Felipe Cazals — Director (14)
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Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell (1965)
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Felipe Cazals
other title: Leonora Carrington o el sortilegio irónico
Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
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Luz's Motives (1986)
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Felipe Cazals actor: Patricia Reyes Spíndola / Delia Casanova …
other title: Los Motivos de Luz / Los motivos de Luz
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
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The Heist (1976)
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Felipe Cazals actor: Manuel Ojeda / Salvador Sánchez …
other title: El Apando / El apando …
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
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Canoa (1976)
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费利佩·卡扎尔斯 actor: Arturo Alegro / Julio Alejandro …
other title: 卡诺亚罪犯 / 卡诺亚 …
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.