The best Alfonso Aráu’s movies

Alfonso Aráu

Alfonso Aráu

11/01/1932 (92 años)
Today we present the best Alfonso Aráu’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Alfonso Aráu’s movies.
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Coco

Coco
8.4/10
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
6.9/10
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.

¡Three Amigos!

¡Three Amigos!
6.5/10
Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.

Used Cars

Used Cars
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/07/1980
  • Character: Manuel
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.

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch
7.9/10
Aging outlaw Pike Bishop prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, Dutch Engstrom and brothers Lyle and Tector Gorch, Bishop discovers the heist is a setup orchestrated in part by a former partner, Deke Thornton. As the remaining gang takes refuge in Mexican territory, Thornton trails them—resulting in fierce gunfights with plenty of casualties.

El Topo

El Topo
7.2/10
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.

Posse

Posse
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/06/1975
  • Character: Pepe
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.

Committed

Committed
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/04/2000
  • Character: Grampy
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?

Walker

Walker
6.6/10
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.

Picking Up the Pieces

Picking Up the Pieces
4.7/10
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.

Scandalous John

Scandalous John
5.8/10
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.

The Dead One

The Dead One
3.5/10
Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger battle awaits him when the Aztec god demands the soul of Maria, the girlfriend Diego left behind.

Tivoli

Tivoli
6/10
  • Release: 26/06/1975
  • Character: Tiliches
The movie plot revolves around a burlesque theater called "Tivoli", located in downtown Mexico city. The Tivoli is about to be demolished by the corrupt major of Mexico city, and the artists struggle to try to save their workplace. Throughout the movie we see a strong critique towards the Mexican political system of the time, where corrupt politicians run everything like a fiefdom, and live with double standards. While they publicly criticize the Tivoli as obscene and indecent, many of them are regular customers and they even "hire" the artists to do private functions in their mansions.

Pedro Paramo

Pedro Paramo
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 26/01/1967
  • Character: 'Saltaperico'
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…

Operación carambola

Operación carambola
5.1/10
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.

Drunk Angry Idiot

Drunk Angry Idiot
3.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/09/2018
A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who always gets drunk.

El águila descalza

El águila descalza
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/12/1971
  • Character: Poncho / Jonathan Eaglepass / Mascalzzone
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.

I Heart Shakey

I Heart Shakey
3.6/10
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.

El aviso inoportuno

El aviso inoportuno
7.6/10
  • Release: 17/05/1969
The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .

Tres amigos

Tres amigos
6.8/10
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.

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