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

Synopsis 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 throws herself into her cooking – and discovers she can...

6.9

30K votes

6.9

30K votes

Calzonzin Inspector

1974 · Movie · 90 min. · Mexico

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

Synopsis 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" - "The Trick in the Sheet", as white sheets were used...

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

Synopsis 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 as her husband to help her avoid her vineyard-owner fathers...

5.5

14K votes

5.5

14K votes

Picking Up the Pieces

2000 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Alfonso Arau

Cast Woody Allen · Sharon Stone · David Schwimmer · María Grazia Cucinotta

Synopsis 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 to cut it into pieces and bury it in the...

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

Synopsis 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

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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

Synopsis 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 of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough...

Not rated

Not rated

Not rated

Mojado power

1979 · Movie · 108 min. · Mexico

Not rated

Not rated