Alfonso Arau Movies

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la...

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

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...

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she...

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.

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...

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...

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

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself...

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.

After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is...

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

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...

Loosely based on the novel "Leakage, iron and fire" by Paco Ignacio Taibo I, "Redondo" is an amazing and brilliant cinematic journey, biting and...

An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

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...