Acting

José Luis Avendaño

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Acting

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39 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 10 titles

1980s · 15 titles

El Barrendero poster
7.8

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

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

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

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maniatico pasional

1980

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

Las movidas del mofles poster
4.6

El Mofles now has his single apartment and feels important in the mechanical workshop, so the other mechanics decide to apply the "Ice Law" to him and ignore him along with his girlfriend "Rebeca del Mar" who is the star of a Cabaret.

Las movidas del mofles

1987

Como México no hay dos poster
7.5

Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.

Como México no hay dos

1981

El vengador del 30-06 poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El vengador del 30-06

1983

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

1985

Las asesinas del panadero poster
5.0

Mexican feature film

Las asesinas del panadero

1989

The Female Scorpion poster
4.0

Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.

The Female Scorpion

1986

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 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

Barrio Salvaje poster
5.4

A group of young drug dealers commit crimes in a sleazy strip club.

Barrio Salvaje

1985

1970s · 11 titles

The Man and the Beast poster
4.6

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

The Man and the Beast

1973

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

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

Chin Chin el teporocho poster
6.1

Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.

Chin Chin el teporocho

1976

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

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

Before the Corpse of a Leader poster
6.4

A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.

Before the Corpse of a Leader

1974

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

Adriana del Rio, actriz poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adriana del Rio, actriz

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

Pasajeros en Transito poster
6.3

A brave group of Mexicans embark on a risky mission to rescue a wounded guerrilla in Bolivia. This guerrilla, hoping to return to Mexico, is currently in the hands of friends who protect him and anxiously await the arrival of rescuers.

Pasajeros en Transito

1978

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