walk in the Clouds

MovieDramaRomance

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.

Director

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch · 1969

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Herrera

¡Three Amigos!

¡Three Amigos! · 1986

¡Three Amigos!

MovieComedyWestern

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

El Guapo

Used Cars

Used Cars · 1980

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

Manuel

El Topo

El Topo · 1970

MovieAdventureDrama

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Bandit 1

Tivoli

MovieComedyDrama

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

Writer

Drunk Angry Idiot

Drunk Angry Idiot · 2018

Drunk Angry Idiot

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

Ernesto Pino

Walker

MovieDramaHistory

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Raousset

Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate · 1992

Like Water for Chocolate

MovieDramaRomance

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

Director

Posse

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.

Pepe

Picking Up the Pieces

Picking Up the Pieces · 2000

Picking Up the Pieces

MovieComedyThriller

A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.

Director

Committed

Committed · 2000

MovieComedyDrama

After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is discouraged when she discovers that Carl already has a new girlfriend, the lovely Carmen. Familiarizing herself with Carl's new home and friends, Joline gets company in the form of her brother, Jay. Will Joline win Carl back, or are there other romantic possibilities on her horizon?

Grampy

Paradise

Paradise · 1970

MovieComedyDrama

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

El Perro

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons · 2002

The Magnificent Ambersons

MovieDramaRomance

The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his once great family falls into ruin due to his machinations...

Director

Round

Loosely based on the novel "Leakage, iron and fire" by Paco Ignacio Taibo I, "Redondo" is an amazing and brilliant cinematic journey, biting and irreverently funny, for the fantastic world of a spontaneous novelist who finds himself, putting in crisis some of the institutions and traditional values of his society.

A Painted House

A Painted House · 2003

A Painted House

MovieDramaFamily

A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming season, the boy learns that his challenges guide him in discovering who he really is.

Director

Scandalous John

Scandalous John · 1971

Scandalous John

MovieWesternComedy

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Paco

Música en la noche

Música en la noche · 1958

Música en la noche

MovieMusicComedy

An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.

I Heart Shakey

I Heart Shakey · 2012

MovieFamilyComedy

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 moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to try and get rid of his lovable pooch. Shakey and Chandler won't have it and hatch a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.

Raoul

Run, Cougar, Run

Run, Cougar, Run · 1972

Run, Cougar, Run

MovieWesternFamily

In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter kills her mate.

Etio

L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo

L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo · 2010

L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo

MovieComedyRomance

1905, the cinematograph has reached Southern Italy, and casts fear among the people to whom it seems a devilish trick. They call it "o 'imbroglie din t'o lenzuolo" - "The Trick in the Sheet", as white sheets were used for screening.

Director

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? · 1988

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

MovieWesternTV Movie

A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.

Indio

Miami Vice

Miami Vice · 1984

SeriesCrimeDrama

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

Jorge Cruz

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke · 1955

SeriesWesternAction & Adventure

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

Mando

227

SeriesComedyFamily

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame · 1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

Director