
Birthday:
10-27-1921
Deathday:
06-07-2007 (85 years)
Birthplace:
Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Biography
Benito Alazraki (27 October 1921 – 6 June 2007) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1955 and 1995. He was the father of advertising executive Carlos Alazraki and grandfather of director Gary Alazraki.
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Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company
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event1962 star_border 5.6
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Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
Roots
Director
event1954 star_border 6.8
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Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow), Nuestra Señora (Our Lady), El Tuerto (One-Eyed) and La Potranca (The Filly). In El Tuerto, a one eyed boy is relentlessly bullied by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.
Enamorada
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event1946 star_border 7.7
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In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
The Curse of the Doll People
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event1961 star_border 6.3
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Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Infierno de almas
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event1960 star_border 5
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Mauricio flees from the police and takes refuge in the apartment of Ivonne, who gives him blood to save his life. Carlos the policeman who is in love with her, finds Mauricio's passport and has the inspector offer 10 thousand pesos to whoever turns him in. Mauricio confesses to Ivonne that he is innocent of the crime, and asks her to marry him.
Los amantes
Director
event1956 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Póker de reinas
Director
event1960 star_border 5
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A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
The gunslingers
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event1962 star_border 5
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The Jiménez brothers and their allies lead an operation to combat a gang of criminals who have the region under a regime of terror. The bloody confrontations begin to produce the first fatalities.
Rebelde Sin Casa
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event1960 star_border 7.3
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Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...
A ritmo de twist
Director
event1962 star_border 5
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Rivalry between two bathing-suit manufacturers -- one run by teenagers and the other by unscrupulous grownups.
El toro negro
Director
event1960 star_border 5
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Novice bullfighter discovers he wasn't cut out for livestock-murdering stardom.
La Casa Que Arde de Noche
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event1985 star_border 5.1
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A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
La ley de las pistolas
Director
event1960 star_border 5
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Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.
La tijera de oro
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event1960 star_border 5.1
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The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out of charge so much trouble.
Love Love Love
Director
event1965 star_border 5
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A film that brings together several stories around love and important personalities (directors, actors, screenwriters, production team), in addition to being directed by the new generation of filmmakers.
Café Colón
Director
event1959 star_border 5
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Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
Where Are Our Children Going?
Director
event1958 star_border 5.3
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One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they think about marriage! Mom and Pop have their own #firstworldproblems.
Ladrones de niños
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event1958 star_border 5.5
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Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Spiritism
Director
event1962 star_border 4.6
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Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
El rey de los taxistas
Director
event1988 star_border 7
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Lorena wife of the taxi driver Juan Camaney , annoyed by his amorous adventures , accepts work as a photographer's model . John is involved in crimes actually committed two guys who take their taxi when he is not . His wife and two friends help him go free but seeing that follows adventurer, marries Lorena photographer and goes abroad . Juan only asks you to send fayuca .
Santo vs. the Zombies
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event1962 star_border 4.5
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Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.
Las hermanas Karambazo
Director
event1960 star_border 5
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Three brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.
Balún Canán
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event1977 star_border 4.8
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Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
De hombre a hombre
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event1961 star_border 4.2
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Priests in a monastery take in a foundling baby. Twenty years later...
Yo hice a Roque III
Director
event1993 star_border 5
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A lazy slob agrees to a fixed boxing match in order to be accepted by his family and friends.
Mundo mágico
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event1983 star_border 4.8
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Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
Tin Tan y las modelos
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event1960 star_border 6.4
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Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.
Amor a balazo limpio
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event1961 star_border 5
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Hired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.
El vestido de novia
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event1959 star_border 5.6
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A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Peligros de juventud
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event1960 star_border 4.5
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Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
La leyenda del tambor
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event1981 star_border 6.1
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In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them.
The Time and the Touch
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event1962 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
El Tigre Negro
Director
event1962 star_border 5
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Two brothers lose their tent to a bandit and become criminals to defeat the one who has ruined them.
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