Acting

José Luis Avendaño

Acting credits

Once Upon a Time in Mexico poster
6.3

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

2003

Por Tu Maldito Amor poster
7.5

One man must decide two women: one is mature, confident, and an owner of land while the other is young, beautiful, and impetuous. But there’s a problem, they’re both sisters.

Por Tu Maldito Amor

1990

Emboscada poster
6.3

Two men suspect a president and put him a trap to expose him to everyone in the town. Little do they know that more truths will unravel.

Emboscada

1990

El vergonzoso poster
4.8

Softcore sex-farce about a guy with a really big lump in his underpants...and all the women who flock to him.

El vergonzoso

1988

In 'N Out poster
6.7

A man goes to Mexico to attend his father's funeral, 30 years after his father supposedly died.

In 'N Out

1984

El Barrendero poster
7.7

A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.

El Barrendero

1982

Buenas y con... movidas poster
4.6

Sex-worker tries to pose as a society matron long enough to receive a visit from her daughter, the daughter's fiancé and his family.

Buenas y con... movidas

1983

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maniatico pasional

1980

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez poster
5.8

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

1970

Me alquilo por amor poster
3.4

No synopsis available yet.

Me alquilo por amor

1990

Figuras de la pasión poster
5.7

This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.

Figuras de la pasión

1984

Mexicano Hasta Las Cachas poster
7.2

Mauro is your typical deep-heart Mexican man, a merrymaker always ready to sing a song and turn difficulties into a laugh. He's married, has a friend named Hilario, and a girlfriend named Rita, and a girlfriend named Carmen, and a girlfriend named Petra, and other unnamed girlfriends. His life was already troubled with jealous girlfriends fighting each other, when one of his lovers decides to kidnap his baby child from the cradle, to kill him. All turns to the good, in the end.

Mexicano Hasta Las Cachas

1979

The Bricklayers poster
6.6

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.

The Bricklayers

1976

The Man and the Beast poster
4.6

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.

The Man and the Beast

1973

Invitación a morir poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Invitación a morir

1991

Los de abajo poster
6.4

In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.

Los de abajo

1977

Adriana del Rio, actriz poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adriana del Rio, actriz

1979

The Scent of Death poster
6.8

The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.

The Scent of Death

1987

The Fight with the Panther poster
5.3

Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.

The Fight with the Panther

1975

El testamento poster
6.6

After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.

El testamento

1981

Nocturno a Rosario poster
6.0

A tragic romance follows Mexican poet Manuel Acuña's passionate life and his deep love for Rosario de la Peña, a woman favored by Emperor Maximilian's court, leading to heartbreak in 19th century Mexico.

Nocturno a Rosario

1992

The Boy and the Star poster
7.0

Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '

The Boy and the Star

1976

Las asesinas del panadero poster
5.0

Mexican feature film

Las asesinas del panadero

1989

Fuego en el mar poster
6.1

Mariano works as chief driller on an oil platform in Campeche 14 days a month. However, he is obsessed with the idea that his wife Gloria is cheating on him while he is away. Therefore, time and again he asks her to stop working and get pregnant for the second time. However, Gloria refuses to be financially dependent on her husband. The couple's conflicts become more acute when engineer Becker, Gloria's former lover, starts working again in the offices where she works.

Fuego en el mar

1981