
Directing
Alberto Mariscal
Born 1926-03-10 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Alberto Mariscal (Chicago, March 10, 1926-Los Angeles, April 24, 2010) was an American-born Mexican actor and film director. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of the chili western genre in Mexico.
Acting credits
7.0While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Tivoli
1975
5.7Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West, and the Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the their land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. Led by Horse, they fight to repossess their land.
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
6.5Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Padre nuestro
1953
5.6Mama's four girls are all newlyweds or engaged to be married. Four hubby/fiances plus inlaws = wacky complications.You betcha.
Los problemas de mamá
1970
6.7A bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story.
El sol sale para todos
1950
5.4Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.
Sueños de gloria
1953
6.0El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.
Street Love
1950
8.1The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
The Martyr of Calvary
1952
7.3A lonely man that fights for his people, in a world filled with perversion and limitless cruelty, a brutal past condemns him to vengeance and the love of his life pushes him to violence.
El bronko negro
1998
6.4Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo.
Adventures of Juliancito
1969
5.9An italian woman scapes from de WWII to Mexico where her uncle lives. She gets trapped in a brothel threatened to be involved in a crime that she was innocent. Meanwhile, she finds her true love who ignores where she lived and worked.
Angélica
1952
6.0Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
El Hijo De Gabino Barrera
1965
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Vagabunda
1950
6.0Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
The Revived Monster
1953
6.6Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
Hay lugar para... dos
1949
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
Adventures of the X Sisters
1963
5.7A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.
El rencor de la tierra
1949
5.5Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.
La barranca sangrienta
1962
6.4Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Confidencias de un ruletero
1949
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Pistolas de oro
1959
5.2Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Neutron vs. the Maniac
1965
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Flor de sangre
1951
Western, first of two in series. Sequel: Alias El Alacran.
El muchacho de Durango
1962
6.2Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
Quiero vivir
1953
Behind the camera
6.4A very humble boy longs conditions make their first communion, but circumstances do not allow it until, after a tragic accident, Paco Malgesto and a group of people who help make his dream.
Primera Comunión
1969
6.0A shot-on-video Mexican horror involving a psychotic doctor who murders, dismembers and keeps a severed human head as some kind of trophy.
Killer Mind
1987
6.0A shot-on-video Mexican horror involving a psychotic doctor who murders, dismembers and keeps a severed human head as some kind of trophy.
Killer Mind
1987
5.4A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.
Eye for an Eye
1971
5.4A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.
Eye for an Eye
1971
7.8Mariano Landeros is sworn by his mother to look for the murderer of his father at all costs, the proof would bring that Doroteo Carrillo earring snatched his mother when it happened the asesinato.Mariano part unstoppably to find the murderer finding in the way love, hate and violence.
El Arracadas
1978
5.0A marriage in decline decides to try new things through sex in order to save their relationship.
Matrimonio y Sexo
1970
5.7Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.
El cara parchada
1980
5.7Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.
El cara parchada
1980
5.6A guilt-ridden gunslinger seeks redemption after a tragic accident claims his friend's life. As he finds purpose through love, a vengeful shadow from his past threatens his chance at a new beginning.
El tunco Maclovio
1970
6.5Vice cop infiltrates a jazz club to bust a heroin ring.
Narcotics Division
1963
7.6After etching their love on a stalk, a boy and girl reunite years later, reigniting their romance amidst the Mexican Revolution.
La Ley Del Monte
1976
6.0Team of fake-seance gals open a school to learn witchery, accidentally link up with a young woman with real telepathic abilities. Meanwhile, some mafiosi have kidnapped a bunch of children...
School for Witches
1990
5.8Gunslinger with a mean rep meets a Marshall who appoints him as deputy and helps him turn over a new leaf.
Forajidos en la mira
1985
7.3A lonely man that fights for his people, in a world filled with perversion and limitless cruelty, a brutal past condemns him to vengeance and the love of his life pushes him to violence.
El bronko negro
1998
7.4Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
Todo Por Nada
1969
7.4Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
Todo Por Nada
1969
4.4The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.
They Call Him Marcado
1971
6.3Roving gunslingers team up against a common enemy, but then they turn on each other.
Con la muerte en ancas
1980
6.7Timothy Leach moves in to an abandoned farm house with his wife. On the way a man befriends Timothy with the intention to pass Marlene to him (A golden arm brace that gives who ever wears it dead eye shooting accuracy). A group of bandits notice them and see them as easy prey. they rob them of goods and supplies. on another trip the bandits seeing Mrs. Leach all alone assault her. as she lays on the ground the man who befriended Timothy strangles her. when Timothy arrives he blames the bandits and gives him Marlene and hands him a gun he is reluctant as he has never shot a gun before, but soon discovers it possesses incredible powers which uses nerves impulses to hit the target every time. Timothy is afraid but he also wants to avenge the life of his wife. even if he has to take them all on.
El Brazo de Oro
1979
7.7Kalimán: Women want to be with him, men want to be him! That old adage fits this character. The superhero was huge in Mexico, the subject of comic books and a radio show that was as popular as the Shadow's was in the States. He's a very philosophical, peace loving man who uses his brains and heart as well as brawn in his capers.
Kalimán in the Sinister World of Humanón
1976
5.8A man named Tony is captured riding the horse of Lee Corey, a missing delivery man for a local mining company. Tony claims to have bought the horse from two men, but the sheriff believes he has murdered Corey and stolen the horse. Tony is sent to the gallows, but escapes hanging with the help of Corey's mistress and sets out to find the real killer.
Uno para la horca
1974
6.8A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.
La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad
1969
7.4Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different motivations: from the mere archaeological find to the destruction of humanity.
Kaliman, the Incredible Man
1972