Movies: Víctor Parra

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

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....

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

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...

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...

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

Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly....

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

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

A Mexican family drama....

1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback....

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

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Classic movie of Mexican cinema....

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 ...

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 ...

Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series....

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....

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