Patricia Rivera Movies
The crime film El Culebrero follows the adventures of a ruthless criminal who rolls over anyone who stands between him and what he wants. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
The Mexican film AK-47 Temible Cuermo De Chivo takes its premise from a popular song. The title weapon helps turn a shoeshiner into one of the most feared marksmen of his time, but he uses his skills for evil after suffering continual humiliations from the woman he loves. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
This Chilean political thriller offers unique and unexpected plot twists as it unflinchingly examines Third World crime. Young Johnny and the gang to which he belongs are planning to rob a video club that is in reality a front for a money-laundering operation. Unfortunately the robbers take too long and the police arrive before they can escape. The sudden arrival of the media exacerbates the situation and the resourceful bandits pretend to be terrorists. They will free their hostages in exchange for a plane to Cuba. The media begins to paint Johnny as a tragic hero. The serpentine plot takes many turns before reaching it's conclusion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Armando Araiza, Patricia Rivera, (more)
The Spanish language action film Mission Sangrienta concerns a pair of police officers who have been assigned to take down a powerful female drug kingpin. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1990
After he is jailed for his involvement in a traffic accident, his next of kin are automatically notified so that bail can be arranged. In this comedy, based on Emilio Carballido's stage play, this is the first time the hapless chump's two wives find out about each other. After some initial sparring, the wifely hairdresser and translator pool their cash to try and spring their husband from jail. After they think about it a little while, they decide they like each other much better than the scoundrel who has been lying to them, so they leave him safely locked up and go on a holiday cruise together instead. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Olivia Collins, Patricia Rivera, (more)
- 1987
In this politically charged drama, two young agriculturalists have returned to their home village to try and bring about positive changes in the ways local farmers do things. One has seen how it is done on U.S. farms; for years he was an illegal farmhand there. The other has been studying agronomy in college. Unfortunately, they are strenuously opposed by the big landowner in the region, who has gone unopposed while exploiting the little farmers for as long as anyone can remember. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Juan Valentin, Pedro Infante, Jr., (more)
Ruthless gangsters engage in bloody power struggles and a series of vendettas in this crime drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1985
In one of the more intentionally and unintentionally confusing films to come out of the directorial career of auteur Arturo Ripstein, El Otro is something else, so to speak. The film is set in the late 1940s or early '50s and told as one partially surreal story within another, and clues to unraveling the gist of the events do not come until the end. It starts when a father gets a letter from his son Armando (Rafael Sanchez-Navarro) saying that he does not want to see his family anymore. Upset, the father sends a friend, Tavares (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) to go to Armando's hacienda and check him out. On the train to the hacienda, Tavares watches an argument between a young woman and a man named Luis, and then the woman rushes into his compartment, they talk, he falls asleep, and she disappears. Once Tavares reaches the hacienda, he finds a journal written by Armando's friend Luis that describes the last several weeks. It turns out Luis did not write the journal, Armando wrote it as though he were Luis. As the events in the journal begin to unfold in flashbacks, Tavares and the audience both try to piece things together.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rafael Sanchez Navarro, Juan Ignacio Aranda, (more)
- 1985
Alfredo Gurrola's 1985 Spanish-language thriller El Rojo's Escape (La Fuga del Rojo) concerns the title character (Mario Almada), a rogue mercenary approached by a group of fighters in desperate need of guns and ammunition. The men enlist El Rojo's services, and he undertakes a dangerous mission smuggling arms across the border - for a price. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mario Almada, Carmen del Valle, (more)
The gritty Mexican drama Perro Callejero 2 follows the continuing exploits of the lead character, a former orphan who finds life is very difficult on the streets. The film opens with him leaving prison, and beginning work as a drug trafficker. Soon his attempts to get away from the criminal life are thwarted by crooked cops. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Valentin Trujillo, Erick del Castillo, (more)
- 1981
- R
A brave shark fisherman is forced to contend with baddies on land. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
- 1979
- PG
In this film, a tough shark hunter races to beat a group of gangsters to a fortune in sunken treasure. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Franco Nero
A young girl embarks on a romantic entanglement with her mother's boyfriend. ~ All Movie Guide
