Movies: Víctor Parra

In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue....

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974...

Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even when it causes pain to his devoted aging mother and his beautiful neighbor Lupita, who resists his o...

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve....

Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer....

This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the...

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal....

Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish....

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventu...

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official....

Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a ...

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to ...

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in t...

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo....

After a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase....

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago")....

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago")....

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster....

When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family....

Something's rotten in the state of Puebla....