Armando Silvestre Movies
Character actor, onscreen from 1950. ~ All Movie Guide
In this taut action thriller from Mexico, a group of radical extremists have decided to take their actions against the state to the next level. In a bid to raise both money and public attention for their cause, the four revolutionaries kidnap twentysomething Marcia, whose father is a wealthy and powerful business magnate. As the radicals hold Marcia for ransom, the young woman is thrown from her sheltered life into a world of danger, but as she struggles to find a way to free herself, she finds herself becoming infatuated with one of her abductors. ~ Mark Deming, 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)
American Gladiator Daron McBee stars as Garrett, the ex-con nephew of a former Drug Enforcement Agency operative, who hunts down a Latin American drug kingpin. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
In this actioner, a tough biker leaves his gang to become a cop and finds that he has become their latest target for revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Pancho Medrano (Alfonso Zayas) is an attorney married to an overweight wife (Carmen Salinas), who along with their children constantly depress him. When his friend Marcelo (Armando Silvestre) announces his wedding plans, Pancho and his friend throw a bachelor party complete with booze and loose women. Sight gags, sexual innuendo, and tasteless humor abound. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfonso Zayas, Carmen Salinas, (more)
- 1987
With the police and his ex-gang hot on his trail, a crook takes his million dollars in diamonds and runs. ~ All Movie Guide
An all-star cast of popular Mexican comics appears in this uneven sex comedy. A wife paints a nude picture of her husband who suspects infidelity when he is not portrayed as being anatomically correct. A veterinarian becomes obsessed over a beautiful showgirl, and the devil emerges from hell to enjoy the earthly pleasures of bar hopping. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jorge Rivero, Sasha Montenegro, (more)
This drama revolves around a star-crossed romance between two very unlikely people. Gabriela (Maribel Guardia, a former Miss Costa Rica) is a considerably beautiful young woman from a wealthy family who was educated in the United States and therefore speaks the language of high finance and everything that has "cachet." Ulises (Valentin Trujillo), whose mother washes clothes for a living, never completed his high school education. When Gabriela and Ulises meet and fall in love, her family is understandably less than enthusiastic about Ulises, so he is determined to change their opinion of him. He vows to become a successful boxer (known as "El Bronco") and therefore qualify as an appropriate husband for Gabriela. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Valentin Trujillo, Maribel Guardia, (more)
- 1985
- R
An softcore film featuring sado-masochism and bondage, Hot Chili concerns four teen-age boys who go to work at an exclusive Mexican spa. In spite of the orders of the manager, they are soon sexually involved with innumerable buxom and in sometimes kinky guests, ranging from a Nazi to a swinging elderly couple from Texas. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles Schillaci, Allan J. Kayser, (more)
In this occasionally funny (though not intentionally so) action film, an Italian gangster develops an ingenious way to smuggle Mexican diamonds into the US: he uses scuba divers. To stop them, two courageous Mexican detectives take the case. The funny parts come in when all of the action grinds to a halt while assorted popular singers sing their newest songs in an attempt to imitate a similar trend in Hollywood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gerardo Reyes, Rosa Gloria Chagoyan, (more)
- 1978
This Spanish language film take the common plot of greed and vengeance and sets it on a ranch. ~ All Movie Guide
Victor Manuel Castro's comedy Munecas de Media Noche tells the tale of a man of a man who loses his job as a nightclub entertainer after a vacation that he ended up extending without notifying his employer. He comes up with a variety of outrageous scams in order to get his place on the stage back. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sasha Montenegro, Rafael Inclán, (more)
- 1975
Not much is explained in this film in which a poor young man carries away his true love from the bordello in which she has been working. When she is called back into her old life by a telegram, the man follows and successfully kills his pursuers, a large number of police. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fanny Cano, Armando Silvestre, (more)
Temporada Salvaje (also title Savage Season) is the tale of three criminals who attempt to steal a huge amount of platinum. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- 1970
Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local town, rides up with his gang and demands that Van Cleef transport the crooks and their booty across the river. He refuses, and is taken prisoner. Biding his time, Van Cleef is able to turn the tables on the vicious gang. Heavily influenced by the ultraviolent "spaghetti western" school, Barquero attempts to add a contemporary note to the proceedings by having Warren Oates take an hallucinatory "trip" after smoking an unidentified weed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lee Van Cleef, Forrest Tucker, (more)
- 1970
Conspiracy to Kill was one of two pilot films for the Jack Webb-produced TV series The D.A. Robert Conrad stars as LA deputy district attorney Paul Ryan. This time around, Ryan reopens a case that he's already won. New evidence indicates that a supposedly victimized drugstore owner (William Conrad) was the brains behind a robbery and murder that occurred at his own establishment. The D.A. series proper ran from September 17, 1971, through January 7, 1972. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
