Alfonso Arau
Birthday: 1932-01-11
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Biography: Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
Movies
...And Your Love Too
On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision th...
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¡Three Amigos!
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in s...
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Picking Up the Pieces
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it ac...
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Romancing the Stone
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. T...
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El Topo
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6...
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Paradise
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on...
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Posse
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber an...
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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him....
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Inspector Calzonzin
A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the c...
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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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Scandalous John
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way ...
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Trip to the Moon
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where conf...
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I Heart Shakey
Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old da...
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Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Simplemente, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the greatest comdedian-act...
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Camino largo a Tijuana
Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict...
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There Are No Thieves in This Village
When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. Th...
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The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea...
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The Dead One
Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil ...
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Stones for Ibarra
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new l...
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Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-T...
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Mojado Power
An undocumented man becomes the leader of a movement that defends the working conditions of migrants...
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Los pistolocos
Papa and the butler try to find an acceptable husband for daddy's spoiled little girl....
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Committed
After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. A...
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Used Cars
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to sav...
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El águila descalza
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something bi...
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Drunk Angry Idiot
A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who alway...
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Operación carambola
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nucl...
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El aviso inoportuno
The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo M...
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Aunt Isabel's Garden
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the...
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Pedro Paramo
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheri...
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Run, Cougar, Run
In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter ki...
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Coco
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplishe...
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Tivoli
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commerci...
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Walker
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to...
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Tres amigos
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identit...
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Polvora En La Piel
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. Roxana Chavez is a young girl who's flirting with death,...
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