Max Kerlow

Acting

Max Kerlow

Born — Died

1928-03-03 — 2016-07-06

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Prolific Mexican actor with more than 100 films in his filmography. His first intention was to be a painter. However, life would take him on other paths and his incursion into the world of the arts would be as an architect, a career he studied at the suggestion of a cousin just out of school, given his interest in painting, and from which he graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1954. Shortly after, he dedicated himself to promoting crafts with artists such as Manuel Felguérez and Felipe Ehrenberg, one of his first assistants. With Felguérez he devised a different line of ceramics and with Ehrenberg he invented a technique for painting on amate paper, which he late…

Known for

Cabeza de Vaca poster
6.8

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.

Cabeza de Vaca

1991

I Escaped from Devil's Island poster
5.1

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

I Escaped from Devil's Island

1973

The Mansion of Madness poster
4.8

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.

The Mansion of Madness

1973

My Mexican Shivah poster
6.6

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

My Mexican Shivah

2007

Foxtrot poster
4.8

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.

Foxtrot

1976

Nora's Will poster
7.1

Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 days for the funeral. Nora had planned before his death, a Machiavellian plan in order that Joseph was the one who has to take care of his funeral. But Nora forgot a small detail, a mysterious photograph stored under her bed, that will remind Joseph that the greatest love stories, sometimes are hidden in the smallest places.

Nora's Will

2008

Film credits

2000s · 13 titles

My Mexican Shivah poster
6.6

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

My Mexican Shivah

2007

Nora's Will poster
7.1

Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 days for the funeral. Nora had planned before his death, a Machiavellian plan in order that Joseph was the one who has to take care of his funeral. But Nora forgot a small detail, a mysterious photograph stored under her bed, that will remind Joseph that the greatest love stories, sometimes are hidden in the smallest places.

Nora's Will

2008

Sea of Dreams poster
5.5

On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place where people carry strong beliefs that can fulfill the heart's deepest desires. A beautiful ...

Sea of Dreams

2006

Compassionate Sex poster
5.8

Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lolita", becomes so famous that all men seek out her help now. It is through her compassionate sex that she brings back the colour and the happiness to a town that was immersed in sadness. Written by HoMordomo.

Compassionate Sex

2000

A Wonderful World poster
7.7

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

A Wonderful World

2006

I Murder Seriously poster
5.6

A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been handed a most unusual case -- a number of local prostitutes have been murdered, and it's up to Martinez to bring in the killer. What makes the case truly unusual, though, is the manner of death; it seems the hookers all died as a result of having orgasms so powerful they were literally fatal. Teaming up with cultural anthropologist Onofre (Daniel Giménez Cacho), Martinez hits the streets looking for clues, and eventually gets some unexpected help from Father Gorkisolo (Santiago Segura), a priest with a unusually deep knowledge of sexual matters. Asesino en Serio was the first feature film from director Antonio Urrutia; noted Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro served as executive producer.

I Murder Seriously

2002

Love, Pain and Vice Versa poster
5.3

Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destined to be with her. She reports a rape to the police, describing the man of her dreams to a sketch artist. The police find a suspect: he's Marcos, a physician. Chelo tells the police this is not the man who raped her, but now she has Marcos in her sights. Her plan for him to fall in love with her is complicated by his having a fiancée. What can Chelo do? Meanwhile, Marcos has violent dreams about an unfamiliar woman. Chronologies overlap, glass breaks. Can a mind lie to itself?

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

2008

Lucía, Lucía poster
5.2

Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.

Lucía, Lucía

2003

La última noche poster
6.6

This film is different from the previous ones; its themes are more mature, and the characters and situations are different. The protagonist is still Mariana Ávila, who now has to face adulthood and marriage.

La última noche

2005

No artwork available
9.0

The documentary film Remembrance is an outline of the past century taking as a motif the life of Luis Frank, a Lithuanian emigrant. It is a journey through a time wich the world was made by war, that of wich we have so many times heard of and by wich we live constantly under menace. Emigration, war, freedom, childhood, the quest for something, a country -Mexico- kept in memories, are some of the subjects dealt within this film. Remembrance is the story of people who have traveled the world in search of a place where to belong, people whose lives were punctuated by ruptures.

Remembrance

2003

El Viaje de la Nonna poster
5.8

A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!

El Viaje de la Nonna

2008

Espíritu deportivo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Espíritu deportivo

2004

Moctezuma's Revenge poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

Moctezuma's Revenge

2002

1990s · 14 titles

Cabeza de Vaca poster
6.8

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.

Cabeza de Vaca

1991

Luces de la noche poster
5.7

On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.

Luces de la noche

1998

If I Never See You Again poster
6.6

Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which finally comes true when they are contracted to serve as musical background for strippers of a second class cabaret. In case i never see you again, is a movie about life, death, melancholy and the quest for happiness.

If I Never See You Again

1997

Esmeralda Comes by Night poster
5.3

The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.

Esmeralda Comes by Night

1997

Viva San Isidro! poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viva San Isidro!

1995

The Queen of the Night poster
5.1

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.

The Queen of the Night

1994

Bandidos poster
6.2

In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival.

Bandidos

1991

Dentro de la noche poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Dentro de la noche

1991

Sex Education In Brief Lessons poster
4.7

Alejandra and Ana are college friends, both are virgin and hope to find the love of their life soon. Ana meets Miguel, but they agree to just be friends. Alejandra meets Esteban, a well known womanizer.

Sex Education In Brief Lessons

1997

El tesoro de Clotilde poster
5.5

Clotilde dies, and her god-daughter has promised to carry out a final wish for her. Two gangs of thieves and the cops interfere with her fulfilling the promise.

El tesoro de Clotilde

1994

Juegos nocturnos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Juegos nocturnos

1992

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

Perfume, efecto inmediato poster
6.0

A cosmetologist invents a perfume that helps her sister seduce her boss. When her boss realizes the power of the perfume he will try to steal the formula.

Perfume, efecto inmediato

1994

Las buenas costumbres poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Las buenas costumbres

1990

1980s · 8 titles

1970s · 23 titles

I Escaped from Devil's Island poster
5.1

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

I Escaped from Devil's Island

1973

The Mansion of Madness poster
4.8

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.

The Mansion of Madness

1973

Foxtrot poster
4.8

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.

Foxtrot

1976

The Bees poster
4.7

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.

The Bees

1978

Las Poquianchis poster
7.0

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.

Las Poquianchis

1976

The Prophet Mimi poster
6.8

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.

The Prophet Mimi

1973

Letters from Marusia poster
5.6

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.

Letters from Marusia

1975

The Aztec Karate Fighter poster
5.9

Potter who makes fake pre-Colombian statues gets mixed up with thieves and treasure-hunters at an Aztec art museum.

The Aztec Karate Fighter

1976

Aunt Isabel's Garden poster
5.5

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

Aunt Isabel's Garden

1972

Three Stories of Love poster
8.0

Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.

Three Stories of Love

1978

The Coming of the King Olmos poster
6.7

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?

The Coming of the King Olmos

1975

Brothers of the Wind poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Brothers of the Wind

1977

El viaje poster
6.6

After the death of his mother, a man agrees to travel to Europe as a tourist guide falls in love with the head of the agency.

El viaje

1977

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

En Defensa Propia poster
5.8

The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up.

En Defensa Propia

1978

La casta divina poster
6.7

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.

La casta divina

1977

Reed: Insurgent Mexico poster
6.0

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

1973

Maria of My Heart poster
6.5

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.

Maria of My Heart

1979

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

Celestina poster
6.0

An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.

Celestina

1976

Naufragio poster
5.6

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.

Naufragio

1978

South Southeast: 2604 poster
7.5

A pair of spies disguised as tourists are stalked by mysterious figures in Mexico's most attractive locations.

South Southeast: 2604

1974

The Diabolical poster
4.6

Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the satanic mark on her body. He was caught and was prepared for hanging. At moment before hanging Dave uses his supernatural power and makes a local shoe-shiner his accomplice. While running from sheriff Dave was injured and after some time dies. But before his death Dave gives this medallion to shoe-shiner Oscar and asks him to take revenge in the name of Satan. So he does it and also continue to rape and kill women never forgetting to leave satanic mark on their bodies...

The Diabolical

1977