Oscar Fentanes Movies
- 1996
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The Spanish language comedy Las Calenturas de Juan Camaney 3 serves up murder and other shenanigans going on at a hotel. The employees must contend with a variety of comely ladies, often attempting to become something more than staff to those guests. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
The Spanish language thriller Noche de Panico transpires during a serious drought. As water becomes more and more scarce, people start dying. That is when people start killing each other for the precious fluid. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mario Almada, Hugo Stiglitz, (more)
The goofy, madcap superhero comedy Metiche y Encajaso - the first episode in a long-running Mexican franchise - follows the adventures of inept superheroes Mole and Chile. The men hit the streets to fight crime in their colorful talking automobile, Chilaquil, and take on the villain La Mujer de Negro. Charly Valentino and Luis de Alba co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Luis de Alba, Charly Valentino, (more)
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)
- 1987
Paco (Otto Sirgo) is a degenerate gambler in need of fast cash in this uneven, slapstick sex comedy. He conspires to marry women and collect on the insurance money after he kills them. Paco soon gives up his self delusion of being a modern-day Bluebeard after botching several murders. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Otto Sirgo, Sasha Montenegro, (more)
- 1987
The mere fact of a marijuana plantation in the Mexican state of Chihuahua might not be enough to upset many, and many factors contribute to escalating lawlessness of the gangsters who cultivate and sell the drug. The plantation in question was much too large for the Mexican authorities to ignore even if they wanted to, and in 1984 it was raided. What they discovered there was much more chilling than fields of the illegal herb and a bunch of gangsters: nearly five thousand poor persons worked there as slave laborers, after having been lured to the plantation with promises of high wages for picking apples. This is one of two docudramas which were made about the incident. The story concerns a man whose efforts to support his family through working illegally in the U.S. were thwarted by thieves who stole his mail. When he discovers this after being deported, he responds to the promise of high wages for apple-picking and winds up being a slave laborer. In addition to the dramatic reenactment of events, this docudrama also includes footage of the actual raid on the plantation and interviews with survivors, which the actors then comment on. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mario Almada, Narciso Busquets, (more)
This routine disaster melodrama is based on the actual earthquake that occurred in Mexico City on September 19th, 1985. Paty (Diana Golden) is an unwed expectant mother who has been discarded by her idiotic boyfriend Miguel (Miguel Angel Rodriguez). She is taken to the hospital just before the calamity, which causes the shaken shirker Miguel to realize he does love Paty after all. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Mario Almada, (more)
"Lalo el Mimo" or Eduardo de la Peña stars in this unusual comedy as a lottery ticket winner. Instead of investing in stocks or huge houses, Rafael Lara (the character el Mimo plays) has set up four of his friends in auto repair businesses. In addition to that, though, he has a fondness for the ladies, and can't seem to stop marrying them. Before long, he has four wives and four separate (and very elegant) homes for them. Eventually the authorities get wind of these illegal goings on (one wife per customer, please) and put him in jail. However, he has fulfilled the secret dreams of many of those who put him in jail, and he is much admired by them. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sergio "El Comanche" Ramos, Julio Alvarado, (more)
Los Pelotones de Juan Camaney features some of the most beloved stars in Mexican comedy. The all-star cast plays opposing factions that execute a series of escalating practical jokes on each other. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Luis de Alba, Gabriela Goldsmith, (more)
