The best Héctor Ortega’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Héctor Ortega’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Héctor Ortega.
Santa Sangre
7.5/10
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
The Holy Mountain
7.8/10
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Curse of the Mayans
3.3/10
Danielle Noble (played by Carla Ortiz) and her team of expert cave divers led by an ambitious american archaeologist (Steve Wilcox), undertake an expedition in search of the lost Mayan Library, without imagining they will instead find the hidden gates of hell known as Xib'alb'a.
Inspector Calzonzin
7.2/10
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
Pubertinaje
7.4/10
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Duro pero seguro
7.2/10
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Cuartelazo
5.4/10
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
El vals sin fin
7.5/10
Aquellos años
6.4/10
Historical drama: Benito Juarez and the years of he Franco-Mexican war, 1850s-1860s.
Adriana del Rio, actriz
5.8/10
The Prophet Mimi
7.5/10
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder prostitutes.
El rincón de las vírgenes
7.2/10
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
The Legend of a Mask
6/10
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
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.
La paloma de Marsella
6.4/10
Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.
¿De qué lado estás?
5.8/10
An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
Motel of Death
Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.
