Alberto Isaac Movies

Four Mexican women set forth on an emancipatory journey to Guadalajara in this upbeat drama. The story begins in the tiny pueblo of Comala. Ema, a bank teller, persuades her three friends Chayo, Isabelle and Clotilde to leave their brutish spouses and accompany her on a trip to Guadalajara to find freedom. Once there Isabelle, worried about her mentally-retarded daughter, goes home. The other three decide to stay and look for work and a place to stay. They find both in the restaurant and nightclub of Rosa 4. While there, Rosa begins falling for Homero, a womanizing drug runner pretending to be a student. Ema is unaware of his true identity. She is also unaware that her husband Felipe has gone looking for her. When Ema learns the truth about Homero, she beats him senseless, flushes his drugs down the toilet, and steals his money. The three women use part of the cash to fly to Los Angeles; the rest of it they use to start up a Mexican Restaurant. Meanwhile Felipe continues his search. At one point he runs into Homero and Felipe is almost killed. Felipe escapes and finally makes it to the restaurant in LA where he begs Ema for a second chance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Based on a true story, the man Chinto (Pedro Armendáriz) in Matan a Chinto puts Rambo in the shade. In the port city of Colima, Mexico, a hotel has been run by an increasingly psychotic manager. One day, he completely loses it, takes up his weapons, and starts killing everyone in sight. It takes the combined efforts of the police, the army, the navy and the townspeople to finally subdue him - and a surprisingly large amount of firepower. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

A veteran supporting cast graces the inspirational Beyond the Next Mountain. The story follows what happens when the Christian gospel of John finds its way to one of the most violent tribes in India and changes its leaders from bellicose warriors to Christ-loving pacifists. One of the converts, Rochunga Pudaite, is so moved and changed inside that he launches the 'Bibles for the World' organization, so that others can hear the gospel as well. Jon Lormer, Edward Ashley and Barry Foster are among the familiar faces in the cast. James F. Collier (Joni), a veteran helmer of Christian cinema, directs. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

In rural Mexico, during the silent-film era, people who could read were delegated to narrate the films' story cards. In this film, Lucas Lucatero not only performed that chore, but traveled around with a charismatic peddler, Anacieto Morones (Emilio Fernandes) who at some point began to pass himself off as a miracle worker. The film begins as a group of women land on Lucas' doorstep requesting his help in having the now-deceased wonder-worker considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic church. Flashbacks tell Anacieto's true story, which is as far from pious notions of sainthood as is possible, for his miraculous accomplishments were mostly of a sexual nature. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual revolution started moving into full swing and even a lot of Middle America, at least on the two coasts, admitted the existence of same revolution. It seems like the guys and girls at Ocean View are all loving pretty freely, and that extends to the school's resident faculty hero, football coach/guidance counselor "Tiger" McDrew (Rock Hudson), who -- despite his being married, with a child -- has been bedding many of the prettiest girls at the school. The only kid seemingly not "getting any" is Ponce de Leon Harper (John David Carson), who is starting to get neurotic and suffer academically, so much so that he seeks advice from McDrew, especially where his new substitute teacher, Miss Smith (Angie Dickinson), is concerned. But then various girls start turning up at the school dead, in various states of undress, with cryptic notes pinned to intimate parts of their anatomy. The lunkhead county sheriff (Keenan Wynn) is forced to defer to a state police investigator (Telly Savalas), who starts nosing around the school and uncovers more than he bargained for in terms of libidinous students, among other problems. Meanwhile, Ponce finds his problem taken care of by Miss Smith, at McDrew's request. But there's still a killer stalking the school.

If the plot and ambience of this movie seems shocking today, that's because it would be. Made at the outset of the sexual revolution, this was MGM's desperate attempt to run with the times, in terms of depicting a high school where sexual relations between students are considered routine and even those between faculty and students are accepted as long as they're kept quiet. Anyone trying to make such a movie in 2006 would face threats of prosecution, investigation, etc., and probably find it impossible to get the movie booked into theaters; MGM didn't have that easy a time in 1971, though (amazingly) the movie has been shown on television. Precisely what director Roger Vadim brought to Gene Roddenberry's screenplay (based on a novel by Francis Pollini) is difficult to tell, though he at least makes the sleazy and tawdry, smirky sex scenes and leering camera shots flow smoothly -- screenplay, director, and cameraman alike are fixated on the female anatomy throughout, though not in as distinctive a manner as Russ Meyer and his attachment to breasts. The presence of a couple of Star Trek co-stars and supporting villains, James Doohan and William Campbell, also makes this especially weird to watch. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money. Watch for Luis Buñuel in the role of a local priest in this social drama that alludes to the evils of ignorance and poverty. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide