Alfonso Arau Movies

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband...

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of...

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems...

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974

Mexican feature film

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of the...

Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving...

"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Sim­ple­men­te, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the grea­test com­de­dian-​ac­tors in the his­tory of Me­xi­can Ci­ne­ma. He be­g...

Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra),a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daught...

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger battl...

A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of...

A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.