Cinematography: Gabriel Figueroa

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Young and the Damned

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Alfonso Mejía · Roberto Cobo · Estela Inda · Miguel Inclán

Plot El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of...

8.3

14K votes

8.3

14K votes

The Exterminating Angel

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Silvia Pinal · Enrique Rambal · Jacqueline Andere · José Baviera

Plot High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party. The uncomfortable situation extends far beyond the limits of their patience and survival instincts...

8.1

25K votes

8.1

25K votes

El (This Strange Passion)

1953 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Delia Garcés · Aurora Walker · Carlos Martínez Baena

Plot Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she...

8.0

6K votes

8.0

6K votes

Macario

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · Mexico

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Pina Pellicer · Enrique Lucero · Mario Alberto Rodríguez

Plot Macario is a poor, hungry peasant, with a wife and several children, who sells wood in the town. Fed up with a life full of hardships, Macario longs for a...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

Nazarin

1959 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Francisco Rabal · Marga López · Rita Macedo · Ignacio López Tarso

Plot Indigent village priest, Father Nazario is prepared to completely sacrifice himself in order to show the villagers the radically giving, humble, selfless way of life that he believes is the...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

7.6

8K votes

The Night of the Iguana

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Richard Burton · Deborah Kerr · Ava Gardner · Sue Lyon

Plot When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

Kelly's Heroes

1970 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Brian G. Hutton

Cast Clint Eastwood · Donald Sutherland · Telly Savalas · Don Rickles

Plot Lieutenant Kelly (Clint Eastwood) is an atypical Army man who, while boozing with a captured German general, learns of $16 million worth of gold bars behind enemy lines. Kelly reveals...

7.4

11K votes

7.4

11K votes

La rosa blanca

1961 · Movie · 105 min. · Mexico

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Christiane Martel · Reinhold Olszewski · Rita Macedo

Plot An illiterate Indian (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He...

7.4

80 votes

7.4

80 votes

Soledad's Shawl

1952 · Movie · 108 min. · Mexico

7.4

74 votes

7.4

74 votes

The Paper Man

1963 · Movie · 110 min. · Mexico

Direction Ismael Rodríguez

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Alida Valli · Susana Cabrera · Guillermo Orea

Plot A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into...

7.4

245 votes

7.4

245 votes

7.3

442 votes

Pueblerina

1949 · Movie · 111 min. · Mexico

7.3

119 votes

7.3

119 votes

Días de otoño

1963 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

7.2

73 votes

7.2

73 votes

Enamorada

1946 · Movie · 93 min. · Mexico

Direction Emilio Fernández

Cast María Félix · Pedro Armendáriz · Fernando Fernández · José Morcillo

Plot In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general (Armendáriz) and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls...

7.2

285 votes

7.2

285 votes

Que viva México!

1932 · Movie · 84 min. · Mexico

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Félix Balderas · Martín Hernández · David Liceága · Julio Saldívar

Plot A legendary production plagued by problems almost from the outset, the making of QUE VIVA MEXICO cured Sergei Eisenstein of the desire ever to work in North America again. On...

7.2

825 votes

7.2

825 votes

Let's Go with Pancho Villa

1936 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Fernando de Fuentes

Cast Antonio R. Frausto · Domingo Soler · Manuel Tamés · Ramón Vallarino

Plot The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in...

7.2

229 votes

7.2

229 votes

The Boy and the Fog

1953 · Movie · 111 min. · Mexico

7.1

50 votes

7.1

50 votes

The Pearl

1947 · Movie · 85 min. · Mexico

7.1

379 votes

7.1

379 votes

Ánimas Trujano

1961 · Movie · 104 min. · Mexico

Direction Ismael Rodríguez

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Columba Domínguez · Flor Silvestre · Pepe Romay

Plot Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great...

7.0

236 votes

7.0

236 votes