Juan Ángel Martínez

Juan Ángel Martínez

Born: July 19, 1939
Died: May 10, 1984
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Born in Mexico City in 1939, died there in 1984. He married journalist Marta de la Lama in 1976. He was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Actor in 1982 (Noche de Carnaval), 1985 (Luna de Sangre)

Movies for Juan Ángel Martínez...

Domingo Corrales
Title: Domingo Corrales
Released: July 29, 1988
Type: Movie
Son looks for his father's murderer.
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El gran relajo mexicano
Title: El gran relajo mexicano
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Contrabando y muerte
Title: Contrabando y muerte
Released: December 4, 1986
Type: Movie
A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
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El otro
Title: El otro
Released: April 24, 1986
Type: Movie
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
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Frida Still Life
Title: Frida Still Life
Character: Woodworker
Released: March 13, 1986
Type: Movie
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
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Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Title: Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Character: Jota Jota
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...
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Nosotros los pelados
Title: Nosotros los pelados
Character: El Triplay
Released: June 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
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Under the Volcano
Title: Under the Volcano
Character: Passenger
Released: June 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
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Motel
Title: Motel
Character: Burócrata
Released: March 29, 1984
Type: Movie
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
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Luna de sangre
Title: Luna de sangre
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Noche de carnaval
Title: Noche de carnaval
Released: January 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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Viva el chubasco
Title: Viva el chubasco
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact.
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El día que murió Pedro Infante
Title: El día que murió Pedro Infante
Character: Worker
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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El mil usos
Title: El mil usos
Released: April 26, 1981
Type: Movie
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
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The Sowing of Others
Title: The Sowing of Others
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Short film. Unknown plot.
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Broken Flag
Title: Broken Flag
Character: El 22
Released: June 21, 1979
Type: Movie
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
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Anacrusa
Title: Anacrusa
Released: May 17, 1979
Type: Movie
The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.
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New World
Title: New World
Character: Maestro Manuel Ortiz
Released: August 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
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Paper Flowers
Title: Paper Flowers
Character: Ali baba
Released: February 1, 1978
Type: Movie
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
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Los de abajo
Title: Los de abajo
Released: November 15, 1977
Type: Movie
In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.
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The Black Widow
Title: The Black Widow
Released: August 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
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El elegido
Title: El elegido
Character: Jesus Nazareno
Released: January 13, 1977
Type: Movie
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
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Longitud de guerra
Title: Longitud de guerra
Character: Cap. Corral
Released: December 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
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Juan Armenta, el repatriado
Title: Juan Armenta, el repatriado
Character: Peón (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1976
Type: Movie
Juan returns home to Mexico after working in the USA for awhile, and gets caught up in cowboy problems among his townsfolk.
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Espejismo de la ciudad
Title: Espejismo de la ciudad
Character: El Trompas
Released: March 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Title: Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Character: Comisario
Released: March 4, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Title: Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Released: February 4, 1976
Type: Movie
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
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El albañil
Title: El albañil
Character: El Perro, albañil
Released: October 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
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Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Title: Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
Released: September 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
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The Coming of the King Olmos
Title: The Coming of the King Olmos
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: Movie
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
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Esa mi Irene
Title: Esa mi Irene
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
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The Holy Inquisition
Title: The Holy Inquisition
Character: Pregonero de la Inquisición
Released: June 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
Title: La muerte de Pancho Villa
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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Apuntes
Title: Apuntes
Character: El Juan
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Title: Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Character: Julián Reyes
Released: January 5, 1973
Type: Movie
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
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El vals sin fin
Title: El vals sin fin
Character: Orestes
Released: November 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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El Quelite
Title: El Quelite
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.