Acting

Emilio Ebergenyi

Acting credits

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9.0

Draws on the story of the same name by the American John Kenneth Turner, who, like some of his compatriots, such as the great journalist John Reed, witnessed and took part in the Mexican Revolution. Like Reed, author of Insurgent Mexico, JK Turner not only exposed the injustices of the Porfirio Díaz regime but also continued to collaborate with Mexican democrats, particularly with President Madero.

The Turner Journalist

1967

Calacán poster
5.7

Puppet/live actor movie; "Skeletown" is where Dia de los Muertos candies and baked goods come from... but USA industrialists are trying to suppress the local traditions, flooding the market with plastic novelties and mass-produced snack foods.

Calacán

1987

The Realm of Fortune poster
5.3

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

The Realm of Fortune

1986

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace poster
5.8

The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the appalling living conditions inside. This documentary records daily life in the prison shortly before its closure.

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace

1977

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8.0

The tale of a guard at Chapultepec Castle that has fallen in love with a beautiful ghost who haunts its hallowed halls, and his tragic but happy end.

The Last Moon

1990

The Overturning Of The Heart poster
5.3

1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.

The Overturning Of The Heart

1996