The best José Elías Moreno’s crime movies
We present our ranking of the best José Elías Moreno’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 José Elías Moreno.
Espaldas mojadas
7.5/10
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.
Midnight
7/10
A 1949 film.
Leader's Shadow
7.8/10
The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows his boss, El Caudillo has chosen another candidate. Several political moves are done between the parties, leading to a thunderous climax.
El sindicato del crimen
A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".
Cuatro contra el mundo
7.3/10
This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster’s moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Víctor Parra.
Pecado
4.8/10
La gota de sangre
7.5/10
Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
Ángeles de arrabal
4.6/10
Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.
The Magnificent Beast
6.1/10
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
