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

Under the Volcano poster
6.6

Against 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

Broken Flag poster
6.9

When 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

El Albañil poster
7.3

Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.

El Albañil

1975

Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
7.9

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

1975

Juan Armenta El Repatriado poster
7.4

Juan 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

Espejismo de la ciudad poster
6.3

Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.

Espejismo de la ciudad

1976

Film credits

1980s · 16 titles

Under the Volcano poster
6.6

Against 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

Luna de sangre poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Luna de sangre

1984

The Day Pedro Infante Died poster
5.0

Pablo 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

Frida Still Life poster
5.5

This 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

El gran relajo mexicano poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

El gran relajo mexicano

1988

El mil usos poster
7.2

The 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

Motel poster
5.1

The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.

Motel

1984

Contrabando y muerte poster
5.8

A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.

Contrabando y muerte

1986

The Black Widow poster
6.5

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.

The Black Widow

1983

Viva el chubasco poster
5.7

The 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

El otro poster
4.9

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.

El otro

1986

Nosotros los pelados poster
7.9

Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.

Nosotros los pelados

1984

Mexicano ¡Tú puedes! poster
6.8

Vicente 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

Domingo Corrales poster
5.8

Son looks for his father's murderer.

Domingo Corrales

1988

Carnival Night poster
6.8

On 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

The Sowing of Others poster
9.0

Short film. Unknown plot.

The Sowing of Others

1981

1970s · 21 titles

Broken Flag poster
6.9

When 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

El Albañil poster
7.3

Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.

El Albañil

1975

Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
7.9

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

1975

Juan Armenta El Repatriado poster
7.4

Juan 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

Espejismo de la ciudad poster
6.3

Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.

Espejismo de la ciudad

1976

Apuntes poster
6.7

Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.

Apuntes

1976

La muerte de Pancho Villa poster
5.8

After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.

La muerte de Pancho Villa

1974

New World poster
5.7

Towards 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

Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? poster
7.3

Carrying 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

El elegido poster
7.1

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

El elegido

1977

El vals sin fin poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El vals sin fin

1972

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! poster
5.7

Librado, 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

Reed: Insurgent Mexico poster
6.0

A 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

The Holy Inquisition poster
6.0

A 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

The Coming of the King Olmos poster
6.7

After 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

El Quelite poster
5.2

Agapito, 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

No artwork available
9.0

A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975

Esa mi Irene

1975

Longitud de Guerra poster
5.9

Based 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

Anacrusa poster
6.2

The 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

Los de abajo poster
6.4

In 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

Paper Flowers poster
4.6

On 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