Fernando Balzaretti
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 10, 1946
Deathday: September 05, 1998
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The Hard Years
1973-01-01
The Hard Years
Overview: Three boys, after participating in the events of 1968 in Mexico, find themselves in the need to get away from the social struggle
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Summer of Miss Forbes
1989-03-03
The Summer of Miss Forbes
Overview: Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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El principio
1973-12-03
El principio
Overview: Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-03
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South
1969-03-08
South
Overview: A surreal and horseless approach to classic western tropes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-03-08
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The Useless Force
1972-02-24
The Useless Force
Overview: Rich entomologist René is accepted by a group of young rebels on the condition that they organize parties with his money. One day he proposes a game in which each one must get rid of the most valuable thing they have.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-02-24
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Tempestad
1978-01-01
Tempestad
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Partners and Lovers
1973-01-01
Partners and Lovers
Overview: Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Round
1986-08-16
Round
Overview: Loosely based on the novel "Leakage, iron and fire" by Paco Ignacio Taibo I, "Redondo" is an amazing and brilliant cinematic journey, biting and irreverently funny, for the fantastic world of a spontaneous novelist who finds himself, putting in crisis some of the institutions and traditional values of his society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-16
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Hard Years: The birth of a guerrilla fighter
1989-08-30
Hard Years: The birth of a guerrilla fighter
Overview: The lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60’s. Some years later, the friends meet again. Rolo has turned into a guerrilla fighter, Boby into a businessman and Chino into an embittered and solitary man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-08-30
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Luces de la noche
1998-05-29
Luces de la noche
Overview: On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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Gertrudis Bocanegra
1992-09-24
Gertrudis Bocanegra
Overview: Biopic about a woman who played a courageous role in the resistance against French occupation of Mexico in the early 1800s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-09-24
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It's my Life
1982-05-13
It's my Life
Overview: Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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End of the Party
1972-01-13
End of the Party
Overview: A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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The Wrath of a God
1988-11-10
The Wrath of a God
Overview: On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-11-10
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The Flight of the Stork
1979-09-12
The Flight of the Stork
Overview: An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-09-12
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Goitia: A God for Himself
1989-01-01
Goitia: A God for Himself
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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City of the Blind
1991-10-31
City of the Blind
Overview: Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-10-31
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El reventón
1977-02-03
El reventón
Overview: Wild-partying hippie-artist-dilettantes end up forming a revolutionary terrorist cell. The misfit Gato loses a lot of money in bets and his father throws him out of his house. Ál leaves his girlfriend Laura for his lover, the married Adriana. Out of money Gato and Ál becomes urban guerrilla when they plan to kidnap Gato's rich father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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Barrio de campeones
1981-09-02
Barrio de campeones
Overview: Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant she owns.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-02
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La rebelión de los colgados
1986-11-19
La rebelión de los colgados
Overview: The drama of the Indians of tropical Mexico in the early twentieth century. The Rebellion of the Hanged is the intense story of the rise of the oppressed pawns and their struggle to achieve freedom and independence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-11-19
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The Eve
1982-10-07
The Eve
Overview: Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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El complot mongol
1977-03-28
El complot mongol
Overview: In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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Trail of Death
1981-11-29
Trail of Death
Overview: Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-11-29
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El Noa Noa
1981-02-19
El Noa Noa
Overview: Juan Gabriel became one of the most popular Mexican singer-songwriters, beginning his career in this Ciudad Juárez cabaret. This is his story.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-02-19
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Longitud de Guerra
1976-12-21
Longitud de Guerra
Overview: Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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Balún Canán
1977-05-26
Balún Canán
Overview: Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Difficult Days
1988-07-07
Difficult Days
Overview: Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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In the Storm
1982-04-01
In the Storm
Overview: In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he decided to do it in Mexico with Mexican actors and recreating the Colombian landscapes in that country.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Las reglas del juego
1971-04-22
Las reglas del juego
Overview: A couple is involved in a seduction game to get out of the monotony of their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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El hombre de la mandolina
1985-05-16
El hombre de la mandolina
Overview: Towards the end of the 1950s, a young homosexual faced life, society, a dominant mother, and a conservative home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-05-16
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Crónica de familia
1986-10-07
Crónica de familia
Overview: Esteban and María are a young couple of lovers, both belonging to aristocratic families. When María announces she's moving to London to study, the sullen Esteban decides to follow her, and both opt to steal from their parents to escape and be free, with shocking results.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-07
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Broken Flag
1979-06-21
Broken Flag
Overview: When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-21
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Sucesos distantes
1996-08-09
Sucesos distantes
Overview: One couple (Carlos & Irene) are having troubles, because he suspects that Irene's hiding something about her past in Russia. To make things worst her ex-husband goes to Mexico and tells Carlos that her other ex-husband also is going to claim her as his property.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-09
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The Long Awaited Desperate Love
1976-11-25
The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Overview: A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-25
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Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
1993-05-07
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Overview: Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Mina, viento de libertad
1977-01-01
Mina, viento de libertad
Overview: Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, but for eight months he directed a series of more or less brilliant military actions, in the face of the harassment of the Viceroy , Who finally got him arrested.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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