
Directing
Benito Alazraki
Born — Died
1921-10-27 — 2007-06-07
Place of birth
Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Benito Alazraki (27 October 1921 – 6 June 2007) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter whose career spanned commercial features, documentary work, and genre cinema. He founded Panamerican Films, produced and co-wrote the script for Enamorada (directed by Emilio Fernández), and made a cycle of indigenist documentaries for Teleproducciones led by producer Manuel Barbachano Ponce. His feature debut, Raíces—an episodic adaptation of El diosero by Francisco Rojas González—received the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and later a special honor from the Ariel Awards. He then moved into commercial filmmaking with titles such as Los amantes and later directed popular …
Known for
4.8Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.
Santo vs. the Zombies
1962
6.6Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.
Tin Tan y las modelos
1960
5.4Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
Balún Canán
1977
7.8In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Enamorada
1946
5.7A ghost falls in love with the daughter of the owner of an old mansion, but her fiancé will fight to make sure the ghost leaves them alone.
The Ghost of the Lake
1981
6.4Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
The Curse of the Doll People
1961
Behind the camera
4.8Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.
Santo vs. the Zombies
1962
4.8Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.
Santo vs. the Zombies
1962
6.6Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.
Tin Tan y las modelos
1960
5.4Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
Balún Canán
1977
7.8In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Enamorada
1946
7.8In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Enamorada
1946
5.7A ghost falls in love with the daughter of the owner of an old mansion, but her fiancé will fight to make sure the ghost leaves them alone.
The Ghost of the Lake
1981
6.4Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
The Curse of the Doll People
1961
5.7A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
La Casa Que Arde de Noche
1985
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Las tres perfectas casadas
1973
6.4The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out of charge so much trouble.
La tijera de oro
1960
A soldier is assigned to guard the body of a man who was shot. During the night, he encounters a widow who is watching over the burial of her ex-husband.
The Widow
1965
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
Café Colón
1959
5.7Four stories: The encounter between a soldier and a widow in a cemetery. A woman arrives as a maid in an unknown city where she discovers love. Another woman is tasked with caring for her lecherous uncle on his deathbed. A young man gets into trouble with his girlfriend's family when she suggests opening up their relationship.
Love Love Love
1965
6.3Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company
1962
6.5In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them.
La leyenda del tambor
1981
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alicia en el pais del dolar
1988
6.0One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they think about marriage! Mom and Pop have their own #firstworldproblems.
Where Are Our Children Going?
1958
5.2Three monks raise the boy Antonio, who was abandoned at the convent door. The monks are criticized for the way they have educated Antonio, who ends up being a joker.
De hombre a hombre
1961
Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.
The Law of Guns
1960
7.3Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow), Nuestra Señora (Our Lady), El Tuerto (One-Eyed) and La Potranca (The Filly). In El Tuerto, a one eyed boy is relentlessly bullied by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.
Roots
1954
7.3Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow), Nuestra Señora (Our Lady), El Tuerto (One-Eyed) and La Potranca (The Filly). In El Tuerto, a one eyed boy is relentlessly bullied by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.
Roots
1954
6.2A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
El vestido de novia
1959
5.5Hired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.
Amor a balazo limpio
1961
5.7Mexican feature film
Arriba el telón
1989
5.8Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Mundo mágico
1983
5.7Mexican feature film
The Time and the Touch
1962
Novice bullfighter discovers he wasn't cut out for livestock-murdering stardom.
El toro negro
1960
7.0Lorena wife of the taxi driver Juan Camaney , annoyed by his amorous adventures , accepts work as a photographer's model . John is involved in crimes actually committed two guys who take their taxi when he is not . His wife and two friends help him go free but seeing that follows adventurer, marries Lorena photographer and goes abroad . Juan only asks you to send fayuca .
El rey de los taxistas
1988
6.7A lazy slob agrees to a fixed boxing match in order to be accepted by his family and friends.
Yo hice a Roque III
1993
6.7A lazy slob agrees to a fixed boxing match in order to be accepted by his family and friends.
Yo hice a Roque III
1993
6.3Mexican feature film
Los amantes
1956
5.4Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
Peligros de juventud
1960
6.4Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Ladrones de niños
1958
6.4Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Ladrones de niños
1958
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Póker de reinas
1960
Rivalry between two bathing-suit manufacturers -- one run by teenagers and the other by unscrupulous grownups.
A ritmo de twist
1962
4.7Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
Spiritism
1962
5.7The Jiménez brothers and their allies lead an operation to combat a gang of criminals who have the region under a regime of terror. The bloody confrontations begin to produce the first fatalities.
The Gunslingers
1962
Sometimes a man will go to the ends of the earth to win the girl he loves! In this romantic comedy, billionaire Abundio Celso falls in love with the beautiful Claudia. But no matter how many gifts he gives her, he can't impress this girl
Con quien andan nuestros locos
1961
