The best Sonia Infante’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Sonia Infante’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 Sonia Infante.
Macario
8.3/10
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Your Excellency
7.1/10
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Toña machetes
6.6/10
Crisol
6.5/10
Hired killer is contracted to do a hit... against his better judgement.
Operación Tiburón
5.4/10
A popular singer is suspected of being involved with a notorious drug dealer, el Tiburón (the Shark). Meanwhile, a friend of the singer is recruited by Interpol to find the criminal's real identity.
Los jóvenes
6.4/10
Julio Álemán stars in this fast-paced, often violent tragedy based on a true incident involving three young delinquents. The tale is directed byLuis Alcoriza, well known as a screenwriter for Luis Buñuel in films like Los Olvidados. Everything begins when two youths with nothing constructive on their minds decide to form a gang and go about terrorizing young couples. During one such episode, the female victim becomes attracted to the leader of the gang and so an odd, on-the-edge relationship begins. Now the group of three steal a car in Mexico City and take it joy-riding to Guadalajara where a suspicious used car salesman calls the police after they try to sell him the car. Desperate and with nowhere to turn, the trio have every reason to be frightened because the police have orders to shoot them on sight.
Por tu maldito amor
7.1/10
Crosses Over the Wasteland
6.5/10
After a long journey in search of the murderer of his father, a man abuses a beautiful girl next to marry. After consummating his revenge and be rejected by the girl, the man leaves town. She is pregnant and her boyfriend prefers to let his son give antesque. The young man overcomes his macho pride and agrees to marry the helpless mother.
Aquel famoso Remington
5.9/10
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
La soldadera
7.1/10
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
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.
Despedida de soltera
7/10
Five young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.
Pistoleros de la frontera
7/10
"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).
La casa que arde de noche
4.7/10
A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
Jinetes de la llanura
6.2/10
Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera.
Tormenta en el ring
Gangsters and crooked gamblers try to interfere with a wrestling championship.
Death on the Beach
5.5/10
The son of a wealthy businesswoman returns home from boarding school. His mother, always busy with business and with her ambitious lover, realizes that her son suffers for being a homosexual. Having killed a teacher who abused him, the trauma makes him keep killing.
