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Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was a Mexican cinematographer who worked both in Mexican cinema and Hollywood. His mother died after giving birth to him. His father, unable to cope with the loss of his wife, left Gabriel and his brother Roberto to be cared for by their aunts. He studied painting at the Academia de San Carlos, and at the age of 16 he became interested in photography thanks to José Guadalupe Velasco. He later befriended other photographers, such as Gilberto Martínez Solares and Raúl Martínez Solares, and these three would then move on to cinematography. Figueroa made his entry in the movie industry in 1932 as a photographer of stills for the film Revolución of Miguel Contreras Torres. He was later one of the 20 cinematographers hired for the Howard Hawks film Viva Villa!. After a few jobs he obtained a scholarship to study in the United States where the established director of photography Gregg Toland taught Figueroa. Back in Mexico, his first film was Fernando de Fuentes's Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936) which would become one of the most popular films in Mexico and Latin America, and gave him his first award at the Venice Film Festival. He filmed 235 movies over 50 years, including Los Olvidados by Luis Buñuel, The Night of the Iguana by John Huston, The Fugitive by John Ford, and Río Escondido by Emilio Fernández. One of his main collaborators was Fernández, with whom he shot twenty films, some of which won prizes at the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, and the Berlin Film Festival. After collaborating with Fernández and Buñuel on their films with such actors as Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, María Félix, Jorge Negrete, Columba Domínguez, and Silvia Pinal, Figueroa has come to be regarded one of the most influential cinematographers active in México.
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16 September 1939
A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
22 May 1941
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas.
06 October 1966
Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.
22 June 1970
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
09 April 1941
A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
22 October 1941
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours.
17 October 1946
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
01 January 1971
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times.
07 November 1937
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
02 March 1970
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for.
01 June 1940
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory.
18 February 1950
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
09 December 1950
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
27 October 1968
Mexican experimental feature film, made for the 1968 olympics.
15 March 1984
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
05 September 1960
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
03 November 1961
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens.
16 May 1962
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
22 August 1968
Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband.
03 May 1967
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers.
11 November 1947
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
31 August 1967
Cops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship.
12 March 1943
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze.
29 August 1968
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
29 July 1971
Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
09 June 1960
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death.
20 January 1939
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
07 April 1971
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher.
18 November 1943
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician.
04 June 1959
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
11 December 1942
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
26 May 1977
Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms.
27 August 1965
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column.
30 April 1970
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others.
20 June 1984
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939.
20 January 1944
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study.
09 July 1953
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
18 January 1952
Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.
18 January 1968
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers.
20 January 1954
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
26 January 1967
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inher�
01 June 1967
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
07 October 1936
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time.
05 December 1959
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair.
27 August 1942
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios.
29 June 1955
Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
29 October 1981
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
03 July 1984
Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.
09 October 1957
The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
30 April 1969
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
02 September 1953
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend.
03 June 1976
The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.
16 June 1978
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s.
25 December 1946
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City.
07 August 1960
Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums.
