Writing

Tomás Pérez Turrent

Born 1935-01-15 · Ciudad de México, México

Acting credits

Claves, 3: Small mother country, great mother country poster
NR

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Third episode: from the 1960s, France and Europe showed a real enthusiasm for Latin American cinema, but the latter remained hampered by numerous economic and political obstacles.

Claves, 3: Small mother country, great mother country

1984

Familiarities poster
6.7

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Familiarities

1969

Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman poster
NR

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. First episode: the influences of Cahiers du cinéma, the New Wave, Italian neorealism. In Brazil, Cinema Novo draws inspiration from these models while drawing on the historical and cultural singularity of the country. The documentary was awarded the Prix Makhila d’or at the Festival de Biarritz, France.

Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

1984

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace poster
5.8

The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the appalling living conditions inside. This documentary records daily life in the prison shortly before its closure.

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace

1977

The Heist poster
6.5

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.

The Heist

1976

Three Stories of Love poster
8.0

Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.

Three Stories of Love

1978

Behind the camera

Sandino poster
6.3

Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."

Sandino

1990

Ulama poster
8.0

The story of sport of Mayas

Ulama

1986

Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
7.8

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

1976

Wandering Lives poster
5.9

Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.

Wandering Lives

1987

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace poster
5.8

The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the appalling living conditions inside. This documentary records daily life in the prison shortly before its closure.

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace

1977

Las Poquianchis poster
7.0

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.

Las Poquianchis

1976

The Mongol Plot poster
4.9

In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.

The Mongol Plot

1977

Un pedazo de noche poster
10.0

In 1940's Mexico, a meeting between a man and a prostitute leads to an unusual relationship.

Un pedazo de noche

1995

The Humiliated poster
5.7

Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.

The Humiliated

1986

The Wrath of a God poster
5.2

On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on.

The Wrath of a God

1988

Alsino and the Condor poster
5.3

Alsino, 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

Mina, viento de libertad poster
6.8

Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, but for eight months he directed a series of more or less brilliant military actions, in the face of the harassment of the Viceroy , Who finally got him arrested.

Mina, viento de libertad

1977

El otro crimen poster
7.5

A sewing factory owner of Lebanese descent rapes a female worker, kills his homosexual partner to frame him for embezzlement, and murders a woman he falls in love with because she is Mexican and he does not want to mix their bloodlines. A detective follows his trail and, just as he has enough evidence to prove his guilt, the 1985 earthquake strikes and he dies.

El otro crimen

1988

Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde poster
6.3

Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.

Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde

1979

Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra poster
5.7

While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.

Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra

1981

Pueblo de Boquilla poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Pueblo de Boquilla

1981

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest poster
3.5

Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

1993