
Writing
José María Fernández Unsáin
Born — Died
1918-08-10 — 1997-06-18
Place of birth
Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Known for
Writing
Credits
40 titles
José María Fernández Unsáin (10 August 1918 – 18 June 1997) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter, and playwright. He was exiled to Mexico after the 1955 Revolución Libertadora, because of his cultural relationship with Eva Perón[2] and The National Theatre or Comedy, Cervantes National Theatre (first director), and the Labour Worker Theatre of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT) (founder with others artists and directors). He migrated to Mexico in 1958 and worked on the screenplays of hundreds of films over the next several decades, including Sed de amor directed by Alfonso Corona Blake (1958); La diligencia de la muerte directed by Rogelio A. González (1959); De tal palo ta…
Known for
5.8Ugly-duckling older guy falls in love with a beautiful young woman. Offering her a marriage of convenience, to give her baby a father, might be a way to win her affection... Ya think?
Fallaste corazón
1970
5.7Businessman Carlos meets Ana María in a Mexico City nightclub. He escorts her home, and makes a date for the next day. Ana María is actually a prostitute whose pimp, Arturo, thinks Carlos would be a good client, and urges her to be nice to him. They fall in love, and Carlos proposes marriage to her, indicating he must return to Puerto Rico soon.
Amor perdóname
1967
4.2Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
La noche violenta
1970
5.7A priest is dismissed from his parish, so he decides to open a halfway house to rehabilitate sex workers.
Las chicas malas del padre Mendez
1970
6.4A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
La Valentina
1966
5.4Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?
Dr. Satan
1966
Behind the camera
5.8Ugly-duckling older guy falls in love with a beautiful young woman. Offering her a marriage of convenience, to give her baby a father, might be a way to win her affection... Ya think?
Fallaste corazón
1970
5.8Ugly-duckling older guy falls in love with a beautiful young woman. Offering her a marriage of convenience, to give her baby a father, might be a way to win her affection... Ya think?
Fallaste corazón
1970
5.7Businessman Carlos meets Ana María in a Mexico City nightclub. He escorts her home, and makes a date for the next day. Ana María is actually a prostitute whose pimp, Arturo, thinks Carlos would be a good client, and urges her to be nice to him. They fall in love, and Carlos proposes marriage to her, indicating he must return to Puerto Rico soon.
Amor perdóname
1967
4.2Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
La noche violenta
1970
4.2Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
La noche violenta
1970
5.7A priest is dismissed from his parish, so he decides to open a halfway house to rehabilitate sex workers.
Las chicas malas del padre Mendez
1970
6.4A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
La Valentina
1966
5.4Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?
Dr. Satan
1966
5.7A young woman is fired by her lover from her job in a bookstore and meets a trafficker she falls in love with. She becomes a heroin and prostitutes to buy the drug. The trafficker is arrested and she surrenders to the supplier in exchange for drugs. He pretends to care for a cemetery and demands money from him. She desperately kills him. When the trafficker leaves, he decides to rebuild his life and goes as a doctor to the mountains with the young woman. She also wants to quit the drug and succeeds with her help, but when boarding a vehicle they are killed by four gunmen. Source: http://www.imcine.gob.mx/cine-mexicano/pelicula2425
Cristo te ama
1975
7.0A commissioner from Corrientes solves cases according to his own system. Based on the novel "Los casos de don Frutos Gómez", by Velmiro Ayala Gauna.
Upper Paraná
1958
6.3A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?
History of a Scoundrel
1964
6.0Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.
Tres noches de locura
1970
6.0Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.
Tres noches de locura
1970
9.0A man who has just arrived in Río Turbio meets a young woman who makes him reflect on his life.
Río Turbio
1954
NRIs it confusing? Is it innocent? Is it gratifying? Is it craziness? Exciting! That's how it is the Game of the Revenge. Exciting, sinuous, erotic, malignant. That is the Game of the Revenge. Jacqueline Andere, Milton Rodriguez and Susana Dosamantes, in the Game of the Revenge.
El juego de la venganza
1973
6.7Coco is a boy who feels lonely because his father works all the time and his mother is always playing cards with other women. When he hears that his parents are planning to divorce, Coco makes plans to run away.
Pobre niño rico
1974
6.7Coco is a boy who feels lonely because his father works all the time and his mother is always playing cards with other women. When he hears that his parents are planning to divorce, Coco makes plans to run away.
Pobre niño rico
1974
6.2A woman is kidnapped and held hostage by a mentally unstable man.
The Kidnapping
1974
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Fiebre de juventud
1966
6.0Daniel, the leader of a criminal youth gang, views new guy Victor first as a threat, then as possible addition to his gang. When Victor refuses, but sets his eyes on Daniel's Sister Nancy, Daniel orders her to get close to Victor so she can persuade him to join the gang. Daniel does not expect that instead the relationship with Victor makes Nancy longing for a life without crime. A juvenile-delinquent-crime-musical!
The Age of Violence
1964
6.7A man and his godson fall in love with the same woman.
La Noche Del Halcon
1968
NRA mentally troubled man, who places traps in the mountain for bikers, kidnaps one of his victims and forces her to love him.
Would You Like to Dine with Me?
2022
5.7Mexican movie
Con amor de muerte
1974
5.7Mexican movie
Con amor de muerte
1974
6.5Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon!
Conqueror of the Moon
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Los enamorados
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Los enamorados
1972
6.2The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.
The Unknown Cowboy
1967
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Las adorables mujercitas
1974
6.8Mexican feature film
A Secretary's Intimacies
1971
5.7Retired singer with a history of mental illness acts as housemother for a gaggle of young adult 'friends' who exploit and disrespect her.
La loca de los milagros
1975
5.5Gangsters and crooked gamblers try to interfere with a wrestling championship.
Storm in the Ring
1963
5.8Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
Las recién casadas
1962
NRA rancher makes a pact with the devil to achieve happiness and love.
El gaucho y el diablo
1952
6.0A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.
Campeón del barrio
1964
5.8Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.
Un tipo a todo dar
1963
5.8Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.
Un tipo a todo dar
1963
6.4No synopsis available yet.
El juego de la guitarra
1973
6.4No synopsis available yet.
El juego de la guitarra
1973
5.8Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.
Un hombre en la trampa
1965
