Directing

Felipe Cazals

Born July 28, 1937 · Mexico City, Mexico

Died October 16, 2021 · aged 84

Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to b…

Known For

Herod's Law

Herod's Law · 1999

MovieComedyCrime

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell · 1965

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell

MovieDocumentary

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Canoa: A Shameful Memory · 1975

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

MovieHistoryCrime

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Familiarities

Familiarities · 1969

MovieRomanceComedy

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

The Year of the Plague

The Year of the Plague · 1978

The Year of the Plague

MovieThrillerScience Fiction

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

Las Poquianchis

Las Poquianchis · 1976

Las Poquianchis

MovieCrimeDrama

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.

Duck Season

Duck Season · 2004

MovieComedyDrama

Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery.

Crónica íntima

Crónica íntima · 1979

Crónica íntima

Mexican feature film

Filmography

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Herod's Law

Herod's Law · 1999

MovieComedyCrime

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

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Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell · 1965

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell

MovieDocumentary

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.

Director

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

Canoa: A Shameful Memory · 1975

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

MovieHistoryCrime

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Director

Familiarities

Familiarities · 1969

MovieRomanceComedy

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Writer

The Year of the Plague

The Year of the Plague · 1978

The Year of the Plague

MovieThrillerScience Fiction

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

Producer

Las Poquianchis

Las Poquianchis · 1976

Las Poquianchis

MovieCrimeDrama

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.

Director

Duck Season

Duck Season · 2004

MovieComedyDrama

Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery.

Consulting Producer

Crónica íntima

Crónica íntima · 1979

Crónica íntima

Mexican feature film

Three of Cups

Three of Cups · 1986

MovieAdventureWestern

While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.

Director

Dulce espiritu

Dulce espiritu · 1987

MovieMysteryTV Movie

Mexican TV film about spiritism. Part of the series "Cuentos de Madrugada".

Director

Under the Shrapnel

Under the Shrapnel · 1983

Under the Shrapnel

MovieThrillerDrama

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.

Director

Aunt Isabel's Garden

Aunt Isabel's Garden · 1972

Aunt Isabel's Garden

MovieHistoryAdventure

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

Director

Those Years

Those Years · 1974

MovieDramaHistory

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Writer

Citizen Buelna

Citizen Buelna · 2013

MovieDramaHistory

Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.

Director

The Great Victory

The Great Victory · 1981

The Great Victory

MovieDramaMusic

The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes

Director

The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour · 1969

The Children's Hour

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to whom he reluctantly tells stories and tries to keep entertained while waiting for his fee to be paid.

Producer

Luz's Motives

Luz's Motives · 1986

MovieDramaHistory

Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.

Director

Chicogrande

Chicogrande · 2010

MovieHistoryDrama

Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.

Director

Rigo is Love

Rigo is Love · 1980

MovieMusicRomance

Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.

Director

The Apple of Discord

The Apple of Discord · 1968

The Apple of Discord

MovieDramaCrime

A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.

Producer

The Citrillo's Turn

The Citrillo's Turn · 2006

The Citrillo's Turn

MovieFantasyDrama

1903, before the Revolution The Citrillos Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions love, betrayal, jealousy, pillage- in an atmosphere of drunkenness and hallucination.

Screenplay

The Wrath of a God

The Wrath of a God · 1988

The Wrath of a God

On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on.

Director

The Heist

The Heist · 1976

MovieCrimeDrama

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.

Director

The Humiliated

The Humiliated · 1986

MovieCrimeDrama

Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.

Director