
Acting
Alejandro Parodi
Born — Died
1928-07-23 — 2011-08-26
Place of birth
Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
48 titles
Alejandro Parodi Montaño (1928 - 2011) was a Mexican actor. Parodi made professional studies in photography, cinematography and theater. He studied drama with the teacher Seki Sano, in addition to having been a disciple of Alex Phillips. He taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana; with studies in Madrid, Spain. He participated in works of Spanish and German cinema. He alternated with actors such as Geraldine Chaplin, Gian Maria Volonté, Dean Stockwell, Marhe Keller, Kris Kristofferson, among others. He worked with directors such as: Miguel Littín, Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cazals, Alfredo Gurrola and Alejandro Pelayo.
Known for
5.9Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Violent Stories
1985
6.4Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Difficult Days
1988
7.8After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.
De ida y vuelta
2001
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Encuentro con la muerte
1984
5.3Poor 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 depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
The Realm of Fortune
1986
5.3A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
The Year of the Plague
1978
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
7.8After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.
De ida y vuelta
2001
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory
His Most Serene Highness
2000
4.7The strange relation between two brothers.
El misterio del Trinidad
2003
1990s · 5 titles
6.8The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
Dying in the Gulf
1990
5.9The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
Ángel de fuego
1992
5.6Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
1990
7.7The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
The Beginning and the End
1994
6.0Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
Woman of the Port
1996
1980s · 15 titles
5.9Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Violent Stories
1985
6.4Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Difficult Days
1988
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Encuentro con la muerte
1984
5.3Poor 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 depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
The Realm of Fortune
1986
5.3Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
Alsino and the Condor
1982
7.0In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was also a victim of an assassination, had granted a taped interview to her husband. Padre Manuel hands the tape over to her. Esther accompanies the Padre and John, an American reporter, who are trying to find the murderers.
Die Frau des Reporters
1986
5.4A 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 fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Living Is What Matters
1987
5.8After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
Call Me Mike
1981
7.4The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
Romelia's Secret
1988
6.6Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
Zapata en Chinameca
1987
6.5Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.
Death Squad
1985
6.3A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Astucia
1986
6.8Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Knock Out
1984
4.5Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
Viaje al paraíso
1985
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Lamberto Quintero
1987
1970s · 8 titles
5.3A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
The Year of the Plague
1978
7.0Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.
Las Poquianchis
1976
5.6Chronicle 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 essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Letters from Marusia
1975
6.0President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Those Years
1974
5.8Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
The Widow of Montiel
1979
5.5Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
El principio
1973
5.3Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
The Fight with the Panther
1975
6.2Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Cuartelazo
1977
1960s · 9 titles
4.6Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
Santo in the Hotel of Death
1963
Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.
Servicio secreto
1962
5.7The story of the difficult life of itinerant artists in Mexico and their futile dreams of happiness. Marin's father, a traveling artist, dreamed of saving money and sending his daughter to school. But his earnings were too small, barely enough to cover their most basic needs. And Maria continued to perform with her dogs. When Maria and the aerial acrobat Maurimo fell in love and decided to get married to start a new life, their dreams were once again shattered by harsh reality—they worked in different troupes, and Maria could not leave her old, sick father...
Volantín
1963
6.7A group of friends plan to steal a companýs payroll, they succeed, but they have a fatal accident in the getaway car.
Thursday night
1962
5.8Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961
4.3Ambition, social climbing and insincerity shape the emotional climate among a circle of young professionals launching their careers.
Los amigos
1968
NRPart of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.
El fistol del diablo IV
1962
An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
The Infernal Coffin
1962
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Mujeres engañadas
1961
1950s · 7 titles
5.8A poor man sells his watch to buy a lottery ticket, advised by a friend, and wins the jackpot.
El hombre que quiso ser pobre
1956
5.7No synopsis available yet.
El buen ladrón
1957
6.0Pepito's father dies in rollover the Ferrari that is winning a race car, so Pepito is about his grandfather and asks him to equip a car to get him to compete.
Pepito as del volante
1957
5.8Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt.
Venganza en el circo
1954
6.0A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
La mujer X
1955
4.8Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.
Prefiero a tu papá
1952
6.0Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
Good Love
1957

