Ernesto Yáñez

Ernesto Yáñez

Born: November 28, 1946
Died: December 17, 2020
in Ciudad de México, México

Movies for Ernesto Yáñez...

Pastorela
Title: Pastorela
Character: Dios "El Monaguillo"
Released: November 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.
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Chilango Chronicles
Title: Chilango Chronicles
Released: August 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Confusion and eccentricity are all part of life in the vast human ocean of Mexico City -- including the three very different personalities portrayed in this urban fable. By the end of the day, their paths are destined to cross. "El Jairo" (Rodrigo Ostap) is a schizophrenic obsessed with UFOs; Claudia (Regina Orozco) is a woman addicted to pornography; and Juvenico (Patricio Castillo) is a retired teacher trying to come to grips with the future.
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Crepúsculo Rojo
Title: Crepúsculo Rojo
Released: July 23, 2010
Type: Movie
The repossession of a ranch because of the inability to pay off a mortgage causes a confrontation between two great friends: Valente and Dagoberto. As the last chance to save his patrimony, Valente robs a bank. Dagoberto is ordered to catch him and enforce the law. In the chase, old quarrels between them surface. These friends must face off in a duel under the red sunset of Iturbide, Nuevo León.
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Euforia
Title: Euforia
Released: May 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Stuck in a world of dreams and nostalgia, Pat struggles to forget the limelight and fleeting fame of his glory days. When a beautiful young woman named Ana saves his life, Pat agrees to drive her to her ancestral home, in hopes that she can save him from his own past. Unpaved roads treat the pair to a bumpy adventure full of anger management, Beethoven and The Doors, as the journey proves to be full of lessons and revelations.
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Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez
Title: Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez
Released: November 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Juan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spectacular act of beheading that it could again return it to its glory years. But without any fifth in the bag and with time running out to build a machine is forced to rob a real guillotine without this weighs a terrible curse.
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Angel Dust
Title: Angel Dust
Character: Susión
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: Movie
In the city of Latinopolis a man named Sacro is hired by a powerful company to carry out a very dangerous mission with the help of Caos, an angel hunter. Meanwhile in another part of the city Susana and Miguel, two Alter-globalization supporters are looking for their sister Susana, who mysteriously disappeared. In their search they will cross paths with an assorted mix of characters that are lost somehow in this unbelievable but true story of craziness and love.
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Pasion Extrema
Title: Pasion Extrema
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Former underground fighting star Jose Luis (Jose Luis Mosca) tries to escape his past by working as a tourist guide in a remote jungle camp but is catapulted back into the spotlight when he saves the lives of some clients in a freak accident. Casimiro (Alberto Estrella), a vicious Mafia boss with a long-simmering grudge against Jose, is thrilled to learn his whereabouts, but his efforts to confront the fighter trigger a wave of violence.
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Crazy Carnival
Title: Crazy Carnival
Released: March 4, 2006
Type: Movie
In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a whore with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
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Como tú me has deseado
Title: Como tú me has deseado
Released: January 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Non-conformist advertising executive pressured to toe the line and behave.
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Curandero
Title: Curandero
Character: Don Chi Chi
Released: October 18, 2005
Type: Movie
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
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Bandido
Title: Bandido
Character: Quintana
Released: December 10, 2004
Type: Movie
When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.
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Simón, el gran varón 2
Title: Simón, el gran varón 2
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Suertuda gloria
Title: Suertuda gloria
Character: Poncho
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Snake Skin
Title: Snake Skin
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a nightmare.
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Otaola o la república del exilio
Title: Otaola o la república del exilio
Released: December 15, 2000
Type: Movie
A blend of documentary and fiction about the death of Simón Otaola.
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The Ruination of Men
Title: The Ruination of Men
Character: The Guard
Released: September 27, 2000
Type: Movie
A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
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Such is Life
Title: Such is Life
Character: La Marrana
Released: September 14, 2000
Type: Movie
After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.
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No One Writes to the Colonel
Title: No One Writes to the Colonel
Character: Don Sabas
Released: June 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
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Collectors
Title: Collectors
Character: Pintor
Released: October 31, 1996
Type: Movie
A tabloid reporter get deep into her worst nightmare trying to get an award winning report on serial killers
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The Beginning and the End
Title: The Beginning and the End
Character: Polvorón
Released: June 24, 1994
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
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Guerrero Negro
Title: Guerrero Negro
Released: June 10, 1994
Type: Movie
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Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Title: Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Character: Superior Priest
Released: May 7, 1993
Type: Movie
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
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La mujer del puerto
Title: La mujer del puerto
Character: Eneas
Released: September 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
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Las caguamas ninja
Title: Las caguamas ninja
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together.
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Love Lies
Title: Love Lies
Character: Matilde
Released: July 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship
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Polvo De Luz
Title: Polvo De Luz
Released: June 8, 1989
Type: Movie
A filmmaker spends his final days with his wife at his family's secluded hacienda.
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Nocturnal Love that Goes Away
Title: Nocturnal Love that Goes Away
Character: Gordo Pantoja
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town.
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The Realm of Fortune
Title: The Realm of Fortune
Character: Patilludo
Released: November 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
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Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Title: Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Character: Ismael
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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Knock Out
Title: Knock Out
Character: Mesie
Released: November 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
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La combi asesina
Title: La combi asesina
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Devil's Mountain
Title: Devil's Mountain
Character: Bonifacio Vizarrón
Released: October 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.