Alfonso Arau

Known for ActingBorn 1932-01-11 (age 94)Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.Read more

Movies & web series

Stones for Ibarra

Coco

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan

El aviso inoportuno

A Walk in the Clouds

Miami Vice

Inspector Calzonzin

The Wild Bunch

Like Water for Chocolate

A Painted House

Pedro Paramo

El Topo

Tivoli

227

Romancing the Stone

Camino largo a Tijuana

Walker

Operación carambola

Polvora En La Piel

Música en la noche

Gunsmoke

New faces

Used Cars

¡Three Amigos!

Scandalous John

Paradise

Run, Cougar, Run

The Magnificent Ambersons

Posse

Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa

Zapata: The dream of a hero

...And Your Love Too

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro

Drunk Angry Idiot

There Are No Thieves in This Village

Trip to the Moon

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

El águila descalza

Tres amigos

Nest of Virgins

Los pistolocos

Aunt Isabel's Garden

The Dead One

Round

Committed

The Day Pedro Infante Died

Mojado Power