Felipe Cazals

Directing

Felipe Cazals

Born 1937-07-28 · Mexico City, Mexico

Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell poster
9.7

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell

1965

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6.4

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory

His Most Serene Highness

2000

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6.4

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory

His Most Serene Highness

2000

Dulce espiritu poster
6.0

Mexican TV film about spiritism. Part of the series "Cuentos de Madrugada".

Dulce espiritu

1987

Familiarities poster
6.7

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Familiarities

1969

Familiarities poster
6.7

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Familiarities

1969

Familiarities poster
6.7

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Familiarities

1969

The Children's Hour poster
5.7

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to whom he reluctantly tells stories and tries to keep entertained while waiting for his fee to be paid.

The Children's Hour

1969

Canoa: A Shameful Memory poster
7.8

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

1976

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4.7

A beautiful woman is abandoned by her husband during their honeymoon, she stays alone in the hotel where she meets other guests and listen to their stories.

Undressed and Unruly

1991

Rigo is Love poster
4.0

Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.

Rigo is Love

1980

The Great Victory poster
3.6

The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes

The Great Victory

1981

Emiliano Zapata poster
6.4

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.

Emiliano Zapata

1970

The Seven Cucas poster
6.7

A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.

The Seven Cucas

1981

Chicogrande poster
6.7

Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.

Chicogrande

2010

Chicogrande poster
6.7

Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.

Chicogrande

2010

The Citrillo's Turn poster
4.0

1903, before the Revolution… The Citrillo’s Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions –love, betrayal, jealousy, pillage- in an atmosphere of drunkenness and hallucination.

The Citrillo's Turn

2006

The Citrillo's Turn poster
4.0

1903, before the Revolution… The Citrillo’s Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions –love, betrayal, jealousy, pillage- in an atmosphere of drunkenness and hallucination.

The Citrillo's Turn

2006

The Humiliated poster
5.7

Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.

The Humiliated

1986

Under the Shrapnel poster
5.5

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him.

Under the Shrapnel

1983

The Year of the Plague poster
5.3

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

The Year of the Plague

1978

The Year of the Plague poster
5.3

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

The Year of the Plague

1978

The Heist poster
6.5

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.

The Heist

1976

Those Years poster
6.0

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Those Years

1974