Gabriel Retes
José Ignacio Gabriel Jorge Retes Balzaretti (March 25th, 1947 – April 20th, 2020) was a Mexican film director, writer, producer, and actor.
His 1977 film Paper Flowers was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1979 film Broken Flag was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1999 film A Sweet Scent of Death was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.696 |
| Birthday | 1947-03-25 |
| Place of Birth | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| Also Known As | José Ignacio Gabriel Jorge Retes Balzaretti , |
1977
Lo mejor de Teresa
6.2/5
Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.
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Lo mejor de Teresa
1981
Everyone's Hell so Feared
5.5/8
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of...
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
1975
Omen
4.7/9
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From...
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Omen
1983
Deceitful Appearances
4.4/9
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial...
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Deceitful Appearances
1975
The Living Forces
5.3/6
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revoluti...
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The Living Forces
1971
They Call Him Marcado
4.4/8
The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to...
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They Call Him Marcado
1995
Bienvenido-Welcome
6.5/9
During a business trip a married man has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message "Welcome to the world of Aids"
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Bienvenido-Welcome
1979
The Perfect Woman
5/2
Marcela, a former film star, seeks tranquility in the suburbs after marrying a wealthy industrialist. Her past haunts her with admirers and daily viol...
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The Perfect Woman
1998
Coup at Daybreak
6.6/9
The film follows the events of the night of February 4, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela. That night a group of military rebels staged a coup d'etat. Venezu...
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Coup at Daybreak
2008
House Arrest
5/5
Because of a millionaire fraud, a man is condemned to house arrest, and the only place where he can serve sentence is his mother’s house, affected wit...
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House Arrest
1972
End of the Party
5/5
A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
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End of the Party
2014
Puerto Padre
6.2/5
As a teenage orphan from Chira Island searches for his godfather on the mainland, his innocent memory of childhood is gradually replaced by an unsettl...
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Puerto Padre
2018
El viaje de Keta
5/3
Keta is a professional makeup artist with a big butt and large thighs, but she also has big dreams. The truth is that Keta with her overweight, her a...
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El viaje de Keta
2010
Borrar de la Memoria
6.3/6
A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threaten...
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Borrar de la Memoria
2013
Almost Thirty
3.6/21
Hilarious romantic comedy which main essence is based on the maturation process that young people face when entering their thirties. When their option...
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Almost Thirty
2006
Mujeres en el acto
5/2
These women think, due to her social position, that they live in a “bubble of soap”. Nevertheless, when this mirage explodes, they remain in the air,...
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Mujeres en el acto
1992
El Bulto
6.5/19
After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs...
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El Bulto
1998
Under California: The Limit of Time
5.9/9
Damian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After Damian accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks aton...
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Under California: The Limit of Time
1999
The Comet
5.7/7
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a s...
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The Comet
2001
Green Stones
5.7/3
Mariana is the adopted daughter of a businessman. When her father dies she searches for an stolen car while looking for her own identity.
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Green Stones
1970
Cristo 70
5.6/5
Running from the law, young crooks hole up in a small town... and get hooked into performing in the town's Passion Play.
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Cristo 70
2016
Given In Love
5/2
A romance between the painters and writers: Dr. Atl and Nahui Olin arises in this era, the 20's, while Jose Vasconcelos founded the Ministry of Educat...
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Given In Love
1974
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
5.5/4
Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he te...
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The Encounter of a Lonely Man
2004
Caribe
6/10
Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail k...
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Caribe
1991
Futuro sangriento
5/2
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Futuro sangriento
1971
El cielo y tú
4.5/4
Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
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El cielo y tú
1972
Triángulo
5.6/7
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
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Triángulo
1989
The Naked City
6.5/7
A gritty tale of survival set against a city ripe with violence and corruption. The Naked City tells the tale of Alfonso and Aurelia, who with their i...
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The Naked City
1972
Los cacos
5.8/4
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
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Los cacos
1971
Juegos de alcoba
4.2/5
Anthology movie -- three anecdotes relating to liberated, post-sixties, sexual behavior. Swinging couples, hippie-style free-love, etc...
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Juegos de alcoba
2017
Cómo Filmar Una XXX
6.1/20
Ulises Alpuyeca, a film initiate, wants to make his debut feature and he accepts the first opportunity offered to him to direct a film, without knowi...
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Cómo Filmar Una XXX
1975
The Cornered Beast
5.3/7
A man who pretends to be a Dutch immigrant, is discovered by the Israelite Secret Service that he is a German Nazi War Criminal who escaped to Mexico.
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The Cornered Beast
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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Paper Flowers
1973
The Cubs
5/10
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
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The Cubs
2020
Taken Identity
4.6/5
Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Gu...
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Taken Identity
1971
Ya somos hombres
4.6/5
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Ya somos hombres
2020
Vile
7/1
After a life full of guilt for having been an executioner, Abel Carbajal receives a visit from Ángela, a young woman seeking revenge against him. Unkn...
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Vile
1975
Letters from Marusia
5.3/13
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 ess...
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Letters from Marusia
1980
At a Lame Pace
4.5/6
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
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