Alberto Mariscal

Directing

Alberto Mariscal

Born — Died

1926-03-10 — 2010-04-24

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

70 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 8 titles

1950s · 13 titles

Street Love poster
6.0

El 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

El sol sale para todos poster
6.7

A 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

Padre nuestro poster
6.5

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Padre nuestro

1953

The Martyr of Calvary poster
8.1

The 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

El amor no es ciego poster
4.6

A boxer wins a championship but he is injured and forced to retire. After that he falls in love with a blind girl.

El amor no es ciego

1950

The Revived Monster poster
6.0

Set 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

Sueños de gloria poster
5.4

Auto 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

Flor de sangre poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Flor de sangre

1951

Angélica poster
5.9

An 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

Misericordia poster
6.3

Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends.

Misericordia

1953

Quiero vivir poster
6.2

Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.

Quiero vivir

1953

Vagabunda poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vagabunda

1950

Pistolas de oro poster
6.3

Felipe owns two golden pistols and makes a sacred promise never to use them. However, circumstances will test his word and his will.

Pistolas de oro

1959

Behind the camera

La Ley Del Monte poster
7.6

After 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

Forajidos en la mira poster
5.8

Gunslinger 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

Killer Mind poster
6.0

A 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

Killer Mind poster
6.0

A 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

El Brazo de Oro poster
6.7

Timothy 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

El Arracadas poster
7.9

Mariano 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

The Macabre Footprint poster
5.7

(Sequel to El Rostro Infernal.) Count Brankovan, a vampire, returns from the dead to avenge himself himself on some humans who previously had been bugging him.

The Macabre Footprint

1963

El mundo de las drogas poster
5.8

Federal agents bust a ring that grows and processes opium poppies.

El mundo de las drogas

1964

La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad poster
6.8

A 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

Crosses Over the Wasteland poster
6.2

After a long journey in search of the murderer of his father, a man abuses a beautiful girl next to marry.

Crosses Over the Wasteland

1967

Los ojos del muerto poster
6.0

Mexican horror. No plot synopsis available.

Los ojos del muerto

1987

The White Indian poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

The White Indian

1982

El tunco Maclovio poster
5.6

A 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

Los fenómenos del fútbol poster
4.8

Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera singer and the other brother's a waterboy at the stadium.

Los fenómenos del fútbol

1964

Eye for an Eye poster
5.4

A 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

Eye for an Eye poster
5.4

A 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

Kaliman, the Incredible Man poster
7.4

Archaeologists, 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

Con la muerte en ancas poster
6.2

Roving gunslingers team up against a common enemy, but then they turn on each other.

Con la muerte en ancas

1980

House of the Frights poster
6.2

Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.

House of the Frights

1963

A Golpe de Hacha poster
6.3

A woman is being stalked at night by an unseen assailant who’s chopping up people she knows.

A Golpe de Hacha

1991

Primera Comunión poster
6.4

A 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

La tumba de Matías poster
5.4

Gambler with a heart condition races the clock to get his mausoleum finished. His wife and her lover wait on the sidelines.

La tumba de Matías

1988

El Silencioso poster
6.8

Taciturn gunslinger 'helps out' a widow lady under siege from bad guys.

El Silencioso

1967

Uno para la horca poster
5.8

A 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

San Miguel el alto poster
6.2

A cocker and his driver were attacked by strangers, but leave unharmed. Jesús denounces the fact to his friend Mario, mayor of San Miguel el Alto.

San Miguel el alto

1982

El juez de la soga poster
3.8

In the Old West, a gunfighter punishes the wrongdoers making justice himself, but his mother's words continue to fill his mind: "Justice is divine". Nonetheless, he goes on hanging the culprits, becoming quite famous. When a bunch of outlaws lead by a crooked landlord treats an innocent village and a beautiful girl, the time for the avenger's final mission is arrived.

El juez de la soga

1973

Xoxontla poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Xoxontla

1978

Bromas, S.A poster
5.0

Eccentric millionaire hires a team of young people to help him stage practical jokes.

Bromas, S.A

1967

Bromas, S.A poster
5.0

Eccentric millionaire hires a team of young people to help him stage practical jokes.

Bromas, S.A

1967

They Call Him Marcado poster
4.4

The 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

School for Witches poster
6.0

Team 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

Adventures of Juliancito poster
6.4

Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo.

Adventures of Juliancito

1969

No artwork available
5.8

Escaping from an abusive stepfather, a young woman decides to cross the border as an undocumented worker. She ends up working on a farm where things aren't what they seem...

Las pobres ilegales

1982

Pistoleros de la frontera poster
5.7

"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).

Pistoleros de la frontera

1967

Neighborhood Rats poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

Neighborhood Rats

1988

Shadow of the Black Hand poster
6.0

Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan."

Shadow of the Black Hand

1964

Todo Por Nada poster
7.4

Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.

Todo Por Nada

1969

Todo Por Nada poster
7.4

Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.

Todo Por Nada

1969

Matrimonio y Sexo poster
5.0

A marriage in decline decides to try new things through sex in order to save their relationship.

Matrimonio y Sexo

1970

No artwork available
6.0

A veteran lawman must escort a brutal and bloodthirsty bandit, Big Bill, back to the prison from which he escaped. On the way, the commissioner is wounded and only finds the assistance of Nick Sanders, a young homeless man with great skill with weapons. The lawman and Sanders establish a friendly relationship, and Sanders agrees to escort the bandit. However, the two protagonists are pursued by hostile forces: the prisoner's gang, and law enforcement officers, who are after Sanders on a murder charge. The meeting point is in a town where the local sheriff tries to fulfill his duty by hosting the prisoner while facing the pressures and fears of the townspeople.

Los indomables

1972