Ignacio Retes
Biography: José Ignacio Retes Guevara was a Mexican playwright, film, theater and television actor, director, and writer. Two-time winner of the Ariel Award. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the 30s, where he was able to meet other prominent playwrights and directors of the time such as Rodolfo Usigli, Seki Sano and José Revueltas. He founded the University Theater of San Luis Potosí in 1937 and the theater company Lantern Magic with workers from the Mexican Union of Electricians. With Usigli he founded the company Midnight Theater (in reference to the free time that both had to collaborate in it); with Sano he would work as an assistant. In 1950 he made his directorial debut with "Los cuadrantes de la soledad" by José Revueltas, which reached 100 performances. Said montage also featured scenography designed by Diego Rivera. In 1944 he wrote his first play, "El día de Mañana". As a film actor, he made his debut in the 1950s and was directed by directors such as Jorge Fons, Felipe Cazals, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Sergio Olhovich and Arturo Ripstein. In his role as a screenwriter, he wrote the scripts for films such as Anguish Nights and Journey to Paradise, among others. He was also a public official, as director of the theaters of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), where he promoted the massive construction of public theaters, reaching 38 venues. In the 1960s he collaborated closely with the writer Vicente Leñero, with whom he made various works such as the theatrical version of Los albañiles and Los Niños de Sánchez, among others. The Hidalgo-Ignacio Retes Theater in Mexico City has been named after the actor since 2006 His son, Gabriel Retes, became a prominent actor, director and writer.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 13, 1918
Deathday: April 23, 2004
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Aunt Alejandra
1979-08-09
Aunt Alejandra
Overview: The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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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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Three of Cups
1986-01-04
Three of Cups
Overview: While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-04
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Deceitful Appearances
1983-03-24
Deceitful Appearances
Overview: The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-03-24
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Mariana Mariana
1987-08-05
Mariana Mariana
Overview: The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-08-05
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Los Naúfragos II: Los Piratas
1986-07-31
Los Naúfragos II: Los Piratas
Overview: The Cast Aways saga continues as the shipwrecked islanders discover a cave full of buried treasures, along with the bones of Pirates. They use the cave as a shelter and plan an escape with the loot. Before their plan is complete, a ship arrives with pirates, lead by a young woman, who have come to claim their treasure as their own, and a battle ensues between them and the shipwrecked islanders.The islanders discover by chance that the new arrivals have no claim to the treasure, and their leader a treasure hunting imposter.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-31
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Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
1986-05-15
Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
Overview: Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-15
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Herencia maldita
1987-01-01
Herencia maldita
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Knock Out
1984-11-22
Knock Out
Overview: Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-11-22
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The flying pony
1982-01-01
The flying pony
Overview: Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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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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Chin Chin el teporocho
1976-08-15
Chin Chin el teporocho
Overview: Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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Playa azul
1992-01-01
Playa azul
Overview: A politician accused of fraud seeks refuge in a remote, hotel he owns. Joined by his wife, and children he requests aid from his friends. His friends refuse to help, and eventually his family leave him, leaving him with few options.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Bienvenido-Welcome
1995-08-17
Bienvenido-Welcome
Overview: During a business trip a married man has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message "Welcome to the world of Aids"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-08-17
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Motel
1984-03-29
Motel
Overview: The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-03-29
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El centro del laberinto
1985-01-01
El centro del laberinto
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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If I Never See You Again
1997-11-18
If I Never See You Again
Overview: Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which finally comes true when they are contracted to serve as musical background for strippers of a second class cabaret. In case i never see you again, is a movie about life, death, melancholy and the quest for happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-11-18
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Encuentro Inesperado
1993-04-29
Encuentro Inesperado
Overview: Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The journey has been long and Pilar wants to rest. Dismissed his driver and his butler; will try to sleep until breakfast time. The diva dreams of being killed by one of her admirers, but who appears in her room is the new maid, Estela...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-04-29
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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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The Big Dead Dog
1981-08-20
The Big Dead Dog
Overview: In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins to determine who is responsible for removing it
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-08-20
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El tahúr
1979-11-01
El tahúr
Overview: Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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El rey de la vecindad
1985-12-18
El rey de la vecindad
Overview: Sentimental comedy about ups and downs in a working-class neighborhood.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-12-18
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La casta divina
1977-11-17
La casta divina
Overview: Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-17
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Doña Perfecta
1951-10-10
Doña Perfecta
Overview: Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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The Year of the Plague
1978-02-12
The Year of the Plague
Overview: A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-12
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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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Mundo mágico
1983-12-29
Mundo mágico
Overview: Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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Paper Flowers
1978-02-01
Paper Flowers
Overview: On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Lovers, Partners & Spies
1988-08-17
Lovers, Partners & Spies
Overview: Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-17
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Amor a la medida
1993-11-19
Amor a la medida
Overview: Pop musician lives out a situation in which he throws over a good woman for a bad woman and then discovers the terrible secrets of her checkered past... or does he?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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A Married Woman
1982-01-28
A Married Woman
Overview: Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-28
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New World
1978-08-10
New World
Overview: Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-10
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Los Desalmados
1971-06-17
Los Desalmados
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Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-06-17
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
1997-09-05
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Overview: The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Luna de sangre
1984-02-23
Luna de sangre
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-23
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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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The Realm of Fortune
1986-11-28
The Realm of Fortune
Overview: Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-11-28
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La vida tiene tres días
1955-09-01
La vida tiene tres días
Overview: Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-01
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Cuartelazo
1977-05-04
Cuartelazo
Overview: Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
1981-09-09
Everyone's Hell so Feared
Overview: The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-09
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Melodías de amor
1955-11-16
Melodías de amor
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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Vintage Model
1992-09-04
Vintage Model
Overview: Life unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live. To tie up the loose ends of her life, she hires a chauffeur to drive her around Mexico City and visit her old haunts. But he does far more than that; instead, he gives her life a much-needed spark and shows her the road to happiness. Alonso Echanove and Raul Araiza Jr. co-star.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-09-04
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Oficio de tinieblas
1981-06-04
Oficio de tinieblas
Overview: "Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-04
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The Castaways of Liguria
1985-08-15
The Castaways of Liguria
Overview: A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea. Thompson manages to escape unaware that Albizetti sleeps in the same lifeboat he uses. They manage to arrive at a deserted island, which has also been reached on the opposite shore– by the other survivors of the shipwreck: three children, a woman and three men.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-15
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