The best Manuel López Ochoa’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Manuel López Ochoa’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 Manuel López Ochoa.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
6.4/10
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
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.
Alma Grande en el desierto
Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation.
Escuela para solteras
7.6/10
All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.
Seguiré tus pasos
7.1/10
José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.
The Bandits
5.6/10
Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.
Padre nuestro que estas en la tierra
Single father with a disability struggles to raise his son.
Nos lleva la tristeza
Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.
Dos tipas de cuidado
4.4/10
Gold-digger conspires with gal-pal to snag herself a rich husband.
Little Black Angels
6.9/10
A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black mother since birth—marries a pop singer. Everybody conspires to protect her from finding out about herself. It's not clear exactly why they do that.
Quinto patio
4.4/10
Ramon is a guy who lives in a neighborhood, in the " fifth courtyard " in urban poverty. Nevertheless, aspires to the love of the daughter of his employer, a woman of another social class.
Me cansé de rogarle
6.3/10
Lucha Vazquez, a beautiful and wealthy young woman seems pursued by bad luck. She has had two boyfriends who died at the announcement of the wedding. Manuel, a young man from the same town is in love with Lucha, but she fears that if he falls in love, he will die too.
La tumba de Matías
Gambler with a heart condition races the clock to get his mausoleum finished. His wife and her lover wait on the sidelines.
El último cartucho
Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.
En la vieja California
Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved.
El medio pelo
7.1/10
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
Alma grande
Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series.
Un Latin lover en Acapulco
Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
Esclava del deseo
5.8/10
Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger.
Two Cheerful Hawks
8.2/10
Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls.
