The best Ernesto Gómez Cruz’s comedy movies
Ernesto Gómez Cruz (born 7 November 1933) is a prolific Mexican actor with more than 154 films.
He has been nominated several times for the Ariel Award. These include his acting in El Infierno (2010), El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002), El imperio de la fortuna by Arturo Ripstein (1987), La Víspera by Alejandro Pelayo (1983), Cadena perpetua by Ripstein (1979), La venida del Rey Olmos by Julián Pastor (1975) and Rosa by José Estrada (1969).
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El Infierno
7.6/10
Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.
The Mexican
6.1/10
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
Bandidas
5.7/10
Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
Herod's Law
7.8/10
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
Cómo Filmar Una XXX
4.9/10
Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportunity offered to him to direct a film, without knowing that it is foing to be a porn movie. Gudelio Medina, photographer and Ulysses's old mate, convinces him to do it. All participants in the film, start, unaware of the main porn star gender, making room for hilarious entanglements, but once committed to the project they must discover how to shoot a porn movie and in the process, just maybe, discover love.
Los Caifanes
7.8/10
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
Sweet Release
5.1/10
The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.
A Wonderful World
6.8/10
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Santos Peregrinos
4.5/10
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building discover that three religious figurines passed down through the decades from Emiliano Zapata are full of solid gold. Tempers fly, libidos flare and no one emerges unscathed, including viewers overcome by a heavenly dose of hilarity in Santos Peregrinos.
Maten al León
7.2/10
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
Uno y medio contra el mundo
6.5/10
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
6.8/10
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
El águila descalza
6.8/10
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.
Nosotros los pelados
5.7/10
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
El Quelite
7.9/10
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds. He gets cleaned up, she falls for him, they get married, and guess what? He can't consummate the marriage. Why? Because the song "El Quelite" is playing in the background. His mother would sing that to him when giving him a bath. So now, he can't ge it up every time he hears it.
Las caguamas ninja
3.6/10
A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together.
Los cacos
5.2/10
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
Así es la Suerte
6.3/10
Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Despite Ramiro´s efforts, the young man dies before his eyes, which leads him to believe that he has caught his bad luck. From then on, his life turns upside down, at the same time as he gets together with his family to fulfill his father´s last wish: to find the love of his life and say goodbye to her.
El primer paso... de la mujer
5.3/10
Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
Las delicias del poder
6.7/10
A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out if the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
