
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
5.4Roving 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
5.9After 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
7.3This 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
5.7An 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
5.0Conviced that the aliens have taken over the Earth, Andres locks his family under the basement.
They're Here
2014
5.8General 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
6.0This 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
5.78mm 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
6.5A mexican engineer becomes a private detective in Mexico City
Días de Combate
1982
6.5A 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
5.6Strange 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
6.7A horror anthology composed of four episodes from the TV series "La Hora Marcada".
Appointment with Death
1989
5.5Bad guys blackmail some ex-commando veterans into stealing a racehorse.
Asalto En Tijuana
1984
6.5Mario 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
5.8After 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
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
6.8Career criminal is busted out of jail by shadowy figures who want to hire him to help them pull jobs.
La fuga del rojo
1985
5.8Industrial 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
6.5A 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
6.5A 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
5.9Political 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
6.3A 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
6.3Wandering gunslinger trains peaceable farmers to defend themselves for an impending range war.
Cabalgando con la muerte
1989
6.4Five men escape from prison to get revenge on the accomplices who set them up for arrest.
Escape sangriento
1985
6.4Five men escape from prison to get revenge on the accomplices who set them up for arrest.
Escape sangriento
1985
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Contrato con la muerte
1985
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La venganza del rojo
1986
6.0Romantic triangle on the hacienda. Ends badly for all concerned.
Albur de amor
1980
6.3That 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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Ratas de la frontera
1987