Direction: Alfonso Arau
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Alfonso Arau. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Like Water for Chocolate
1992 · Movie · 105 min. · Mexico
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Marco Leonardi · Lumi Cavazos · Regina Torné · Ada Carrasco
Plot The passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro instead marries her sister, Tita...
6.9
30K votes
6.9
30K votes
Calzonzin Inspector
1974 · Movie · 90 min. · Mexico
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Alfonso Arau · Pancho Córdova · Virma González · Héctor Ortega
6.4
36 votes
6.4
36 votes
L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo
2010 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast María Grazia Cucinotta · Anne Parillaud · Primo Reggiani · Geraldine Chaplin
Plot Year 1905. The cinematograph has reached Southern Italy, and casts fear among the people to whom it seems a devilish trick. They call it "o 'imbroglie din t'o lenzuolo" -...
5.8
25 votes
5.8
25 votes
A Walk in the Clouds
1995 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Keanu Reeves · Aitana Sánchez-Gijón · Anthony Quinn · Giancarlo Giannini
Plot A young soldier, returning to Californias wine country following WWII, discovers he no longer loves his wife. He befriends a pregnant girl on a bus and fatefully agrees to pose...
5.5
14K votes
5.5
14K votes
The Magnificent Ambersons (TV)
2002 · Movie · 167 min. · United States
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Madeleine Stowe · Bruce Greenwood · Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Gretchen Mol
5.4
101 votes
5.4
101 votes
Picking Up the Pieces
2000 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Woody Allen · Sharon Stone · David Schwimmer · María Grazia Cucinotta
Plot Finding out that his wife has been cheating on him, a butcher named Tex murders his wife in a fit of fury. To get rid of the body, he decides...
5.0
3K votes
5.0
3K votes
Zapata: El sueño del héroe
2004 · Movie · 101 min. · Mexico
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Alejandro Fernández · Lucero · Patricia Velasquez · Jaime Camil
Plot A look at the life of Mexican Revolution Hero Emiliano Zapata.
3.1
204 votes
3.1
204 votes
The barefoot eagle
1971 · Movie · 90 min. · Mexico
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Alfonso Arau · Ofelia Medina · Christa Linder · José Gálvez
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A Painted House (TV)
2003 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Scott Glenn · Logan Lerman · Arija Bareikis · Robert Sean Leonard
Plot A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams...
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Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
1985 · Movie · 90 min. · Mexico
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Mario Almada · Fernando Arau · Gabriela Roel · Ademar Arau
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Mojado power
1979 · Movie · 108 min. · Mexico
Direction Alfonso Arau
Cast Alfonso Arau · Blanca Guerra · Pedro Damián · Nono Arsu
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