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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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02 October 1953
Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families.
23 November 1950
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides.
10 August 1951
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime.
16 September 1939
A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
06 October 1966
Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.
09 April 1941
A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
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.
30 September 1948
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders.
06 October 1936
A 1936 film.
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.
01 January 1971
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times.
25 February 1949
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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.
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.
02 June 1950
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager.
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.
25 December 1963
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
18 February 1950
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
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.
27 October 1968
Mexican experimental feature film, made for the 1968 olympics.
22 June 1970
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
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.
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.
12 September 1959
Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.
31 August 1967
Cops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship.
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.
13 November 1952
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
20 January 1939
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
30 November 1945
Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.
05 September 1952
Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he works.
11 September 1941
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
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.
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.
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.
03 December 1973
The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.
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.
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.
02 September 1953
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend.
18 May 1945
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
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.
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.
03 July 1984
Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.
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.
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.
06 August 1964
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
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.
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.
15 August 1974
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge.
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.
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.
