
Acting
Óscar Chávez
Born — Died
1935-03-20 — 2020-05-30
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
18 titles
Óscar Chávez Fernández (20 March 1935 – 30 April 2020), better known simply as Óscar Chávez, was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. He was the major proponent of the Nueva Trova movement in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s.
Known for
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Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
1997
8.0A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
The Outsiders
1967
9.0In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.
Desperate
1987
5.5During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
La Generala
1971
5.7Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.
The World's Oldest Profession
1970
5.3Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970
Film credits
1980s · 2 titles
9.0In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.
Desperate
1987
6.3In 1930s Los Angeles, Mexican immigrant Pedro J. González becomes a pioneering Spanish-language radio star before being wrongly convicted and imprisoned at San Quentin.
Break of Dawn
1988
1970s · 7 titles
5.5During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
La Generala
1971
5.7Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.
The World's Oldest Profession
1970
5.3Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970
5.8Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.
Las cadenas del mal
1970
6.5Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Maria of My Heart
1979
5.7Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.
Peach Blossom
1970
4.2Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his trusted attorney, Arturo, will be in possession of the whole patrimony. Luz being much younger than her late husband, resents this clause that will keep her captive of the dead man for so long. Her attempts to seek release in the night spots of the town do not prove satisfying. Lucia, the maid, starts an extortion scheme against the widow, menacing to denounce the murder of Raimundo with venom, as Luz and Arturo were lovers. The faithful cook and the gardener are dismissed and Lucía literally takes her employer's image, clothes, and manners - forcing Luz to play humbly to her (progressively insane) demands.
Las cautivas
1973
1960s · 5 titles
8.0A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
The Outsiders
1967
A boy discovers desire and love, and that even when they are close, they can sometimes be far away.
August Afternoon
1965
7.0Three stories: A young man disobeys his aunt by not killing a cat. An orphan boy, in love with his cousin, is fond of war novels, imagining himself as a hero. A couple of schoolboys in love wander around the city and forget the brutality of their respective homes.
Distant Wind
1966
7.0In the summer of revolt 1968, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up close – and like many of his subjects and fellow comrades, would pay a high price for his audacity. Fifty years later, his movie is no longer a secret.
The Shout
1968
5.4A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.
Santa
1969



