Alfonso Arau

Born: 1932-01-11

Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.


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Coco

as Papá Julio Rivera (voice)
Released: 2017-10-27

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an...

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Romancing the Stone

as Juan
Released: 1984-03-30

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her...

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The Wild Bunch

as Herrera
Released: 1969-06-19

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is...

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¡Three Amigos!

as El Guapo
Released: 1986-12-12

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village...

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Used Cars

as Manuel
Released: 1980-07-11

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to...

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El Topo

as Bandit 1
Released: 1970-12-18

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with...

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Posse

as Pepe
Released: 1975-06-04

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train...

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Walker

as Raousset
Released: 1987-12-04

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in...

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Picking Up the Pieces

as Dr. Amado
Released: 2000-05-26

A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when...

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Committed

as Grampy
Released: 2000-04-28

After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him...

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Scandalous John

as Paco
Released: 1971-06-22

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the...

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Inspector Calzonzin

as Calzonzín
Released: 1974-05-02

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974

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The Dead One

as Tezcatlipoca (voice)
Released: 2007-01-01

Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the...

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Operación carambola

as Capulina's Aid #1
Released: 1968-08-29

Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a...

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Tivoli

as Tiliches
Released: 1975-06-26

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of...

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I Heart Shakey

as Raoul
Released: 2012-06-29

Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious...

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Trip to the Moon

as Carlos Vera
Released: 1958-04-02

In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where...

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Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

as Indio
Released: 1988-11-13

A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this...

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Pedro Paramo

as 'Saltaperico'
Released: 1967-01-26

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his...

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El día que murió Pedro Infante

as Anselmo
Released: 1982-01-01

Mexican feature film

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Drunk Angry Idiot

as Ernesto Pino
Released: 2018-09-21

A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who...

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Paradise

as El Perro
Released: 1970-10-08

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a...

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...And Your Love Too

as Alfredo
Released: 1962-09-27

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a...

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Mojado Power

as Nato Solís
Released: 1981-12-04

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981

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Aunt Isabel's Garden

as uncredited
Released: 1972-04-05

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through...

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Run, Cougar, Run

as Etio
Released: 1972-10-18

In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human...

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New faces

as uncredited
Released: 1956-01-01

Mexican feature film

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Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa

as uncredited
Released: 1970-05-06

"Mod" culture in Mexico City.

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El aviso inoportuno

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-17

The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and...

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Stones for Ibarra

as Chuy Santos
Released: 1988-01-29

A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings...

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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

as uncredited
Released: 1970-09-15

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

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El rincón de las vírgenes

as Lucas Lucatero
Released: 1972-11-30

"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.

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Tres amigos

as uncredited
Released: 1970-02-12

Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's...

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El águila descalza

as Poncho / Jonathan Eaglepass / Mascalzzone
Released: 1971-12-08

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with...

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There Are No Thieves in This Village

as Agente viajero
Released: 1965-09-09

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the...

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Camino largo a Tijuana

as uncredited
Released: 1991-02-28

Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug...

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Polvora En La Piel

as uncredited
Released: 1992-09-17

Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. Roxana Chavez is a young girl who's flirting with...

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Miami Vice

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-16

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...

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227

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-14

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington,...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Chuy Santos
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Gunsmoke

as Mando
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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