The best Augusto Benedico’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Augusto Benedico’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Augusto Benedico.
The Exterminating Angel
8/10
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
Pedro Paramo
7.1/10
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…
Fever Mounts at El Pao
6.8/10
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
3.9/10
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
The Big Cube
4.3/10
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
The New Invisible Man
5.6/10
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
Doña Perfecta
7.3/10
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Los cachorros
6.4/10
A man who has been mutilated in boyhood encounters numerous difficulties because of it. Jose Alonso plays a man whose lower limbs, including his sexual organs, were savaged by a Great Dane in boyhood. Unfortunately for him, his sex drive developed unabated and his frustration at being unable to culminate his relationships with women eventually drives him to drastic action because he has no alternative or compensating interests.
Cascabelito
7/10
Esposas Infieles
3.9/10
Controversial Mexican film about infidelity.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
6.5/10
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Sin salida
6.2/10
Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."
Prisionera del recuerdo
Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer.
Ama a tu prójimo
6.2/10
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Amor y sexo (Safo 1963)
6.7/10
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Feast of the Wolf
8.5/10
A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.
La venenosa
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
Cuatro hombres marcados
Cowboy detective investigates two murders.
Yesenia
6.4/10
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
El jardín de la tía Isabel
6.7/10
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
