Benito Alazraki

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

Behind the camera

Santo vs. the Zombies poster
4.8

Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.

Santo vs. the Zombies

1962

Santo vs. the Zombies poster
4.8

Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.

Santo vs. the Zombies

1962

Tin Tan y las modelos poster
6.6

Ambitious 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

Balún Canán poster
5.4

Based 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

Enamorada poster
7.8

In 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

Enamorada poster
7.8

In 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

The Ghost of the Lake poster
5.7

A 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

The Curse of the Doll People poster
6.4

Four 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

La Casa Que Arde de Noche poster
5.7

A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.

La Casa Que Arde de Noche

1985

Las tres perfectas casadas poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Las tres perfectas casadas

1973

La tijera de oro poster
6.4

The 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

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
5.8

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

Love Love Love poster
5.7

Four 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

Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company poster
6.3

Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.

Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company

1962

La leyenda del tambor poster
6.5

In 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

Alicia en el pais del dolar poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alicia en el pais del dolar

1988

Where Are Our Children Going? poster
6.0

One 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

De hombre a hombre poster
5.2

Three 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

No artwork available
6.0

Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.

The Law of Guns

1960

Roots poster
7.3

Four 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

Roots poster
7.3

Four 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

El vestido de novia poster
6.2

A 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

Amor a balazo limpio poster
5.5

Hired 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

Arriba el telón poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Arriba el telón

1989

Mundo mágico poster
5.8

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

Mundo mágico

1983

The Time and the Touch poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

The Time and the Touch

1962

No artwork available
6.0

Novice bullfighter discovers he wasn't cut out for livestock-murdering stardom.

El toro negro

1960

El rey de los taxistas poster
7.0

Lorena 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

Yo hice a Roque III poster
6.7

A lazy slob agrees to a fixed boxing match in order to be accepted by his family and friends.

Yo hice a Roque III

1993

Yo hice a Roque III poster
6.7

A lazy slob agrees to a fixed boxing match in order to be accepted by his family and friends.

Yo hice a Roque III

1993

Los amantes poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Los amantes

1956

Peligros de juventud poster
5.4

Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.

Peligros de juventud

1960

Ladrones de niños poster
6.4

Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.

Ladrones de niños

1958

Ladrones de niños poster
6.4

Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.

Ladrones de niños

1958

No artwork available
5.4

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

No artwork available
5.7

Rivalry between two bathing-suit manufacturers -- one run by teenagers and the other by unscrupulous grownups.

A ritmo de twist

1962

Spiritism poster
4.7

Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."

Spiritism

1962

The Gunslingers poster
5.7

The 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

No artwork available
6.7

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