Alfonso Arau

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Alfonso Arau has had a long and fruitful career both in front of and behind the camera and is one of the most prominent filmmakers of the Latino community in Hollywood. He was a drama disciple of Seki Sano--a Japanese teacher, classmate of Lee Strasberg with Konstantin Stanislavski in Russia--and traveled the world from 1964 to 1968 with his one-man show, "Pantomime Happy Madness", after studying with Etienne Decroux and Jacques Lecoq in Paris.A renowned writer-producer-director-actor in theater and films for more than 20 years, in 1969 he directed his first feature film, El águila descalza (1971), in which he also starred. He has directed many films in Mexico, among them Calzonzín inspector (1974) and Mojado Power (1981). He has received six Arieles--the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar--and numerous international film awards.Arau has acted in a number of Mexican and Hollywood films, including The Wild Bunch - Sie kannten kein Gesetz (1969), El Topo (1970), Mojado Power (1981), Mit einem Bein im Kittchen (1980), Auf der Jagd nach dem grünen Diamanten (1984), Drei Amigos! (1986) and Committed - Einmal 7. Himmel und zurück (2000). In addition to Bittersüße Schokolade (1992), his directing credits include Dem Himmel so nah (1995) with Keanu Reeves and Picking up the Pieces - Ich habe doch nur meine Frau zerlegt (2000) with Woody Allen. For television he has done The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), based on the script of Orson Welles' film version (Der Glanz des Hauses Amberson (1942)) and the novel by Booth Tarkington. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Emilia Arau/emiliaag@aol.com (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Alfonso Arau’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Alfonso Arau on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2018. See the full graphs of the number of Alfonso Arau movies released per year from 1988 till 2018.

Top Genres

Alfonso Arau works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 33% of Alfonso Arau movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Alfonso Arau worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Alfonso Arau has worked on is 5.9.

5.9 / 10

Alfonso Arau's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Drama,Western
El Topo (1970)

A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.

7.2/10125 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.

7.1/10105 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

A humble peasant is mistaken by a federal government inspector in a small town.

7/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A married soldier returning from World War II poses as a pregnant woman's husband to save her from her father's anger and honor.

6.7/10102 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Comedy,Western
Three Amigos! (1986)

Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.

6.5/10104 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in ...

6.4/1097 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Family
Scandalous John (1971)

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

5.8/10113 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Comedy,Crime,Fantasy
Picking Up the Pieces (2000)

A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.

4.7/1095 min

Available in 6 platform(s).