Alfonso Arau
Mexican actor, film director and producer (born 1932)
0.65body-of-work score · ranked #1252 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- January 11, 1932 · Mexico City
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Work
- television actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1Like Water for ChocolateComo agua para chocolate
1992 · Mexico · romance, drama
NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Ebert's annual top 10 1993 #7 · Sarris's annual top 10 1993 #7
0.503 citations - 2
1995 · United States / Mexico · drama, romance, war
Ebert's annual top 10 1995 #10
0.141 citation
Complete filmography
All 10 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1971El águila descalza
- 1974Calzonzin Inspector
- 1981Mojado Power
- 1992Like Water for Chocolate
- 1995A Walk in the Clouds
- 2000Picking Up the Pieces
- 2002The Magnificent Ambersons
- 2003A Painted House
- 2004Zapata: El sueño de un héroe
- 2009The Trick in the Sheet