Alexandro Aldrete

Mexican director, writer, actor and producer. He graduated in Communications in his hometown of Monterrey. In 2006 he obtained a grant from the Carolina Foundation and Casa de America for the development of Latin American film projects. In 2008 he wrote, directed and produced his first feature film, OLIENDO A PERRO. Two years later, he directs the film MAÑANA PSICOTRÓPICA. In 2013 he wrote and co-directed the web series PUERTO ALEGRE.

Works

Oliendo a Perro

Tavo, a self-proclaimed fashion photographer from Monterrey is secretly following his sexbomb model girlfriend hoping to catch her in a suspected infidelity. Hacking into her computer with the help of his best friend Horacio, they soon find more than expected, falling into a downward spiral of strange encounters and bizarre outcomes. As the hours go by and the evidence piles up, they become convinced she's having an affair with a dog.

Release Date2011-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count2

Heights

Miriana “Miwi" awakens at midnight to find out her sister Juliana had an accident. We don't have more information, just the vertiginous impulse of Miwi to take some food, money, a cell phone and start the car in order to accompany her sister on a trip where she will find some clues about what happened. We view the history from Miwi's point of view while we found out the events that occurred sharing with her the pain and bewilderment.

Release Date2013-04-29

DepartmentProduction

JobCasting

Charactersd Locutor de Radio

Vote Count11

Son-in-Law

José Sánchez has big ambitions, terrible instincts, and a mustache to match. After a string of bad deals, he accidentally bluffs his way into becoming El Serpiente, a political boss feared for all the wrong reasons. Now he must pull off one final deal to stay alive — a deal far beyond anything he can fake.

Release Date2026-04-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count10

Anonymously Yours

After an accidental text message turns into a digital friendship, Vale and Alex start crushing on each other without realizing they've met in real life.

Release Date2021-12-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count377

Who Killed Him?

Through the points of view of the six people closest to him, the story of the unsolved murder of Mexican TV host Paco Stanley in 1999 is revealed behind the scenes where fame, betrayal and excess point to different suspects.

Release Date2024-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count73

Technoboys

They're fierce, they're iconic, they're back — and they're totally lost. A boyband seeking a renaissance must navigate a world they barely understand.

Release Date2024-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count44

The Busty Doll

In a photograph among journalists, writers, academics and artists was a controversial president of Mexico and the unusual guest who owes the name of this story.

Release Date2017-08-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Death to Summer

Dante spends his days between factories, skateboards and corpses, but the only thing he cares about is the Death Metal band he plays in with his best friends. Lucy, the girlfriend of his comatose brother, comes to visit, and here presence will cause chaos, confusion, but also hope.

Release Date2021-06-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Road to Roma

Director Alfonso Cuarón reflects on the childhood memories, period details and creative choices that shaped his Academy Award-winning film 'ROMA.'

Release Date2020-02-11

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count29

Psychotropic Sunrise

Following a suicide attempt, 19 year old Lito travels from Monterrey to Querétaro to visit his 20 years old cousin Koko; where he joins his group of friends with the intention of selling drugs to pay for a weekend trip to the beaches of Michoacán. Among psychotropic pills, LSD and mushrooms; among improvised friendships and trips to nature, a bond is created reinforcing their friendship; while Lito seems to find the path towards reconciliation.

Release Date2015-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Midday Cowboy

The story of a true and masterly poet who lived through war, heyday and tragedy of the end of the century.

Release Date2019-10-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

The Rest of the World

How Alejandro, an artisan, and Kiara, his seven-year-old daughter, live in a small rented room in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico.

Release Date2014-03-04

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count1

The Letters

Behind the dark, sensuous and almost hallucinatory images, a grim story is smouldering about a school teacher and social activist, who after a questionable trial was convicted for killing four police officers in a Mexican province.

Release Date2015-08-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5