Juan Ángel Martínez
Born in Mexico City in 1939, died there in 1984. He married journalist Marta de la Lama in 1976. He was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Actor in 1982 (Noche de Carnaval), 1985 (Luna de Sangre)
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.008 |
Birthday | 1939-07-19 |
Place of Birth | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
Also Known As |
1981
El mil usos
6.9/12
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds...
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El mil usos
1981
The Sowing of Others
0/0
Short film. Unknown plot.
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The Sowing of Others
1973
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
5.8/12
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 Mexica...
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
1984
Nosotros los pelados
7.8/13
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
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Nosotros los pelados
1985
Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
6/4
Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of own...
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Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
1983
Viva el chubasco
4.6/5
The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike...
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Viva el chubasco
1986
El otro
4.4/8
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
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El otro
1988
El gran relajo mexicano
5/2
Mexican feature film
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El gran relajo mexicano
1984
Motel
4.9/7
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
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Motel
1975
Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
6.8/9
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells th...
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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
1984
Luna de sangre
6/5
Mexican feature film
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Luna de sangre
1975
Esa mi Irene
0/0
A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
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Esa mi Irene
1976
Juan Armenta, the repatriated
5.6/5
Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
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Juan Armenta, the repatriated
1986
Frida Still Life
5.2/12
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a resu...
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Frida Still Life
1976
Espejismo de la ciudad
5/2
Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
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Espejismo de la ciudad
1974
The Holy Inquisition
5.875/16
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be i...
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The Holy Inquisition
1984
Noche de carnaval
6.6/5
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Noche de carnaval
1974
Apuntes
5/2
Mexican feature film
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Apuntes
1982
El día que murió Pedro Infante
4.2/4
Mexican feature film
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El día que murió Pedro Infante
1976
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
5.3/9
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother a...
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1974
La muerte de Pancho Villa
5/4
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
1984
Under the Volcano
6.539/90
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a...
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Under the Volcano
1976
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
7.764/74
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...
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
1970
El Quelite
4.9/6
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his...
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El Quelite
1976
Longitud de Guerra
5.2/5
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the...
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Longitud de Guerra
1977
The Black Widow
7/22
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
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The Black Widow
1977
Los de abajo
6.3/7
In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolut...
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Los de abajo
1977
El elegido
6.3/7
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
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El elegido
1979
Anacrusa
5.4/5
The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not in...
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Anacrusa
1975
El albañil
5.5/6
Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
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El albañil
1978
New World
5.9/7
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous peop...
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New World
1986
Contrabando y muerte
5/4
A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
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Contrabando y muerte
1988
Domingo Corrales
5/3
Son looks for his father's murderer.
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Domingo Corrales
1979
Broken Flag
6.4/8
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic pla...
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Broken Flag
1972
El vals sin fin
5.3/3
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El vals sin fin
1975
The Coming of the King Olmos
6/5
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest...
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The Coming of the King Olmos
1978
Paper Flowers
3.8/6
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot a...
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