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Alfonso Arau

Alfonso Arau

Film director, actor
January 11, 1932 (92 years old)
U.S. 2017. Animation by Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina. A kid mad about music, but from a family that forbids it, searches in the realm of the dead for his grandfather, a famous guitarist who disappeared in the middle of the last century.
Runtime: 105 min.
It. 2010. by Alfonso Arau.
U.S. 2003. Mores drama by Alfonso Arau with Logan Lerman, Scott Glenn, Robert Sean Leonard. The trials and tribulations of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his family on an Arkansas farm in the early 1950s.
U.S. 2001. Mores drama by Alfonso Arau with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood. At the beginning of the 20th century, a selfish and proud young man from a rich family experiences various disillusions.
U.S. 2000. Comedy by Alfonso Arau with Woody Allen, David Schwimmer, Kiefer Sutherland. After killing and butchering his wife, a butcher misplaces one of the hands that ends up being sacred for the pilgrims of a small village.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1995. Sentimental drama by Alfonso Arau with Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Giancarlo Giannini.
Runtime: 102 min.

Like Water for Chocolate

V.O.: Como agua para chocolate
Mex. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Alfonso Arau with Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torné. A tyrannical mother, who lives on a ranch, forces her youngest daughter to be her maid and cook.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1987. Melodrama by Jack Gold with Glenn Close, Keith Carradine, Alfonso Arau. An American couple moves to Mexico to exploit an old copper mine.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1984. Adventures by Robert Zemeckis with Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito. A novelist travels to Colombia to rescue her sister who was kidnapped by bandits.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1972. Dramatic comedy by Jerome Courtland with Stuart Whitman, Alfonso Arau, Douglas Fowley. An Arizona shepherd befriends a female cougar he has tamed.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1971. Western by Robert Butler with Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey.
Runtime: 114 min.

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