Alfredo Gurrola

Directing

Alfredo Gurrola

Born 1943-08-11 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

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.

Acting credits

El 7 Vidas poster
5.4

Roving gambler teams up with a small-town priest to break the bank at a local casino that's sucking the townspeople dry.

El 7 Vidas

1980

El Cometa poster
5.9

After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.

El Cometa

1999

Los Rollos Perdidos poster
7.3

This documentary begins searching for the whereabouts of the films that Servando Gonzalez did about the events of October 2nd 1968 in Tlatelolco, research that later will deal with the fire of March 24th 1982 at the National Film Archives, which destroyed a lot of important part of the footage from Mexico.

Los Rollos Perdidos

2012

Recodo de purgatorio poster
5.7

An unnamed man goes to a hotel to commit suicide with pills while listening to songs by Marlene Dietrich. But that act that seems to trigger the mere memory of places and experiences before dying, suddenly merges with other characters and dramatic experiences, which give life to a limit work, of desperate, almost intolerable courage, obstinate in dismantling all institutional discourses of the history of Mexico, without ceasing to use extraordinarily all possible cinematographic resources.

Recodo de purgatorio

1975

They're Here poster
5.0

Conviced that the aliens have taken over the Earth, Andres locks his family under the basement.

They're Here

2014

Persecución y muerte de Benjamín Argumedo poster
5.8

General Argumedo refuses to disband his troops at the end of the Mexican Revolution because he doesn't trust the new regime.

Persecución y muerte de Benjamín Argumedo

1980

Behind the camera

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

Días de Combate poster
6.5

A mexican engineer becomes a private detective in Mexico City

Días de Combate

1982

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

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

Appointment with Death poster
6.7

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

Appointment with Death

1989

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

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

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

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

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

Descenso del País de la Noche poster
6.5

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
6.5

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

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

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

Cabalgando con la muerte poster
6.3

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

Cabalgando con la muerte

1989

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

Contrato con la muerte poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Contrato con la muerte

1985

La venganza del rojo poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La venganza del rojo

1986

Albur de amor poster
6.0

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

Albur de amor

1980

Los Dos Matones poster
6.3

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

Ratas de la frontera poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ratas de la frontera

1987