Yirah Aparicio Movies
- 1992
This feature-length production is billed as "a cinematographer's sketchbook" focused on images of modern Mexico. The director in question previously made a highly regarded short film entitled Formula Secreta. Without significant amounts of verbiage, the film links images in a surprisingly meaningful and involving manner, resulting in visual puns, little slices of life, expositions of ideas and political statements and a host of other accomplishments. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hugo Stiglitz, Yirah Aparicio, (more)
The Spanish-language comedy Los Gatos de las Azoteas concerns a man who spends his free time spying on his neighbors who lie in a building across the street. His interest grows as he learns how various people in the building are having sexual affairs with each other, often while cheating on other people who also live in the building. When one of the young women who work in the building becomes the victim of a kidnapping, the voyeur must share the knowledge he has. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Rafael Inclan stars again as Mofles in this comedy sequel to Mofles Y Los Mecanicos. Mofles and his garage mechanic buddies engage in drinking and alcoholic revelry. As is the case with many sequels, this fails to live up to the quality of the initial feature. The groups Generation 2000 and Los Infieles provide music in the routine club scenes. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rafael Inclán, Manuel "Flaco" Ibanez, (more)
In this wild and uninhibited comedy from Mexico, Armando (Cesar Bono), Tun Tun (Rene Ruiz), and Roberto (Alfonso Zayas) are three friends with more bluster than brains who pilot boats off the coast of Acapulco when they're not busy chasing the ladies. The three sailors find themselves in deep trouble when their friend Rosario (Rosario Escobar) picks up a suitcase for them -- it turns out the bag actually belongs to a gang of mob-connected drug dealers and is filled with money. When the pilots lose the cash, they have no choice but to outrun the crooks. Armando, Tun Tun, and Roberto hit the road for Mexico City, where they try to scrape together a living while staying on the lam. It isn't long before the mobsters are hot on their trail, but the boys are also trying to avoid the law when they discover the women who've been letting them stay at their home are actually hookers. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1987
Two men tempt fate and risk losing relationships with their women in this uneven low-budget comedy. The men incur the feminine wrath of their partners when they spend their time drinking, bowling, and flirting with floozies. The women retaliate by going out on the town to make the men jealous. The film title is taken from a popular song performed by Franco and Emmanuel. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roberto "Flaco" Guzman, Jorge Luke, (more)
- 1987
This film came into existence because the screenwriter and director won a 1983 screenplay-writing competition. In the story, a family of eight "Chilangos" are vacationing in the Mexican countryside. "Chilangos" are long-time residents of Mexico City, and they are famed for having loud, quarrelsome, demanding and generally obnoxious behavior when outside their city, similar to the reputation of New Yorkers off their home turf. Quite soon during their vacation, a group of revolutionaries have stolen the family's money, and they are thrown on the mercy of police, politicians, and celebrities looking for opportunities to gain some publicity. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- José Carlos Ruiz, María Rojo, (more)
The mystery-comedy El Dia de los Albaniles 3 features Alfonso Zayas as a horny laborer who is employed rebuilding structures after an earthquake. His woman-chasing habits are curtailed when his wife gets a job at the same location. When the wife disappears, the man suspects something terrible might have happened to her and begins an investigation. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1986
In this sex comedy, Beatriz (Angelica Chain) is married to Roberto (Alfonso Zayas), though theirs is not a union made in heaven. Roberto is always on the lookout for an attractive woman, which causes the expected problems in his marriage. Adding a strange undertone of the macabre is a story about a psycho on the loose who goes after hookers. Adding another layer of confusion is Beatriz' sister Juliet (Chain again), who looks just like her except for her hair color, though none of the other characters seem to notice any resemblance. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfonso Zayas, Angélica Chaín, (more)
- 1986
This is a low-budget, low-brow comedy about people who have the misfortune of working in a hospital, though not as much misfortune as the patients. The doctors are universally incompetent, none of the nurses have been able to find a uniform that was not a tad too small, gangsters wander in and out of the premises, and misfits make up the corps of ambulance drivers, and sometimes, patients as well. The storyline is put together as a series of skits that revolve around a threat of foreclosure to the premises. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Susana Dosamantes, Fernando Luján, (more)
A ravishing black woman sends every man around her into a frenzy of heated passion in this film starring Tun Tun and Caesar Bono, and inspired by the popular song of the same name. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
