Salvador Elizondo

Production

Salvador Elizondo

Born 1932-12-19 · Mexico City, Mexico

Salvador Elizondo Alcalde was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style literature in Latin America, he wrote as a novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and journalist. Out of necessity he also became a filmmaker and producer.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Proud and the Beautiful poster
6.7

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

The Proud and the Beautiful

1953

Stolen Heaven poster
6.5

A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.

Stolen Heaven

1951

Rosenda poster
6.6

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.

Rosenda

1948

Rosenda poster
6.6

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.

Rosenda

1948

Angel of Light poster
5.5

An ancient warrior is looking to correct the error that cost him to lose heaven. He is reincarnated in the body of a man who notices the strange supernatural powers he has and acts without thinking of the consequences causing a race between good and evil with nothing clear and anything possible to happen

Angel of Light

1998

Oh What Beautiful Legs! poster
6.3

A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan (Germán Valdés). Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer. Another common English translation of the title of this film is Tender Pumpkins or Tender Little Pumpkins (although a direct translation is Baby Zucchini).

Oh What Beautiful Legs!

1949

Return to Youth poster
7.4

An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love but things don't go as he planned.

Return to Youth

1954

La hermana impura poster
6.7

Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.

La hermana impura

1948

Fruto prohibido poster
6.2

A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.

Fruto prohibido

1953

Salon Mexico poster
6.6

Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.

Salon Mexico

1949

Apocalypse 1900 poster
NR

An experimental collage of archival imagery and narration that meditates on death, knowledge, and the uneasy promises of modernity at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Apocalypse 1900

1965

Apocalypse 1900 poster
NR

An experimental collage of archival imagery and narration that meditates on death, knowledge, and the uneasy promises of modernity at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Apocalypse 1900

1965

Felipe de Jesús poster
6.7

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Felipe de Jesús

1949

Felipe de Jesús poster
6.7

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Felipe de Jesús

1949

Nosotras, las taquígrafas poster
6.0

Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.

Nosotras, las taquígrafas

1950

The Cockfighter poster
6.0

In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.

The Cockfighter

1948

The Coward poster
6.7

A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.

The Coward

1953

Cinco rostros de mujer poster
6.7

"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?

Cinco rostros de mujer

1947

Playa prohibida poster
5.8

After her father has been murdered, the beautiful but allegedly insane Isabella lives in the house of her two nephews. A scenarist in need of inspiration walks on the beach and slowly unravels a series of murders.

Playa prohibida

1956

The Net poster
6.6

Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops. The Net was one of Mexico's entries at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

The Net

1953

El hipnotizador poster
6.3

A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.

El hipnotizador

1940

Nocturno de amor poster
6.6

Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and both Luis and Marta fill out the necessary paperwork--but only one place is available. Luis is torn apart by his love for both the piano and Marta.

Nocturno de amor

1948

Duelo en las montañas poster
6.0

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.

Duelo en las montañas

1950

El rápido de las 9.15 poster
5.8

It tells the stories of the passengers aboard a nonstop train. Each character is portrayed one by one, and the only thing they have in common is the journey they will take that night.

El rápido de las 9.15

1941