Alfonso Arau
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.396 |
| Birthday | 1932-01-11 |
| Place of Birth | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| Also Known As | Альфонсо Арау, Alfonso Aráu, |
1962
...And Your Love Too
5.2/4
On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.
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...And Your Love Too
1986
¡Three Amigos!
6.305/976
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
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¡Three Amigos!
2000
Picking Up the Pieces
4.4/88
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband...
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Picking Up the Pieces
1984
Romancing the Stone
6.8/1801
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of...
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Romancing the Stone
1970
El Topo
7.1/584
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems...
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El Topo
1970
Paradise
5.7/6
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
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Paradise
1975
Posse
5.9/64
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
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Posse
1970
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
5.6/5
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.
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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
1974
Inspector Calzonzin
7.5/17
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
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Inspector Calzonzin
1982
El día que murió Pedro Infante
4.2/4
Mexican feature film
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El día que murió Pedro Infante
1971
Scandalous John
6.3/6
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
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Scandalous John
1958
Trip to the Moon
5.8/13
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of the...
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Trip to the Moon
2012
I Heart Shakey
3.4/9
Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving...
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I Heart Shakey
2005
Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
7.5/6
"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Simplemente, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the greatest comdedian-actors in the history of Mexican Cinema. He beg...
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Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
1991
Camino largo a Tijuana
5/2
Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daught...
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Camino largo a Tijuana
1965
There Are No Thieves in This Village
5.3/7
When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...
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There Are No Thieves in This Village
1969
The Wild Bunch
7.593/1180
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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The Wild Bunch
2007
The Dead One
5/30
Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger battl...
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The Dead One
1988
Stones for Ibarra
0/0
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of...
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Stones for Ibarra
1988
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
3/2
A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
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Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1956
New faces
5/2
Mexican feature film
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New faces
1972
El rincón de las vírgenes
5.4/18
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
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El rincón de las vírgenes
1981
Mojado Power
4/3
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
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Mojado Power
1960
Los pistolocos
5/2
Papa and the butler try to find an acceptable husband for daddy's spoiled little girl.
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Los pistolocos
2000
Committed
4.8/55
After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is disc...
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Committed
1980
Used Cars
6.4/243
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the...
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Used Cars
1971
El águila descalza
5.5/4
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexic...
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El águila descalza
2018
Drunk Angry Idiot
5.4/21
A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who always gets drunk.
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Drunk Angry Idiot
1968
Operación carambola
6.5/34
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
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Operación carambola
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.3/6
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
1969
El aviso inoportuno
7.9/18
The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Na...
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El aviso inoportuno
1972
Aunt Isabel's Garden
5.6/9
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
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Aunt Isabel's Garden
1967
Pedro Paramo
7/18
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned a...
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Pedro Paramo
1972
Run, Cougar, Run
5.9/8
In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter kills her mate.
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Run, Cougar, Run
1970
Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa
5/3
"Mod" culture in Mexico City.
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Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa
2017
Coco
8.209/19473
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desp...
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Coco
1975
Tivoli
7/21
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
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Tivoli
1987
Walker
6.3/71
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
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Walker
1970
Tres amigos
5.5/4
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
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Tres amigos
1992
Polvora En La Piel
5/2
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. Roxana Chavez is a young girl who's flirting with death, trapped in a dangerous liaison with boss Fernando...
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