Juan Ángel Martínez
Birthday: 1939-07-19
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Biography: Born in Mexico City in 1939, died there in 1984. He married journalist Marta de la Lama in 1976. He was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Actor in 1982 (Noche de Carnaval), 1985 (Luna de Sangre)
Movies
El mil usos
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to ...
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first re...
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Nosotros los pelados
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood....
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Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible...
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Viva el chubasco
The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The pri...
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El otro
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intru...
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Motel
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel....
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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the si...
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Juan Armenta, the repatriated
Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy proble...
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Frida Still Life
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her tim...
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Espejismo de la ciudad
Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass....
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The Holy Inquisition
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church ...
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Carnival Night
On Carnival Night, many people come together at a nightclub near the docks. The stories of an aging ...
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The Day Pedro Infante Died
Pablo Rueda, a frustrated writer and artist, wanders through Mexico City in a labyrinth of dreams an...
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is ...
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated....
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Under the Volcano
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken...
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest...
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El Quelite
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales...
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Longitud de Guerra
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants ...
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The Black Widow
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest....
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Los de abajo
In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revol...
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El elegido
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of...
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Anacrusa
The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared...
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El albañil
Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer....
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New World
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious ...
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Contrabando y muerte
A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers...
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Broken Flag
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail ...
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The Coming of the King Olmos
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexi...
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Paper Flowers
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of ...
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