Alfonso Arau Movies

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband...

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of...

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems...

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of the...

Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving...

Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra),a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daught...

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger battl...

A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981

"Mod" culture in Mexico City.

Papa and the butler try to find an acceptable husband for daddy's spoiled little girl.

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the...

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexic...

A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who always gets drunk.