Ignacio Retes
José Ignacio Retes Guevara was a Mexican playwright, film, theater and television actor, director, and writer. Two-time winner of the Ariel Award. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the 30s, where he was able to meet other prominent playwrights and directors of the time such as Rodolfo Usigli, Seki Sano and José Revueltas. He founded the University Theater of San Luis Potosí in 1937 and the theater company Lantern Magic with workers from the Mexican Union of Electricians. With Usigli he founded the company Midnight Theater (in reference to the free time that both had to collaborate in it); with Sano he would work as an assistant. In 1950 he made his directorial debut with "Los cuadrantes de la soledad" by José Revueltas, which reached 100 performances. Said montage also featured scenography designed by Diego Rivera. In 1944 he wrote his first play, "El día de Mañana". As a film actor, he made his debut in the 1950s and was directed by directors such as Jorge Fons, Felipe Cazals, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Sergio Olhovich and Arturo Ripstein. In his role as a screenwriter, he wrote the scripts for films such as Anguish Nights and Journey to Paradise, among others. He was also a public official, as director of the theaters of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), where he promoted the massive construction of public theaters, reaching 38 venues. In the 1960s he collaborated closely with the writer Vicente Leñero, with whom he made various works such as the theatrical version of Los albañiles and Los Niños de Sánchez, among others. The Hidalgo-Ignacio Retes Theater in Mexico City has been named after the actor since 2006 His son, Gabriel Retes, became a prominent actor, director and writer.
El tahúr
as uncreditedThree childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of...
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El rey de la vecindad
as Don MatíasSentimental comedy about ups and downs in a working-class neighborhood.
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Mariana Mariana
as PsychiatristThe story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best...
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If I Never See You Again
as PonchoFive elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns...
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The Realm of Fortune
as Don GilPoor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that...
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Oficio de tinieblas
as Don Alfonso"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama...
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The Big Dead Dog
as ArmendarizIn a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins...
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
as Don Gregorio, Esmeralda's fatherThe husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested...
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The Year of the Plague
as Dr. Mario ZermeñoA terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he...
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A Married Woman
as Papá de IreneIrene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and...
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Cuartelazo
as Coronel RebeldeNarration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten,...
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The Eve
as Rubén RochaAging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one...
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Everyone's Hell so Feared
as Dr. MoralesThe inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and...
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La casta divina
as Don EmilioChronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people...
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Motel
as Cordova, PadrinoThe discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
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Doña Perfecta
as JacintitoLiberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there,...
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Deceitful Appearances
as Tío AlbertoThe sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to...
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Chin Chin el teporocho
as uncreditedRogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love...
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Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
as Nacho EsquivelStreet-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
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Mundo mágico
as uncreditedAnthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
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Aunt Alejandra
as DoctorThe arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of...
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Amor a la medida
as uncreditedPop musician lives out a situation in which he throws over a good woman for a bad woman and then...
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New World
as Don Diego de AlbaTowards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a...
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Broken Flag
as ErnestoWhen a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous...
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Three of Cups
as Felipe MartínezWhile touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
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The flying pony
as uncreditedMythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the...
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El reventón
as uncreditedWild-partying hippie-artist-dilettantes end up forming a revolutionary terrorist cell. The...
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The Hard Years
as uncreditedThree boys, after participating in the events of 1968 in Mexico, find themselves in the need to...
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Lovers, Partners & Spies
as PriestRetired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to...
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Knock Out
as Old man in the buildingRodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is...
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Vintage Model
as BasilioLife unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just...
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Encuentro Inesperado
as Ignacio TorresPilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The...
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Bienvenido-Welcome
as ProducerDuring a business trip a married man has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message...
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Hard Years: The birth of a guerrilla fighter
as El doctorThe lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60’s....
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The Castaways of Liguria
as Emilio AlbaniA fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century,...
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Paper Flowers
as ChinaOn the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members...
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Los Naúfragos II: Los Piratas
as Emilio AlbaniThe Cast Aways saga continues as the shipwrecked islanders discover a cave full of buried...
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Playa azul
as MatíasA politician accused of fraud seeks refuge in a remote, hotel he owns. Joined by his wife, and...
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La vida tiene tres días
as Tomás, carteroBig-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
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