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Manuel Barbachano Ponce
Born April 4, 1925 · Mérida - Yucatán - Mexico
Died October 29, 1994 · aged 69
Manuel Barbachano Ponce (4 April 1925 – 29 October 1994) was a Mexican film producer, director, and screenwriter associated with the development of independent and culturally oriented production in Mexico. He produced key mid-century titles including Raíces—entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival—and the documentary Torero!, which received a special citation at the Venice Film Festival. He al…
Known For
Nazarín · 1959Nazarín
★ 7.61959
MovieDrama
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Frida Still Life · 1986Frida Still Life
★ 5.51986
MovieDramaHistory
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Pedro Paramo · 1967Pedro Paramo
★ 7.21967
MovieDramaFantasy
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
The Shunammite · 1965The Shunammite
★ 6.31965
MovieDrama
Luisa returns to her village, where she cares for her uncle on his deathbed, who tells her the story of his life with a hidden purpose.
Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra · 1981Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra
★ 5.71981
MovieDramaCrime
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.
Doña Herlinda and Her Son · 1985Doña Herlinda and Her Son
★ 5.31985
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.
The Golden Cockerel · 1964The Golden Cockerel
★ 7.11964
MovieDrama
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.
Tequila · 1992Tequila
★ 5.21992
MovieDrama
Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a cinematic extension of Mexico’s muralist tradition, a contemporary equivalent of Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros with vignettes, quick ideas, visual puns, cartoons, and political statements.
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