Hugo Stiglitz Movies
Hugo Stiglitz was born in Mexico, where he thrived in the 1970s and 1980s as a popular film star. Stiglitz has been most closely associated with horror films like Tintorena and City of the Walking Dead. In the mid-1980s, Hugo Stiglitz began showing up with regularity in English-language films, notably as Sinarquiara in John Huston's Under the Volcano. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
A law abiding policeman who reluctantly enlisted the aid of a local drug cartel after falling into debt is pushed beyond his breaking point in this Mexican crime thriller starring Hugo Stiglitz. Hector Del Velle was a cop who always played by the rules, at least until a debt problem prompted him to seek financial aid from a wealthy group of drug traffickers. But when this ruthless band of criminals strikes too close to home, the cop who always played fair is forced to resort to the kind of underhanded tactics generally employed by only the most notorious law-breakers in the land. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
An honest migrant worker falls for a small-town Mexican beauty, only to find his life turned upside-down when his new love starts flirting with the strongest man in the village in this Spanish-language love triangle starring Hugo Stiglitz. All Lamberto (Stiglitz) wanted was to come to the United States and earn enough money to support his struggling family. When Hugo falls for a beautiful woman while visiting his family back in Mexico, it seems as if his prayers for love have finally been answered. Unfortunately the object of Lamberto's affections is a bit more fiesty than one might think, and it isn't long before her wandering gaze catches the attention of the local Cacique. Now, as tempers flair and romantic longings fly, Lamberto will be forced to face off against a brutal opponent who remains well out of the humble laborers modest weight class. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Hugo Stiglitz stars in this collection of four short stories, each of which illustrates a lesson about the moral and ethical nature of mankind. Leyendas de Durango was released on home video in the United States in its original Spanish language version. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
A powerful criminal determines to bring the battle to his enemies before they bring it to him in this tale of underworld rivalry and revenge among the criminal elite. Upon realizing that a man with his power is bound to incur the envy of his enemies, Ceferino Reyes convinces his son Juan Jose that the pair must launch a pre-emptive war on those who would do them harm in hopes of preventing their rivals from gaining the upper hand. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
A young man with dreams of sailing the open sea soon finds his wildest fantasies becoming reality as he hoists up the Jolly Roger and sets out on a series of swashbuckling adventures in this seafaring tale of danger and excitement. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1972
In the Mexican horror film The Night of the Thousand Cats, the villain of the story is a handsome, wealthy playboy (Hugo Stiglitz) who likes to make love to vast numbers of lovely women. For some reason, once he has had his way with them, he decapitates them, preserves their heads in alcohol, and feeds their bodies to his many cats. He travels out of his mansion in fabulous motorcars, motorcycles and helicopters in pursuit of feminine fulfillment. Eventually the cats choose their own victim. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Here's the classic Daniel Defoe tale as told by a narrating tiger that witnesses castaway Robinson Crusoe's struggles to survive the man-eating cannibals on the tropical island. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hugo Stiglitz
A small boy abandoned in the jungle and raised by a benevolent group of apes slowly begins to realize that he isn't quite like the rest of his primate family in this touching meditation on the bond shared between man and beast. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
In this children's action/adventure movie, a team of Royal Geographical Society scientists, led by professor Fergusson (Hugo Stiglitz) take a balloon trip across Africa in 1862. Along the way, they have adventures with natives, rescue a stranded Englishwoman, and discover a gold mine. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hugo Stiglitz, Jeff Cooper, (more)
The disaster genre gets the exploitation treatment in this gruesome tale of survival at sea from director René Cardona Jr. In the wake of a violent cyclone, the remaining passengers of a downed airplane find refuge on a passing boat carrying the survivors of a shipwreck. Without a clue where in the world they are, a shortage of food and water, and the surrounding waters teeming with man-eating sharks, the tensions are soon on the rise. El Ciclon was released in the U.S. as The Cyclone. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- 1977
- R
The famous story of the rugby team whose plane crashes in the Andes is exploited in this lurid drama that focuses on the fact that the young men were forced to eat their dead companions to survive. For a much more engrossing, sensitive and suspenseful rendering of the true story, watch the 1992 version Alive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Essentially a gory knock-off of Jaws, this watery horror outing follows the exploits of two adventuresome shark hunters vying for the love of several bathing beauties. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1978
Blood is the Red Gold of this film's title. When a sailor arrives on an island dictatorship and is a little too flashy with his money, he is soon robbed of it. He finds himself among the down-and-outers, who sell blood for enough money to survive on. Unable to avoid trouble, the sailor is quickly rounded up and sentenced to work in a salt mine, but he later makes an attempt to escape. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- José M. Sacristán, Isela Vega, (more)
