The best José Baviera’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best José Baviera’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 José Baviera.
Viva Maria!
6.3/10
Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman also named Marie, a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.
The Exterminating Angel
8/10
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
Gran Casino
5.8/10
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
The Barracks
7.1/10
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
Juan Colorado
6.7/10
The Other
7.5/10
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
El Mago
6.9/10
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
El Portero
7.3/10
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
The Martyr of Calvary
6.7/10
The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Corazón salvaje
6.7/10
Nuestras vidas
Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
Deseada
6.9/10
Mother and daughter in love with the same man.
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.
Amok
7/10
A European doctor, in self-imposed exile in some place like Borneo, obsesses crazily over a ruling-class white woman.
La infame
Sad lonely spinster makes friends with a little boy in the park, ends up kidnapping him when she learns about how unloved and neglected he is at home. And then...
Camelia
7.2/10
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
Two Faces Have the Destiny
7/10
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
The Devil Is a Woman
7.2/10
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Padre nuestro
6.4/10
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Lola Casanova
6.7/10
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
