José María Fernández Unsáin

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

Behind the camera

Fallaste corazón poster
5.8

Ugly-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

Fallaste corazón poster
5.8

Ugly-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

Amor perdóname poster
5.7

Businessman 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

La noche violenta poster
4.2

Police 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

La noche violenta poster
4.2

Police 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

Las chicas malas del padre Mendez poster
5.7

A 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

La Valentina poster
6.4

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

La Valentina

1966

Dr. Satan poster
5.4

Dr. 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

Cristo te ama poster
5.7

A 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

Upper Paraná poster
7.0

A 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

History of a Scoundrel poster
6.3

A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?

History of a Scoundrel

1964

Tres noches de locura poster
6.0

Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.

Tres noches de locura

1970

Tres noches de locura poster
6.0

Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.

Tres noches de locura

1970

Río Turbio poster
9.0

A man who has just arrived in Río Turbio meets a young woman who makes him reflect on his life.

Río Turbio

1954

El juego de la venganza poster
NR

Is 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

Pobre niño rico poster
6.7

Coco 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

Pobre niño rico poster
6.7

Coco 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

The Kidnapping poster
6.2

A woman is kidnapped and held hostage by a mentally unstable man.

The Kidnapping

1974

Fiebre de juventud poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Fiebre de juventud

1966

The Age of Violence poster
6.0

Daniel, 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

La Noche Del Halcon poster
6.7

A man and his godson fall in love with the same woman.

La Noche Del Halcon

1968

Would You Like to Dine with Me? poster
NR

A 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

Con amor de muerte poster
5.7

Mexican movie

Con amor de muerte

1974

Con amor de muerte poster
5.7

Mexican movie

Con amor de muerte

1974

Conqueror of the Moon poster
6.5

Called 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 artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Los enamorados

1972

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Los enamorados

1972

The Unknown Cowboy poster
6.2

The 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

Las adorables mujercitas poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Las adorables mujercitas

1974

A Secretary's Intimacies poster
6.8

Mexican feature film

A Secretary's Intimacies

1971

La loca de los milagros poster
5.7

Retired 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

Storm in the Ring poster
5.5

Gangsters and crooked gamblers try to interfere with a wrestling championship.

Storm in the Ring

1963

Las recién casadas poster
5.8

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.

Las recién casadas

1962

El gaucho y el diablo poster
NR

A rancher makes a pact with the devil to achieve happiness and love.

El gaucho y el diablo

1952

Campeón del barrio poster
6.0

A 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

Un tipo a todo dar poster
5.8

Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.

Un tipo a todo dar

1963

Un tipo a todo dar poster
5.8

Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.

Un tipo a todo dar

1963

El juego de la guitarra poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

El juego de la guitarra

1973

El juego de la guitarra poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

El juego de la guitarra

1973

Un hombre en la trampa poster
5.8

Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.

Un hombre en la trampa

1965