Alfonso Corona Blake

Directing

Alfonso Corona Blake

Born — Died

1919-01-02 — 1999-01-21

Place of birth

Autlán de Navarro (México)

Known for

Directing

Credits

32 titles

Alfonso Corona Blake (2 January 1919 – 21 January 1999) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 27 films between 1956 and 1971. His film The Road of Life won the Honourable Mention (Director) award at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.

Known for

Behind the camera

Santo vs. the Vampire Women poster
4.2

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.

Santo vs. the Vampire Women

1962

Santo in the Wax Museum poster
4.9

El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!

Santo in the Wax Museum

1963

Santo in the Wax Museum poster
4.9

El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!

Santo in the Wax Museum

1963

The Sin of a Mother poster
6.4

A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...

The Sin of a Mother

1960

Tragic Cabaret poster
6.3

A bar-girl's job becomes inescapable after her involvement in a murder. The bar owner deals with relationship troubles from her cheating boyfriend and her adopted daughter's ambitions.

Tragic Cabaret

1958

Tragic Cabaret poster
6.3

A bar-girl's job becomes inescapable after her involvement in a murder. The bar owner deals with relationship troubles from her cheating boyfriend and her adopted daughter's ambitions.

Tragic Cabaret

1958

No artwork available
4.5

Scheming and double-crosses as an old man and his doxy go to Guatemala to retrieve a stolen treasure that he hid there in years past.

Pecado

1962

Heaven and Earth poster
6.2

Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.

Heaven and Earth

1962

The World of the Vampires poster
5.6

A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man who knows how to destroy him with a peculiar piece of music.

The World of the Vampires

1961

The Road of Life poster
6.6

The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.

The Road of Life

1956

Violent Summer poster
4.6

During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.

Violent Summer

1960

El centauro Pancho Villa poster
6.7

M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.

El centauro Pancho Villa

1967

Thirst for Love poster
6.2

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble

Thirst for Love

1959

Thirst for Love poster
6.2

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble

Thirst for Love

1959

The Woman and the Beast poster
5.5

Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.

The Woman and the Beast

1959

The Woman and the Beast poster
5.5

Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.

The Woman and the Beast

1959

Arrullo de Dios poster
6.0

Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.

Arrullo de Dios

1967

Alerta, alta tension poster
5.5

After a criminal gang kidnaps a scientist with valuable information about nuclear weapons, an undercover agent named Jorge Rubio tries to infiltrate this gang in order to deal with the situation. The gang, however, quickly unmasks Rubio and uses both brainwashing and torture techniques on him. They also create a clone of Rubio, thus setting up a show-down battle between the two look-alikes.

Alerta, alta tension

1969

Más allá de la violencia poster
5.7

The young pacifist Claudio is saddened to see some children playing war. He goes with a group of rebels who make fun of him and invite him to participate in a motorcycle race where the prize is a girl. Ál wins the race with the help of Rafael, the head of the band, and decides to buy to join the group, on a trip they meet with some hippies led by a psychologist who opposes drugs. Two of the gang members, Gabriel and Bernardo, attack one of the girls; the hippies in revenge violate Mimi and sa Julia, for which Bernardo kills a hippie. Claudio fights with him but Mimi intervenes and receives a stab aimed at Claudio. Ál recalls that Rafael was a brother and a lover of her. The police arrest the hippies and scold the parents for the behavior of the young people.

Más allá de la violencia

1971

No artwork available
6.0

A middle-aged professor, disillusioned with his life and struggling through a midlife crisis, becomes infatuated with a much younger woman named Emma.

Felicidad

1957

Lágrimas de amor poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Lágrimas de amor

1959

Yo pecador poster
6.6

Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.

Yo pecador

1959

Mujeres de medianoche poster
4.0

Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.

Mujeres de medianoche

1969

No artwork available
6.2

In his home-town, he's a respectable rancher... but out on the range he's a hitman for hire. His son finds out about his double life, and...

Dos valientes

1969

La torre de marfil poster
6.0

Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.

La torre de marfil

1958

Creo en ti poster
5.8

A rich young woman marries a man who will disappoint her emotionally and financially.

Creo en ti

1960

Audaz y bravero poster
5.2

Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.

Audaz y bravero

1965

Las pecadoras poster
5.2

Jewel-thief and his girlfriend try to go straight.

Las pecadoras

1968

Fiebre de juventud poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Fiebre de juventud

1966

Yo El Valiente poster
6.3

A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret and never be able to undo.

Yo El Valiente

1964

Yo El Valiente poster
6.3

A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret and never be able to undo.

Yo El Valiente

1964

Los malvados poster
6.2

Four amoral drifters team up to retrieve a cache of gold coins from its hiding place.

Los malvados

1966