The best Víctor Alcocer’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Víctor Alcocer’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 Víctor Alcocer.
El profe
6.8/10
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
Hermelinda Linda
6.4/10
Live action feature based on the Mexican comic about the exploits of a witch living in the outskirts of 'Bondojia', when a ruthless small time politician tries to steal their land in order to build a luxurious condo.
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.
Johnny Chicano
5.8/10
A young peasant falls in love with his American boss, creating nothing but trouble for his Mexican girlfriend and his family.
The River and Death
6.8/10
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Yesenia
6.4/10
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
7/10
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
El ojo de vidrio
6.2/10
El gángster
6.2/10
Aging gangsters want to retire, but going straight poses new problems. Can they adapt?
Cananea
6.8/10
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
In the Palm of Your Hand
7.4/10
A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat? Perhaps the greatest thriller ever made in Mexico, starring Arturo de Córdova and Leticia Palma.
El Proceso de Cristo
6.8/10
The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
María Montecristo
5.4/10
Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.
Crónica roja
6.4/10
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
La Chamuscada
7.8/10
A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.
Retablos de la Guadalupana
From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles.
Orquídeas para mi esposa
7.1/10
El sindicato del crimen
A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".
El cachorro
El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.
La Jorobada
6.7/10
Little girl with very visible spinal injury is given second-class treatment by her able-bodied family. Years pass...
