Zapata: The dream of a hero
Zapata: The dream of a hero
Genres
Overview
This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata as an Indigenous Mexican shaman, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican movie ever produced, with a massive ad campaign, and the largest ever opening in the nation's history. Unusual in the Mexican film industry, Zapata was financed independently.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
91 min
Release Date
2004-03-20
Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Vote Count
20
Vote Average
5.5
Alejandro Fernández
Emiliano Zapata
Patricia Velásquez
Josefa
Jesús Ochoa
Victoriano Huerta
Jaime Camil
Eufemio Zapata
Fernando Becerril
Presidente Francisco Madero
Miguel Couturier
José Yves Limantour
Lucero
Esperanza
José Luis Cruz
5.8
One Day of Life
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
1950-11-23 | es
5.2
Then God Named It Earth
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
1961-09-07 | es
6.8
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
2003-09-07 | en
5.2
Like Water for Chocolate
Tita, who lives on a ranch in Mexico, falls in love with a boy, Pedro, who lives nearby; but when they want to get married, Tita's family prevents it, because she must remain single to take care of her mother.
2023-01-19 | en
4.7
El ametralladora
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
1943-09-28 | es
5.7
The Underdogs
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
1940-06-01 | es
5.5
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
1978-08-10 | es
4.5
At a Lame Pace
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
1980-05-29 | es
5.6
Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
1948-04-29 | es
5.4
La Generala
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
1971-01-01 | es
6.0
La chamuscada (Tierra y libertad)
A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.
1971-01-14 | es
6.1
La Cucaracha
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
1959-11-12 | es
5.1
This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
1958-07-14 | es
6.9
La soldadera
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
1967-08-10 | es
5.1
Cuando lloran los valientes
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
1947-01-08 | es
7.7
Enamorada
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
1946-12-25 | es
5.7
Red Rain
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
1950-01-26 | es
5.2
Cuartelazo
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
1977-05-04 | es
8.3
The Scapular
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
1968-01-18 | es
5.0
Citizen Buelna
Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.
2013-03-29 | es