
Directing
José Buil
Born
1953-03-19 (73)
Place of birth
Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
21 titles
Director, screenwriter and editor. He left the career of Surgeon to enter the career Journalism and Collective Communication at UNAM. Founder of TAPOSIN and "Tintero" and "Sitios" magazines, he practiced cultural journalism and film criticism in "El Nacional", "La Revista de la Universidad" and "Su otro yo". In 1977 he entered the CCC (Cinematographic Training Center) where he made, in that same year, the documentary "My unemployed friends" and the fiction films "Notes for other things" (1978) and "Endre in the city" (1979), all short films made as exercises. In 1981 he filmed his thesis film, the medium-length film "Goodbye, goodbye my idol", which served as rehearsal for "The Legend of a M…
Known for
7.9Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
2001
7.8Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she rejects him for the last time causing Gabino to plan a revenge against Maty.
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
2007
7.2Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.
Dreaming About You
1992
5.9After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
El Cometa
1999
5.1A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
The Legend of a Mask
1991
5.3Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo also has some contained violence about to explode on the brink of World War II.
Crimes of the North Sea
2017
Behind the camera
7.9Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
2001
7.8Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she rejects him for the last time causing Gabino to plan a revenge against Maty.
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
2007
7.2Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.
Dreaming About You
1992
5.9After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
El Cometa
1999
5.9After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
El Cometa
1999
5.1A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
The Legend of a Mask
1991
5.1A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
The Legend of a Mask
1991
5.3Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo also has some contained violence about to explode on the brink of World War II.
Crimes of the North Sea
2017
5.3Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo also has some contained violence about to explode on the brink of World War II.
Crimes of the North Sea
2017
5.8It was the year of 1962 when I turned 12 and my breasts began to grow. Cecilia, my sister, went to study in Paris, I was left alone with my parents and their problems. I discovered that the breasts made men and women crazy, while mine began to draw the attention of my friends without adults realizing that I needed a bra.
El brassier de Emma
2007
7.5Two students at a Mexico City university are desperate to attend an Acapulco rave — so desperate that they’ll kidnap a girl to raise the funds to get there.
Nadie te habla: Manos libres
2005
7.5Two students at a Mexico City university are desperate to attend an Acapulco rave — so desperate that they’ll kidnap a girl to raise the funds to get there.
Nadie te habla: Manos libres
2005
5.7Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doctor Moebius, who also wants to regain his youth. Martin goes to visit old Funes, but instead finds twelve year old Pablo, whom he shelters in his house without telling his parents what is going on. Pablo turns the biology teacher into a baby girl with a pacifier, and a group of the elderly into children. Martin dreams of a world of only children, but Doctor Moebius steals the formula, not knowing that its effects are unpredictable.
Doctor Funes Formula
2013
5.7Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doctor Moebius, who also wants to regain his youth. Martin goes to visit old Funes, but instead finds twelve year old Pablo, whom he shelters in his house without telling his parents what is going on. Pablo turns the biology teacher into a baby girl with a pacifier, and a group of the elderly into children. Martin dreams of a world of only children, but Doctor Moebius steals the formula, not knowing that its effects are unpredictable.
Doctor Funes Formula
2013
5.0A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life
Los pasos de Ana
1993
7.4Family movies, shot with a 9.5 mm Pathé Baby camera, let us know traditions, customs, joys and sorrows of a Mexican family from the 1920s to the 1950s.
La línea paterna
1995
7.4Family movies, shot with a 9.5 mm Pathé Baby camera, let us know traditions, customs, joys and sorrows of a Mexican family from the 1920s to the 1950s.
La línea paterna
1995
6.0A strange fantasy about the decadence of the Mexican wrestler "El Santo, The Man in the Silver Mask".
Adiós, adiós ídolo mío
1985
6.0A strange fantasy about the decadence of the Mexican wrestler "El Santo, The Man in the Silver Mask".
Adiós, adiós ídolo mío
1985
5.0Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner strength by practicing pole dance she meets Jaime, who gets obsessed with her, unleashing a story of abuse and gender violence.
Pole Dance
2023
5.0Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner strength by practicing pole dance she meets Jaime, who gets obsessed with her, unleashing a story of abuse and gender violence.
Pole Dance
2023
