The best Héctor Bonilla’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Héctor Bonilla’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 Héctor Bonilla.
Red Dawn
8/10
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
7:19
5.8/10
At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting for rescue.
El Hotel
3.9/10
A single mother named Maria unespectedly inherits an hotel from her deceased father, where she will find the truth about her past while she tries get the business going.
Tell Me When
5.8/10
After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he falls in love with a female friend who may not feel the same.
The Children of Sanchez
6.1/10
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
Maria of My Hearth
7.7/10
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
El Bulto
7/10
After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs have changed, and Mexicans of the nineties are strangers for a man sleeping since 1971. Lauro will have to deal with the changes brought by the History, and will have to accept that the future is never as we imagined it when we were young.
Matinée
7.1/10
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
Meridiano 100
5.7/10
The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted.
El cambio
6.6/10
In this Mexican drama, two young men leave the city for the simple life in the countryside. Unfortunately, the lake they have chosen to live next to is heavily polluted by a nearby factory. After one of their girlfriends gets sick from the water, they throw lake water into the faces of local officials who have authority over the factory. The officials are not amused, and the two boys are brutally murdered.
El monasterio de los buitres
6.4/10
In an old monastery in Mexico, the faith of all young aspiring priests is tested by the prior using psychoanalysis. During the process, young people manifest indecision, sexual problems (such as incest or homosexuality) and lack of faith.
The Walls Talk
5/10
A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.
Siempre hay una primera vez
6.4/10
El cumpleaños del perro
7.6/10
Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.
Patsy My Love
7.2/10
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
Narda o el verano
6.7/10
Two friends on a summer getaway find and fall for a mysterious woman who will change their lives forever.
Serpientes y escaleras
6.5/10
Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous...
