Juan Peláez Movies

In the seventies, Arturo Durazo, a close friend of the president, was asked to stop some arms smugglers.

A series of murders have occurred in the uppermost circles of society. Detective Felipe Fierro vows to solve the killings, or die trying (which is a...

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of...

Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

Horror anthology with three stories all taking place in the same apartment building. The first involves a pair of newlyweds who attempt to hide the...

Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of...

Towards the end of the 1950s, a young homosexual faced life, society, a dominant mother, and a conservative home.

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.

Three part anthology with stories involving a Phantom of the Opera-style killer haunting a theater, four punks who pick the wrong house to rob and a...

"Mod" culture in Mexico City.

Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.

The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed,...

A couple is involved in a seduction game to get out of the monotony of their marriage.

The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom...

A man joins forces with a Vietnam veteran to take revenge on his father, the most powerful drug lord on the border, who he blames for his mother's...