Mauricio Walerstein

Directing

Mauricio Walerstein

Born — Died

1949-03-29 — 2016-07-03

Place of birth

Ciudad de México, México

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Mauricio Walerstein was a Mexican filmmaker who resided in Venezuela. He was one of the leading figures in Venezuelan cinema during the 1970s and 1980s.

Known for

The Outsiders poster
8.0

A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.

The Outsiders

1967

No artwork available
NR

Humble, illiterate mechanic Mauricio juggles a secret affair with his aristocratic boss Ingrid while mistreating his wife; a gifted luxury watch goes missing and triggers a chaotic chain of mishaps as he tries to cover his tracks.

The Surprise

1969

Canon (Fidelidad al límite) poster
7.2

Mariana and Julian are a couple that have been happily married for many years. They have two kids: Juan Maria and Bibiana. They are in love and are very successful in their professional lives. They have a wonderful sex life and in the foreplay that they enjoy in privacy, he tells her that she can have sex with other man if she tells him everything in detail.

Canon (Fidelidad al límite)

2014

Passionate Mobile poster
6.3

Gyula Kodar is a commissioner who investigates the murder of an American executive. Keep track of Macabí, an ex and former lover of Mary Laya, widow of the victim. With the help of Kelly, a prostitute who is his sometime lover, Gyula able to find Macabí ; then he discovers that love is superior to survival and freedom is stronger than betrayal.

Passionate Mobile

1994

Rizo poster
6.3

The life of great playwright Alejandro del Rey, his searches, his principles, his women and a hostile environment are the backdrop for a wonderful tale of carnal passions, aesthetic obsessions and love for living.

Rizo

1999

A Shred Of Mist poster
5.3

After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.

A Shred Of Mist

2014

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Outsiders poster
8.0

A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.

The Outsiders

1967

No artwork available
NR

Humble, illiterate mechanic Mauricio juggles a secret affair with his aristocratic boss Ingrid while mistreating his wife; a gifted luxury watch goes missing and triggers a chaotic chain of mishaps as he tries to cover his tracks.

The Surprise

1969

Canon (Fidelidad al límite) poster
7.2

Mariana and Julian are a couple that have been happily married for many years. They have two kids: Juan Maria and Bibiana. They are in love and are very successful in their professional lives. They have a wonderful sex life and in the foreplay that they enjoy in privacy, he tells her that she can have sex with other man if she tells him everything in detail.

Canon (Fidelidad al límite)

2014

Canon (Fidelidad al límite) poster
7.2

Mariana and Julian are a couple that have been happily married for many years. They have two kids: Juan Maria and Bibiana. They are in love and are very successful in their professional lives. They have a wonderful sex life and in the foreplay that they enjoy in privacy, he tells her that she can have sex with other man if she tells him everything in detail.

Canon (Fidelidad al límite)

2014

Passionate Mobile poster
6.3

Gyula Kodar is a commissioner who investigates the murder of an American executive. Keep track of Macabí, an ex and former lover of Mary Laya, widow of the victim. With the help of Kelly, a prostitute who is his sometime lover, Gyula able to find Macabí ; then he discovers that love is superior to survival and freedom is stronger than betrayal.

Passionate Mobile

1994

Passionate Mobile poster
6.3

Gyula Kodar is a commissioner who investigates the murder of an American executive. Keep track of Macabí, an ex and former lover of Mary Laya, widow of the victim. With the help of Kelly, a prostitute who is his sometime lover, Gyula able to find Macabí ; then he discovers that love is superior to survival and freedom is stronger than betrayal.

Passionate Mobile

1994

Rizo poster
6.3

The life of great playwright Alejandro del Rey, his searches, his principles, his women and a hostile environment are the backdrop for a wonderful tale of carnal passions, aesthetic obsessions and love for living.

Rizo

1999

A Shred Of Mist poster
5.3

After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.

A Shred Of Mist

2014

Diamantes, Oro y Amor poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Diamantes, Oro y Amor

1973

Justice is Twelve Years Old poster
5.4

A mischievous girl must deal with her idiotic parents and her libertine relatives during the holidays.

Justice is Twelve Years Old

1973

Love Traps poster
5.6

Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.

Love Traps

1969

Patsy My Love poster
5.3

Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.

Patsy My Love

1969

Crossing the Desert poster
4.0

Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a conventional life with a family that knows and complains about his constant infidelities. When the woman is dying, she sends for Victor and her son Jose Francisco, who is working as his chauffeur. They both answer the summons. Their lives take an unexpected turn.

Crossing the Desert

2012

Crossing the Desert poster
4.0

Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a conventional life with a family that knows and complains about his constant infidelities. When the woman is dying, she sends for Victor and her son Jose Francisco, who is working as his chauffeur. They both answer the summons. Their lives take an unexpected turn.

Crossing the Desert

2012

No artwork available
NR

Billionaire Mauricio Brandy picks up two stranded models after a car crash and begins a risky triangle, as his doctor warns his excesses could kill him.

The Dilemma

1969

The Smoking Fish poster
6.9

A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.

The Smoking Fish

1977

Girl with the Golden Panties poster
4.5

Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.

Girl with the Golden Panties

1980

Woman to Woman poster
4.0

Elsa and her married friend Miranda become jealous and violent toward each other as they compete for the sexual affection of the hunk Sergio. Elsa takes comfort in the arms of Miranda's husband Eloy after Sergio and Miranda run away together. Their lustful desires lead to tragedy in this erotic drama.

Woman to Woman

1987

Woman to Woman poster
4.0

Elsa and her married friend Miranda become jealous and violent toward each other as they compete for the sexual affection of the hunk Sergio. Elsa takes comfort in the arms of Miranda's husband Eloy after Sergio and Miranda run away together. Their lustful desires lead to tragedy in this erotic drama.

Woman to Woman

1987

No artwork available
NR

Modesta arrives in Mexico City to chase acting dreams, but a slick “producer” remakes her into “Yvonne” and tries to sell her to the wealthy, until she rebels and forces him to choose between ambition and love.

Yvonne

1969

Macho y hembra poster
9.0

Thirty-three years old Eva begins the writing of her memories and recalls her past love-life, when she used to live with her boyfriend and her best ladyfriend. In the beginning everything seems to work beetween them but after living together for some time they realize that their interests in life are not the same. They take a big decision.

Macho y hembra

1984

Macho y hembra poster
9.0

Thirty-three years old Eva begins the writing of her memories and recalls her past love-life, when she used to live with her boyfriend and her best ladyfriend. In the beginning everything seems to work beetween them but after living together for some time they realize that their interests in life are not the same. They take a big decision.

Macho y hembra

1984

Macho y hembra poster
9.0

Thirty-three years old Eva begins the writing of her memories and recalls her past love-life, when she used to live with her boyfriend and her best ladyfriend. In the beginning everything seems to work beetween them but after living together for some time they realize that their interests in life are not the same. They take a big decision.

Macho y hembra

1984

Una vez, un hombre... poster
6.4

Young factory worker becomes apprentice to an alchemist, and he ends up going to the moon to repair equipment belonging to The Three Fates.

Una vez, un hombre...

1971

The Treasure of Moctezuma poster
5.7

Santo and Jorge Rivero team-up to stop an international syndicate from stealing Mexico's greatest treasure.

The Treasure of Moctezuma

1968

Historias de mujeres poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Historias de mujeres

1980

The Gates of Paradise poster
4.9

Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.

The Gates of Paradise

1971

Con el Corazón en la Mano poster
4.0

A married woman has a strange relationship with a man who violated her.

Con el Corazón en la Mano

1988

Con el Corazón en la Mano poster
4.0

A married woman has a strange relationship with a man who violated her.

Con el Corazón en la Mano

1988

Playing Under The Moon poster
6.1

This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim. The other Carmen Luisa is beaten by violence within her own family.

Playing Under The Moon

2000

Playing Under The Moon poster
6.1

This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim. The other Carmen Luisa is beaten by violence within her own family.

Playing Under The Moon

2000

Secuestro en Acapulco poster
7.6

Venezuelan boy band flies to Acapulco for a week of performances. Two of them compete for the attentions of a slightly older girl and one is chased by a very clingy plain girl who is treated as a figure of fun. And then some stuff happens and stuff.

Secuestro en Acapulco

1983

The Rules of the Game poster
6.0

A couple is involved in a seduction game to get out of the monotony of their marriage.

The Rules of the Game

1971

Chronicle of a Love poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chronicle of a Love

1974

There's Always a First Time poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

There's Always a First Time

1971

There's Always a First Time poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

There's Always a First Time

1971

When I Want to Cry, I Don't poster
5.0

In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…

When I Want to Cry, I Don't

1973

When I Want to Cry, I Don't poster
5.0

In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…

When I Want to Cry, I Don't

1973

When I Want to Cry, I Don't poster
5.0

In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…

When I Want to Cry, I Don't

1973

Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive poster
6.5

1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in command, a farmer, and the other members of the group will kidnap a north american colonel stationed in Venezuela to force his government to suspend the execution of the vietnamese Nguyen Van Troi, accused of trying to assassinate the American Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.

Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive

1974