Screenplay: Luis Alcoriza

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Luis Alcoriza. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Young and the Damned

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

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

Synopsis 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 his friend Pedro, the boy who apparently was responsible for...

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

Synopsis 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 start to arise.

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

Synopsis 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 agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but...

8.0

6K votes

8.0

6K votes

Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Rogelio A. González

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Amparo Rivelles · Elda Peralta · Guillermo Orea

Synopsis A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

7.6

1K votes

7.6

1K votes

The Pearl of Tlayucan

1962 · Movie · 105 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Alcoriza

Cast Julio Aldama · Norma Angélica · Jorge Martínez de Hoyos · Andrés Soler

Synopsis In order to pay for medicine for his sick son, a father in a poor Mexican village steals a valuable pearl from the local church.

7.2

114 votes

7.2

114 votes

The Brute

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · Mexico

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

7.1

62 votes

The Shark Hunters

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Alcoriza

Cast Julio Aldama · Dacia González · Tito Junco · Amanda del Llano

Synopsis Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works on the coast of Tabasco, Mexico. He works hard and sends money to his wife and children that live in Mexico City. He seems very happy in the coast --he even has a...

7.1

152 votes

7.1

152 votes

Always Further On

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Alcoriza

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Jaime Fernández · Aurora Clavel · Eric del Castillo

Synopsis A worker of the Mexican Indigenist Institute tries to help the Tarahumara Indians to protect and keep their lands, but he must face corrupt landowners and politicians.

7.0

78 votes

7.0

78 votes

The River and Death

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Columba Domínguez · Miguel Torruco · Joaquín Cordero · Víctor Alcocer

Synopsis A small town by the shore of a deep, dark river is ruled by death. Its people live by a code of honor that encourages them to take revenge for any form of insult, no matter how insignificant. A seemingly...

6.8

760 votes

6.8

760 votes

The Great Madcap

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Soler · Rosario Granados · Andrés Soler · Rubén Rojo

Synopsis El Gran Calavera a dark comedy directed by Luis Buñuel deals with a family's attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo (Luis Alconira). The family decides to try to fool him into spending less...

6.8

864 votes

6.8

864 votes

Illusion Travels by Streetcar

1954 · Movie · 81 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Lilia Prado · Carlos Navarro · Fernando Soto · Agustín Isunza

Synopsis Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends...

6.7

900 votes

6.7

900 votes

Presage

1974 · Movie · 118 min. · Mexico

6.6

48 votes

6.6

48 votes

Mecanica Nacional (National Mechanics)

1971 · Movie · 104 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Alcoriza

Cast Manolo Fábregas · Lucha Villa · Héctor Suárez · Sara García

Synopsis A wacky comedy tinged with violence, MECANICA NACIONAL centers around an important car race. As aficionados drive in from all over the country, the highways become more dangerous and chaotic than the racetrack itself. Massive gridlock, reminiscent of that in...

6.6

194 votes

6.6

194 votes

6.4

29 votes

6.4

39 votes

Daughter of Deceit

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · Mexico

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Soler · Alicia Caro · Fernando Soto · Rubén Rojo

Synopsis A small-time businessman with perennially misfiring schemes dodges the constant nagging of his wife through his frequent travelling; however, when one night his train is delayed on account of a landslide, he returns home to find the latter in the...

6.4

657 votes

6.4

657 votes

La vida no vale nada

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · Mexico

6.3

36 votes

6.3

36 votes

6.3

1K votes

Escuela de rateros

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · Mexico

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 votes