Alfredo Gurrola

Directing

Alfredo Gurrola

Born

1943-08-11 (83)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

35 titles

Alfredo Gurrola González was born in Mexico City on August 11, 1943. In 1969 he made his first short film in 8 mm Tercer Suspiro, with which he won the Luis Buñuel prize in I Independent Film Competition. At the same time, he starts as an assistant theater director and actor.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Días de Combate poster
6.5

A mexican engineer becomes a private detective in Mexico City

Días de Combate

1982

Cosa fácil poster
6.0

This is a story of revenge, as detective Shayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him blind in one eye. The cases then become personal and Shayne vows to destroy the guilty.

Cosa fácil

1982

Avándaro poster
5.7

8mm short filmed in the Festival de Rock y Ruedas, commonly known as Avándaro, which took place in Valle de Bravo, State of México in Sept. 11th and 12th, 1971.

Avándaro

1971

Hawk or Dove poster
6.5

A musical biopic about José José that turns his rise to stardom into a portrait of fame, desire, and their intimate fractures.

Hawk or Dove

1985

Cabalgando con la muerte poster
6.2

Wandering gunslinger trains peaceable farmers to defend themselves for an impending range war.

Cabalgando con la muerte

1989

Descenso del País de la Noche poster
7.0

A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.

Descenso del País de la Noche

1974

Descenso del País de la Noche poster
7.0

A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.

Descenso del País de la Noche

1974

Call Me Mike poster
5.8

After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.

Call Me Mike

1981

The Highway Killer poster
5.6

Strange things are happening in the carriers' guild: a madman has sown death and paranoia among the truck drivers, and Mario hasn't been himself lately: he's excessively serious and he no longer has a sense of humor. In the midst of the collective hysteria, Fernando begins to doubt his brother Mario, and the fear and the murders continue until there is an attempted rape. Mario also has his doubts about Fernando, and a detective embarks on the investigation with a team of agents disguised as truck drivers to find the real culprit, with results that range from the obvious to the unintentionally humorous.

The Highway Killer

1986

Asalto En Tijuana poster
5.5

Bad guys blackmail some ex-commando veterans into stealing a racehorse.

Asalto En Tijuana

1984

Death Squad poster
6.5

Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.

Death Squad

1985

La venganza del rojo poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La venganza del rojo

1986

Contrato con la muerte poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Contrato con la muerte

1985

Appointment with Death poster
6.7

A horror anthology composed of four episodes from the TV series "La Hora Marcada".

Appointment with Death

1989

La fuga del rojo poster
6.8

Career criminal is busted out of jail by shadowy figures who want to hire him to help them pull jobs.

La fuga del rojo

1985

El juego de la muerte poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El juego de la muerte

1987

Albur de amor poster
6.0

Romantic triangle on the hacienda. Ends badly for all concerned.

Albur de amor

1980

Escape sangriento poster
6.4

Five men escape from prison to get revenge on the accomplices who set them up for arrest.

Escape sangriento

1985

Escape sangriento poster
6.4

Five men escape from prison to get revenge on the accomplices who set them up for arrest.

Escape sangriento

1985

Borrar de la Memoria poster
6.3

A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threatening conditions. The story of a stubborn journalist who undertakes the clarification and bringing to justice of the heinous murder of one student forty years later represents a dedicated effort to force a country from denial to reconciliation and closure of tragic social and political events in a country´s history. A nation cannot allow official cover-ups that seek to delete and erase from the collective memory events that prevent a nation´s march towards social justice.

Borrar de la Memoria

2010

Nuestro Juramento poster
6.0

"Nuestro Juramento" is the life of the singer, Julio Jaramillo, presented episodically, having as background his childhood, youth, his first loves, the apotheosis of his career and his dramatic end. The musicalization of the film has the singles taken from the singer's original recordings.

Nuestro Juramento

1980

Los Dos Matones poster
6.2

That cartel guy wants to buy the Terraza family's ranch, but they don't want to sell. Can they hold out till their tough-guy older brother comes home to take charge of this situation?

Los Dos Matones

1983

La revancha poster
5.8

Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.

La revancha

1985

Ratas de la frontera poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ratas de la frontera

1987

La Sucesión poster
5.9

Political intrigue drama which aired dimly, some of the most common vices Latin American government systems, at least hypothetically and not still be scenarios. Its characters have the dictator whose intentions are to inherit the power to his son, little interest in the issue. In a moment in which he is forced to decide who will succeed him, other characters see the opportunity to replace him in the supreme command of this country without a name.

La Sucesión

1980

Verdugo de traidores poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Verdugo de traidores

1986

La segunda primera matriz poster
7.0

La segunda primera matriz (The second first womb) told visually and poetically a story about humanity, from its origin to the Space Race, as a new frontier. In a first section, amongst shots of clouds, swirls and darkness, it referred to the origin of life. (...) After the launch of a rocket and images about exploring space, the film shows a woman naked in the country. The camera makes a slow tilt down of her body. When passing by the pubis, the camera follows a drop of blood that slides by the leg. When it reaches the floor, a parade of miniature war tanks appear, red, like the ones previously shown. The film ends with a sign that says 'But you can also give birth to nothing'.

La segunda primera matriz

1972

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Contaminación (El quinto jinete)

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México ciudad viva poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

México ciudad viva

1972