Ernesto Yáñez

Acting

Ernesto Yáñez

Born 1946-11-28 · Ciudad de México, México

Acting credits

Snake Skin poster
6.0

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a nightmare.

Snake Skin

2002

Pastorela poster
7.1

Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.

Pastorela

2011

Guerrero Negro poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Guerrero Negro

1994

Polvo De Luz poster
6.0

A filmmaker spends his final days with his wife at his family's secluded hacienda.

Polvo De Luz

1989

Angel Dust poster
3.6

In the city of Latinopolis a man named Sacro is hired by a powerful company to carry out a very dangerous mission with the help of Caos, an angel hunter. Meanwhile in another part of the city Susana and Miguel, two Alter-globalization supporters are looking for their sister Susana, who mysteriously disappeared. In their search they will cross paths with an assorted mix of characters that are lost somehow in this unbelievable but true story of craziness and love.

Angel Dust

2007

No One Writes to the Colonel poster
5.7

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.

No One Writes to the Colonel

1999

The Realm of Fortune poster
5.3

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

The Realm of Fortune

1986

The Beginning and the End poster
7.7

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

The Beginning and the End

1994

Love Lies poster
5.0

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship

Love Lies

1989

Such is Life poster
5.4

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting her revenge.

Such is Life

2001

Bandido poster
4.4

When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.

Bandido

2004

Otaola o la república del exilio poster
5.2

A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola.

Otaola o la república del exilio

2000

Astucia poster
6.3

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

Astucia

1986

Como tú me has deseado poster
5.8

Non-conformist advertising executive pressured to toe the line and behave.

Como tú me has deseado

2006

Devil's Mountain poster
5.5

Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.

Devil's Mountain

1975

Crazy Carnival poster
4.6

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.

Crazy Carnival

2006

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez poster
7.3

Juan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spectacular act of beheading that it could again return it to its glory years. But without any fifth in the bag and with time running out to build a machine is forced to rob a real guillotine without this weighs a terrible curse.

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez

2009

Curandero poster
5.7

A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City

Curandero

2005

Knock Out poster
6.8

Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.

Knock Out

1984

Crepúsculo Rojo poster
5.0

The repossession of a ranch because of the inability to pay off a mortgage causes a confrontation between two great friends: Valente and Dagoberto. As the last chance to save his patrimony, Valente robs a bank. Dagoberto is ordered to catch him and enforce the law. In the chase, old quarrels between them surface. These friends must face off in a duel under the red sunset of Iturbide, Nuevo León.

Crepúsculo Rojo

2010

Las caguamas ninja poster
7.0

A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together.

Las caguamas ninja

1991

Memorias de un borracho poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Memorias de un borracho

2004

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest poster
3.5

Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

1993

Euforia poster
4.0

Stuck in a world of dreams and nostalgia, Pat struggles to forget the limelight and fleeting fame of his glory days. When a beautiful young woman named Ana saves his life, Pat agrees to drive her to her ancestral home, in hopes that she can save him from his own past. Unpaved roads treat the pair to a bumpy adventure full of anger management, Beethoven and The Doors, as the journey proves to be full of lessons and revelations.

Euforia

2010