Emilio Fernández
Birthday: 1903-03-26
Place of Birth: Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico
Biography: Emilio "El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo, March 26, 1904 – August 6, 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria, which won the Palme d'Or award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions of Mexico and also in Hollywood.
Movies
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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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld...
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Return of the Seven
Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The S...
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The War Wagon
An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stage...
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Flying Down to Rio
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends...
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Treasure of the Amazon
An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle...
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La Bandida
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to impl...
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La Cucaracha
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom figh...
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Wild Flower
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the fo...
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The Reward
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters....
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La recta final
A jockey is pushed by his former trainer, in order to win one last race after his downfall into alco...
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My Son, the Hero
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reyn...
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Janitzio
First all Mexican sound film. Story is based on the ancient customs and legends of the fisherfolk as...
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Observations Under the Volcano
Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano....
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Breakout
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner....
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Red Zone
In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor, a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite wi...
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Con Los Dorados De Villa
Three of Villa's soldiers 'adopt' the orphaned daughter of a friend who was killed in battle....
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El Zorro de Jalisco
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town af...
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El charro Negro
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four....
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The Underdogs
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities com...
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Notes from Under the Volcano
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984)....
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The Sunrise Trail
Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang memb...
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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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The Land of Missing Men
Steve O'Neil robs the stage and kidnaps Nita to keep Lopez from doing the same. Then he and Buckshot...
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La conquista de El Dorado
A new Judge and Sheriff, plus support staff, come to town to clean up El Dorado's lawless ways....
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Little Town
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district....
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Un callejón sin salida
A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve....
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Erótica
Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and de...
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring d...
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Almas rebeldes
Mexican Revolution: a small squadron of insurgents are chosen to trek to US border and pick up an ar...
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Ahora mis pistolas hablan
A man has his tongue cut out by bad guys, later tracks them all down, and kills them one by one....
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A Covenant with Death
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he ...
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Hard Breed to Kill
A band of outlaws appear out of nowhere on a ranchers property and viciously shoot him down. They st...
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The Phantom Gunslinger
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupt...
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The Night of the Iguana
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexic...
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Los hermanos Muerte
Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before disco...
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El caudillo
A new recruit rises through the ranks of Pancho Villa's army as his leadership skills become apparen...
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Yo, el valiente
A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn ...
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Duelo de pistoleros
Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains w...
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Duelo en El Dorado
Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him a...
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Political Asylum
After assassinating a government official, guerrilla takes refuge in a foreign embassy. Tense stando...
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Cruz Diablo
16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his da...
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Lovers of the Lord of the Night
Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United...
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Una gallina muy ponedora
A beautiful woman discovers the rooster fighting world and in the process fall in love with a handso...
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The Western Code
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomi...
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Arriba Michoacán
The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have a...
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Lola the Truck Driver
Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for r...
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Las mujeres mandan
Tired of being mistreated by his wife and children, Isidro (Del Diestro) leaves his family and follo...
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The Enemy Blood
A group of people suffering from mental retardation, blindness and physical malformations work in a ...
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Los malvados
Four amoral drifters team up to retrieve a cache of gold coins from its hiding place....
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Las cabareteras
Power-struggles between gangsters over ownership/control of a strip club....
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Juan sin miedo
Young man goes on the run after being falsely accused of killing his girlfriend's father....
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La chamuscada (Tierra y libertad)
A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and joi...
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Las cuatro milpas
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and ...
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Rancho Alegre
Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college ...
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Un dorado de Pancho Villa
Villa's regiment demobilizes at the end of the Revolution, but the ruling faction in the provisional...
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Passion Island
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called...
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The Smugglers
A woman and her stepdaughter attempt to sneak a few souvenirs past customs and inadvertently become ...
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the...
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