Luis Alcoriza Movies

Venice Film Festival 1948

A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town."...

Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their...

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In...

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an...

Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.

A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his ​​family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when...

Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.

Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband,...

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a...

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities...

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a...

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.