The best Manuel Ojeda’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Manuel Ojeda’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 Manuel Ojeda.
Herod's Law
7.8/10
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
The Heist
7.7/10
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
7.8/10
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on true facts occurred in the town of Canoa in 1968.
Las Poquianchis
7.2/10
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. the suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis" The sisters were very religious but were the owners of brothels and recruited poor girls with the false promises of jobs, instead they were forced to prostitution, and some were killed.
The 4th Company
6.2/10
Zambrano is a young criminal with the only hope of joining the legendary prison American football team known as The Dogs of Santa Martha. His hopes end up involving him with organized crime since The Dogs, who are also known as The 4th Company, a squadron of inmates at the service of the administration that controls the jail, its vice and its privileges. Corruption and crime have no limits; they ravage the city with car thefts, bank robberies and other crimes under the auspices of the authorities, the story takes place during the López Portillo presidency and his men.
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.
El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
5.8/10
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
Luna caliente
4/10
Returning to Argentina, an engineer trained in Europe visiting a friend of his father and meets the teenage daughter, who begins a relationship of love and passion.
The Heart of the Night
7/10
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
In The MIddle of Nowhere
6.3/10
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.
La Rubia y La Morena 2
Salvame! Una Luz En La Oscuridad
Ricardo has lived life on the edge after the untimely death of his grandfather. Alcohol & drugs consume him and hopes to avenge his grandfather's death someday. Ricardo longs to be saved from his darkened days and is also pursuing a career in singing.
The Man in White
4.8/10
After accidentally witnessing a serial killer's brutal murder of a policeman, Erika must race to get herself and her daughter out of the killer's path before his blood-soaked rampage includes them as well.
