Ignacio Retes Trailers
A Sweet Scent of Death TrailerIf I Never See You Again TrailerEsmeralda Comes by Night Trailer
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.
Most Popular Ignacio Retes Trailers
Total trailers found: 49
01 September 1955
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
18 November 1997
Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience.
05 August 1987
The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana).
29 April 1993
Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The journey has been long and Pilar wants to rest.
10 August 1978
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion.
31 July 1986
The Cast Aways saga continues as the shipwrecked islanders discover a cave full of buried treasures, along with the bones of Pirates.
07 October 1982
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet.
18 December 1985
Sentimental comedy about ups and downs in a working-class neighborhood.
08 September 1985
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
24 March 1983
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
10 October 1951
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living.
01 January 1985
Mexican feature film
21 June 1979
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins.
01 February 1978
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them.
28 February 1980
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
17 August 1988
Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.
15 August 1976
Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
15 May 1986
Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
01 January 1987
Mexican feature film
01 November 1979
Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues.
04 January 1986
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
01 March 1984
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
29 August 1947
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
04 September 1992
Life unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live.
23 February 1984
Mexican feature film
15 August 1985
A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea.
20 August 1981
In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins to dt
09 September 1981
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
29 March 1984
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
01 January 1992
A politician accused of fraud seeks refuge in a remote, hotel he owns. Joined by his wife, and children he requests aid from his friends.
01 January 1973
Three boys, after participating in the events of 1968 in Mexico, find themselves in the need to get e
04 June 1981
Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform.
19 November 1993
Pop musician lives out a situation in which he throws over a good woman for a bad woman and then discovers the terrible secrets of her checkered past.
17 November 1977
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ".
13 December 1999
Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. One morning, he discovers her corpse among the oat fields
11 November 1982
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night.
12 February 1978
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature.
29 December 1983
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
28 November 1986
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
17 August 1995
During a business trip, a married man (José) has an affair with a blonde who leaves him the message "Welcome to the world of AIDS".
03 November 1989
A gritty tale of survival set against a city ripe with violence and corruption. The Naked City tells the tale of Alfonso and Aurelia, who with their infant daughter flee the scene of a traffic accident they inadvertently caused, leaving several people seriously injured.
03 February 1977
Wild-partying hippie-artist-dilettantes end up forming a revolutionary terrorist cell. The misfit Gato loses a lot of money in bets and his father throws him out of his house.
30 August 1989
The lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60’s. Some years later, the friends meet again.
05 September 1997
The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.
04 May 1977
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I.
12 July 1951
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class.
28 January 1982
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree.
