Armando Casas

Production

Armando Casas

Born 1964-06-14 · Ciudad de México, México

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Drunk Angry Idiot poster
5.4

A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who always gets drunk.

Drunk Angry Idiot

2018

200 Years Later poster
6.5

Documentary showing how the growing number of U.S. Citizens living in San Miguel de Allende has caused problems for the local population and their traditions.

200 Years Later

2012

Intangible Blue poster
NR

A journey above and below the sea, portraying the charm and diversity of the waters of northwest Mexico. A team of urban documentary filmmakers and divers set sail for several weeks on a boat, The Sandman, and discover the unexplored: surprisingly large and friendly creatures, waters teeming with life, beauty, and movement concentrated in natural reserves of the Gulf of California and the Pacific, unique in the world.

Intangible Blue

2012

Half of the World poster
5.5

The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.

Half of the World

2011

Familia Gang poster
5.4

A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this happen, he cuts a deal with his family, who require a dead body to pose as a double. Topillero is responsible of executing the plan. But on this journey he is reunited with his wife and son, whom he abandoned years ago.

Familia Gang

2014

Un mundo raro poster
5.5

Emilio is a young Mexican boy who dreams of becoming a comedian. He, his brother and his friends are involved in kidnapping. One day a TV presenter is kidnapped, and the encounter is seen by Emilio as an opportunity for fame.

Un mundo raro

2001

Un mundo raro poster
5.5

Emilio is a young Mexican boy who dreams of becoming a comedian. He, his brother and his friends are involved in kidnapping. One day a TV presenter is kidnapped, and the encounter is seen by Emilio as an opportunity for fame.

Un mundo raro

2001

Mudstained Flower poster
6.0

A married, middle-aged well-known biochemist and university teacher Augusto, leaves his wife, his job and the comfort of his life to go after Marlene, a 14-year-old teenager with extraordinary beauty who burst into his life unexpectedly. One day, Marlene is taken from the custody of Augustus by Genaro, a psychotic sailor, who seduces and finally kidnaps her by taking to the ominous port of Tampico, where Augustus will seek her to try to free her, not without giving her life to pain and atonement, undergoing a deep personal transformation.

Mudstained Flower

2011

The Place Of The Three Waterfalls. Little Stories Of Hiroshima poster
3.0

The Buddhist temple Mitaki, located a few kilometers from Hiroshima, epicenter of the 1945 atomic explosion, was protected by the surrounding mountains from the radiation that caused the bomb. The film presents the experience of three characters from the city: a young artist, an adult artist and a monk.

The Place Of The Three Waterfalls. Little Stories Of Hiroshima

2019

Para vestir santos poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Para vestir santos

2004

Olimpia poster
6.6

The film tells the story of Raquel, Rodolfo and Hernán, members of a brigade at the UNAM during the student movement in Mexico in 1968. Through their photographs, films and writings, we will know the history of the day that the army took the university and how their students united, shouted and never forgot.

Olimpia

2018

The Convict Patient poster
9.0

On February th 1970, Carlos Castañeda de la Fuente tried to assassinate the Mexican President to avenge the Tlatelolco massacre from October 2nd 1968, defying the most repressive regime in the contemporary Mexican history. Forty years later, this failed avenger survived the system´s disproportionate retaliation, only to wander Mexico City´s streets as a vagrant.

The Convict Patient

2012

No artwork available
NR

This documentary captures a 1996 interview between Armando Casas and cartoonist Antonio Helguera, exploring his career from its beginnings to his final public appearances in 2021. Through his stories and iconic surrealist cartoons, Helguera reveals how his art conveyed powerful messages without words, leaving a lasting impact on visual art and political commentary.

Helguera: The Stroke Of Congruence

2022