Screenplay: Carlos Velo

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


Roots

1953 · Movie · 103 min. · Mexico

Direction Benito Alazraki

Cast Beatriz Flores · Juan de la Cruz · Conchita Montes · Olimpia Alazraki

Plot Mexican and Latin-American classic. Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas, Nuestra Señora, El Tuerto and La Potranca....

7.4

65 votes

7.4

65 votes

Torero

1956 · Documentary · 75 min. · Mexico

Direction Carlos Velo

Cast Luis Procuna · Consuelo Procuna · Ángel Procuna · Antonio Sevilia

Plot The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession.

6.6

61 votes

6.6

61 votes

Almadrabas (S)

1934 · Documentary · 21 min. · Spain

6.3

42 votes

6.3

42 votes

Pedro Páramo

1967 · Movie · 104 min. · Mexico

Direction Carlos Velo

Cast John Gavin · Ignacio López Tarso · Pilar Pellicer · Julissa

Plot Juan Preciado, a peasant and Pedro Páramo’s son, infulfillment of the last will of his mother, arrived on foot toComala looking for his father. During his journey, another man hadjoined...

6.2

228 votes

6.2

228 votes

La ciudad y el campo (S)

1934 · Documentary · 10 min. · Spain

5.6

29 votes

5.6

29 votes

Alguien nos quiere matar

1970 · Movie · 85 min. · Mexico

Direction Carlos Velo

Cast Angélica María · Lilia Aragón · Guillermo Argüelles · Alejandro Aura

Plot A grandmother trains her granddaughter to carry out a strange revenge.

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Don Juan 67

1966 · Movie · 83 min. · Mexico

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El medio pelo

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · Mexico

Direction Carlos Velo

Cast Amparo Rivelles · Manuel López Ochoa · Enrique Rambal · Fernando Luján

Plot A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class and dignity. Also, their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected...

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Felipe II y El Escorial (S)

1935 · Documentary · 18 min. · Spain

Direction Fernando G. Mantilla · Carlos Velo

Plot Short documentary about the construction of the monastery of El Escorial (Madrid, Spain). It shows the art works and treasures contained between its walls.

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5 of chocolate and one of strawberry

1968 · Movie · 85 min. · Mexico

Direction Carlos Velo

Cast Angélica María · Fernando Luján · Enrique Rambal · Roberto Cañedo

Plot Esperanza (Angelica Maria) is a young novice living in a quiet convent full of old nuns. After eating some "special" mushrooms, innocent Esperanza becomes modern and psychodelic Brenda: a subversive...

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