Luis Mandoki

Directing

Luis Mandoki

Born

1954-08-17 (72)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Luis Mandoki (born in 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director working in Mexico and Hollywood. Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and the London International Film School. While attending this last institution he directed his first short film Silent Music which won an award at the International Amateur Film Festival of Cannes Film Festival in 1976. Back in Mexico he directed short films and documentaries for the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (the National Institute for the Indigenous), Conacine (National Commission of Film) and the Centro de Produccion de Cortometr…

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

When a Man Loves a Woman poster
6.6

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

When a Man Loves a Woman

1994

Trapped poster
6.2

Held hostage in different cities after their daughter is kidnapped by a master extortionist, a desperate couple must find a way to outsmart a seemingly foolproof plot.

Trapped

2002

Trapped poster
6.2

Held hostage in different cities after their daughter is kidnapped by a master extortionist, a desperate couple must find a way to outsmart a seemingly foolproof plot.

Trapped

2002

White Palace poster
6.7

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

White Palace

1990

Innocent Voices poster
8.2

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

Innocent Voices

2005

Innocent Voices poster
8.2

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

Innocent Voices

2005

Innocent Voices poster
8.2

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

Innocent Voices

2005

Message in a Bottle poster
6.3

A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move on and find happiness.

Message in a Bottle

1999

Angel Eyes poster
6.1

A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.

Angel Eyes

2001

Born Yesterday poster
5.3

A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up to the level of his peers. He fears that the showgirl's lack of etiquette may damage his own social reputation and tries to change her — but fails to realise that her enhanced eloquence will empower her to voice her own strong opinions.

Born Yesterday

1993

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas poster
7.2

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

2012

Presencias poster
6.7

A man returns to his father's cabin where he spent a good part of his childhood and where his younger sister drowned.

Presencias

2022

Presencias poster
6.7

A man returns to his father's cabin where he spent a good part of his childhood and where his younger sister drowned.

Presencias

2022

Gaby: A True Story poster
6.5

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Gaby: A True Story

1987

The Edge poster
4.0

A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Each episode is introduced by a mysterious figure known as The Watcher (Barry Sattels), who arrives on the scene just as strange things being to happen - pushing men and women in crisis over the edge and into bizarre, unexpected actions.

The Edge

1989

El Secreto poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

El Secreto

1980

No artwork available
8.0

Under the water of the dam Miguel Alemán rest the remains of the ancestors of the Mazatec people of San José Independencia and its surroundings.

El día en que vienen los muertos

1982

Fraude: México 2006 poster
6.2

This is a documentary about the mexican presidential election in july 2th 2006, in which the left candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accused fraud against him and the people. This is the story of their fight for democracy.

Fraude: México 2006

2007

Mundo mágico poster
5.8

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

Mundo mágico

1983

Motel poster
5.1

The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.

Motel

1984

¿Quién es el Señor López? poster
5.0

A documentary on Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's campaign to be president of Mexico in 2006 and the country's election on July 2, where ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon appeared to eke out a victory. Lopez Obrador challenged the legitimacy of the vote before Mexico's top electoral court, urging his supporters to dig in for what could be years of protest.

¿Quién es el Señor López?

2006