Birthday: 1947-03-25
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Biography: José Ignacio Gabriel Jorge Retes Balzaretti (March 25th, 1947 – April 20th, 2020) was a Mexican film director, writer, producer, and actor. His 1977 film Paper Flowers was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1979 film Broken Flag was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1999 film A Sweet Scent of Death was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a...
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While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "someth...
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The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, l...
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The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satiriz...
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It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in ...
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The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters...
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During a business trip, a married man (José) has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message ...
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Marcela, a former film star, seeks tranquility in the suburbs after marrying a wealthy industrialist...
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The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a gro...
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Because of a millionaire fraud, a man is condemned to house arrest, and the only place where he can ...
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A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy....
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As a teenage orphan from Chira Island searches for his godfather on the mainland, his innocent memor...
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Keta is a professional makeup artist with a big butt and large thighs, but she also has big dreams. ...
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A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved...
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Hilarious romantic comedy which main essence is based on the maturation process that young people fa...
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These women think, due to her social position, that they live in a “bubble of soap”. Nevertheless, w...
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After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived ...
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Damian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After Damian accidentally hits a wom...
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After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictators...
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Mariana is the adopted daughter of a businessman. When her father dies she searches for an stolen ca...
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Running from the law, young crooks hole up in a small town... and get hooked into performing in the ...
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A romance between the painters and writers: Dr. Atl and Nahui Olin arises in this era, the 20's, whi...
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Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl fr...
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Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica....
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Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune....
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The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun....
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A gritty tale of survival set against a city ripe with violence and corruption. The Naked City tells...
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Anthology movie -- three anecdotes relating to liberated, post-sixties, sexual behavior. Swinging co...
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Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportun...
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A man who pretends to be a Dutch immigrant, is discovered by the Israelite Secret Service that he is...
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On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of ...
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After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself...
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Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so th...
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After a life full of guilt for having been an executioner, Abel Carbajal receives a visit from Ángel...
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Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in C...
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Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church dur...
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"Luz Externa was one of the most ambitious productions of the Mexican super 8. The script is based o...
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