The best Noé Murayama’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Noé Murayama’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 Noé Murayama.
Nazarin
7.7/10
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.
Blanca Nieves y... sus 7 amantes
5.3/10
An undercover policewoman tracks seven escaped convicts to the deserted island where they've set up a camp.
Shark Hunters
7.4/10
Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works on the coast of Tabasco, Mexico. He works hard and sends money to his wife and children that live in Mexico City. He seems very happy in the coast --he even has a romance with a native girl-- although he misses his family. One day he decides to go back to Mexico City where his brother in law is waiting to invite him into a busines. Aurelio never gets to fit his new life in the city where "even the bed is soft". He decides to turne back where the life he loves is
La pachanga
7.3/10
Party weekend in a working class apartment building; tenants get ready for a quinceanera AND a wake. Big fun!
Juana Gallo
6.9/10
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Los forajidos
5.5/10
Cowboy heroics. With masks on.
La seducción
5.7/10
Asedio criminal
4/10
Containing gore, snuff movies, zombies, the Mafia and the supernatural, this was one of the most notorious "solo para adultos" direct-to-video releases in Mexico during the 90s.
Hot Snake
6.2/10
A psychopath named Jenkins is wanted by the law. There is a $5,000 reward for his capture but Jenkins has the supernatural help of a witch named Ramona, which gives it the power to see the future.
Sonatas
5.7/10
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Wounded Dove
7/10
The story of a native Mexican who wants to kill a man.
The Paper Man
7.9/10
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Tlayucan
7.3/10
A man becomes a thief out of desperation. If his identity becomes known, his neighbours might lynch him. The only friendly face in town is the local priest.
Juan guerrero
Government official in charge of land grants for tenant farmers gets into a ruckus with the feisty daughter of a landower whose estate is up for redistribution.
Operación Jaguar
After their bus breaks down deep in the jungle; a group of weary travelers must walk their way to safety, but a deadly ancient Indian tribe is following them & out to kill them one by one.
Operation 67
6/10
Santo and Jorge Rivero star as spies fighting an international crime syndicate trying to destabilize Mexico's economy.
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 zurdo
5.8/10
Professional gambler is made responsible for the upbringing of an orphan whose father he killed.
La loba
6.2/10
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
Burdel
7.1/10
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
