Acting
Juan Ángel Martínez
Born — Died
1939-07-19 — 1984-05-10
Place of birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
37 titles
Born in Mexico City in 1939, died there in 1984. He married journalist Marta de la Lama in 1976. He was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Actor in 1982 (Noche de Carnaval), 1985 (Luna de Sangre)
Known for
6.6Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Under the Volcano
1984
6.9When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
Broken Flag
1979
7.3Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
El Albañil
1975
7.9A 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
1975
7.4Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
Juan Armenta El Repatriado
1976
6.3Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Espejismo de la ciudad
1976
Film credits
1980s · 16 titles
6.6Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Under the Volcano
1984
6.7Mexican feature film
Luna de sangre
1984
5.0Pablo Rueda, a frustrated writer and artist, wanders through Mexico City in a labyrinth of dreams and memories that may or may not be those of his novels.
The Day Pedro Infante Died
1982
5.5This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Frida Still Life
1986
6.7Mexican feature film
El gran relajo mexicano
1988
7.2The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
El mil usos
1981
5.1The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
Motel
1984
5.8A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
Contrabando y muerte
1986
6.5Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
The Black Widow
1983
5.7The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact.
Viva el chubasco
1983
4.9A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
El otro
1986
7.9Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
Nosotros los pelados
1984
6.8Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...
Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
1985
5.8Son looks for his father's murderer.
Domingo Corrales
1988
6.8On Carnival Night, many people come together at a nightclub near the docks. The stories of an aging beauty and her cousin, a faded poet, young Marxists, corrupt politicians, and a group of dock workers cross in a night of ribald fun with a darker edge.
Carnival Night
1984
9.0Short film. Unknown plot.
The Sowing of Others
1981
1970s · 21 titles
6.9When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
Broken Flag
1979
7.3Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
El Albañil
1975
7.9A 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
1975
7.4Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
Juan Armenta El Repatriado
1976
6.3Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Espejismo de la ciudad
1976
6.7Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.
Apuntes
1976
5.8After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974
5.7Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
New World
1978
7.3Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
1974
7.1A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
El elegido
1977
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El vals sin fin
1972
5.7Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976
6.0A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
1973
6.0A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
The Holy Inquisition
1974
6.7After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
The Coming of the King Olmos
1975
5.2Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
El Quelite
1970
A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
Esa mi Irene
1975
5.9Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Longitud de Guerra
1976
6.2The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.
Anacrusa
1979
6.4In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.
Los de abajo
1977
4.6On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
Paper Flowers
1978
