Películas de Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an...

Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a...

Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted...

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the...

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which...

Víctor, a psychopath, loves carving crosses onto women post-mortem, blames paedophile priest and mother-in-denial for his behaviour, falls in...

During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in...

A married, middle-aged well-known biochemist and university teacher Augusto, leaves his wife, his job and the comfort of his life to go after...

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the...

A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity...

Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no...

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a...

Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered...

A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make...

After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to...

It tells the story of Niebla, who died in a shootout with the police and whose ghost comes back to help change Francisco´s fate, a 10 years old...

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American...

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the...

When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment...

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various...

Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their...

In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is...

A group of archeologists excavating Aztec ruins in Mexico City uncover a bizarre statue, which unleashes satanic powers and possesses the chief...

A private detective starts a game of cat and mouse with a psychopath who strangles women who leaves messages on the bodies of his victims.

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters'...

This is a story of revenge, as detective Shayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him blind in one eye. The cases then become personal...

A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money.

Separated from his father after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, young Teo and his new friend, Chuy, set off on a dangerous quest across...

A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living...

A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out if the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the...

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

General Pershing invades Mexican territory in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus.

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

Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of...

Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the...

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest...

Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.

Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey...

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator...

Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring...

Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers of both of them turn up in town. Adaptation of A...

Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.

Comatose little village gets rich overnight selling minerals to arms manufacturers.

Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.

Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.

Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the...

A satanic preacher comes to a small town where he unleashed the terror of the inhabitants.

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.

Drama - Hailed as the first film to portray the Chicano experience -- and the first Chicano film to be financed by the Mexican government --...

After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.

The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police...

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in...

Unattractive man receives a large inheritance on condition that he use the money to get plastic surgery and create a better life for himself.

A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together.

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his...

Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen....

People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes...

Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't...

Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life.

Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet....

Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportunity offered to him to direct a film, without...

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

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before...

A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners...

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge.

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother...

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take...

Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique...

Two young emigres return home from USA to their family farm to visit for a week.

Two little boys grow up and go after the two blackhats that killed their parents.

Four stories that tell the tales of lottery winner. Each story features a different cast of street vendors.

This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a...

Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also...

Esteban and María are a young couple of lovers, both belonging to aristocratic families. When María announces she's moving to London to...

Virginia and Nacho, is a poor marriage, living precariously on their meager salaries, insufficient to support his child nine years of age. Until...

1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.

Female-lead action film.

The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most...

It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise...

Short film. Unknown plot.

A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and...

Mexican feature film

Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the...

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.

The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this...

Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse...

A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of...

A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the Madera military barracks; most of them lose...

Three stories, each one with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country's educational system. The...

Mexican feature film

Vagabunda is the story of young girl (Flor), well aware about her seductive skills, who arrives from an unknown place into a small town in Verazcruz...

Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican...

A battle between Jalisco mobsters & federal agents.

Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."

A gang of cross-dressers terrorize a city and a vengeful cop is after them.

Mexican feature film

Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.

Mexican feature film

Tragedy strikes a group of immigrants crossing the border between Arizona and Mexico.

Mexican feature film

Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a...

The Mexican Revolution in the state of Sonora.

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her...

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Directed by Federico Weingartshofer

Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City.

Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.

In "Tespis Teporocho", a boy who interacts with vagabonds thirsty for knowledge, finally absorb them from an unexpected teacher.

Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in...

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a...