Ismael Rodríguez Movies

Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.

The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life,...

The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous...

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

Mimí Derba is a documentary about one of the pioneers in acting and film production in México. In 1917, along with photographer Enrique...

Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French...

Not realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guar

An undercover cop and slick con-man form an alliance against a evil and vicious drug lord who takes advantage and uses the poor people of a small...

A South American expedition is in search of fortune thought to be hidden in an Lost Aztec city. While trudging through the jungles the main character...

Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself...

In Becoming Frederick Douglass, acclaimed director Stanley Nelson and co-director Nicole London bring to life the story of an American icon. Using...

A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers.

Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.

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...

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries...

A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both...

A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame

Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them.