Jorge Fons

Jorge Fons Pérez (23 April 1939 – 22 September 2022) was a Mexican film director. He belonged to the first generation of film directors of the UNAM. His short film, Caridad (1973), is still considered one of the best films in Mexican cinema. Two of the most important films of his filmography are Rojo amanecer (1989) and El callejón de los milagros (1995) based on the homonymous book by Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley of 1947, which breaks the classic lineal plots in films. His 1976 film, Los albañiles, won the Silver Bear at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1995, his film El callejón de los milagros won a Special Mention at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.

Works

Tú, yo, nosotros

Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.

Release Date1972-06-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Ernesto

Vote Count3

Léemelo

Release Date2022-08-29

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Disrupted

The memory and testimony of two characters: Fernando García, known as Pinolito, who was a child actor in the seventies and Doña Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came out as a transvestite, some years ago, and now calls himself Coral Bonelli. They live together in Garibaldi yearning for their past in the movies, while Coral bravely comes to terms with her gender identity. They both still perform.

Release Date2013-03-08

Charactersd Self

Vote Count11

Mi corazón es tuyo

Fernando Lascurain is a wealthy businessman and recent widower, attempting to raise his seven unruly children. He seeks the assistance of a new nanny. He hires and falls in love with Ana Leal, a struggling exotic dancer who tries to hide her double life. Although Ana lacks experience and a refined education, she quickly bonds with the Lascurain children. Ana dreams of being a mother, but when her home is destroyed following an accident, she must borrow money from her ruthless boss at "Chicago", the night club where she is secretly employed. When Fernando simultaneously falls for Ana and Isabela, an economist and sophisticated woman who is trained by her mother to marry a millionaire, he must choose between both women.

Release Date2014-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count177

Vote Count1215

Burden of Guilt

Paulino Córdoba, Gabino Roura, Rodolfo Huerta, and Matías Quiroga have been friends since childhood; however, as adults, their priorities shifted, and a sin now threatens to destroy their friendship. Paulino owns the El Milagro apple hacienda and is married to Rosario; they have two children, César and Lucrecia. Rosario has always favored her son while openly rejecting her daughter. Lucrecia was raised by Delfina, Rosario’s maid and Manuel’s mother.

Release Date2009-06-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count110

Vote Count123

Yo compro esa mujer

In the early 20th century, the Montes de Oca family—comprising two sisters and a cousin—finds itself entangled in an intense love triangle. Matilde is in love with her cousin Rodrigo, who loves the other sister, Branca Flor; she, in turn, loves a humble fisherman. Upon discovering this, Rodrigo accuses the fisherman of theft, leading to his arrest. The lovestruck cousin’s malice knows no bounds; learning that Branca Flor is carrying the fisherman's child, he waits for the baby to be born so he can make it disappear.

Release Date1990-01-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count160

Vote Count4

Porque el Amor Manda

Porque el Amor Manda is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa. It is a remake of the Colombian telenovela El secretario, produced by Juan Andrés Flórez in 2011. Fernando Colunga and Blanca Soto star as the protagonists Claudia Álvarez stars as the antagonist.

Release Date2012-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count182

Vote Count445

Una familia con suerte

A Mexican telenovela based on the Argentinean telenovela Los Roldán.

Release Date2011-02-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count266

Vote Count162

Si Dios Me Quita La Vida

Si Dios Me Quita La Vida is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. This telenovela was broadcast in 1995. This is a remake of the 1961 telenovela La Leona starred by Amparo Rivelles and Ernesto Alonso.

Release Date1995-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count125

Vote Count2

La casa al final de la calle

Release Date1989-01-16

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

The Surprise

Humble, illiterate mechanic Mauricio juggles a secret affair with his aristocratic boss Ingrid while mistreating his wife; a gifted luxury watch goes missing and triggers a chaotic chain of mishaps as he tries to cover his tracks.

Release Date1969-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Midaq Alley

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.

Release Date1995-05-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count72

Red Dawn

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.

Release Date1990-10-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count152

The Summit

A fleeting instant in filial relations shows us the way in which we transmit to our children and others the meaning we attribute to life.

Release Date2003-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Así es Vietnam

Military invention in Vietnam 1955 to 1975.

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Children's Hour

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to whom he reluctantly tells stories and tries to keep entertained while waiting for his fee to be paid.

Release Date1969-06-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count3

Charity

An elderly wealthy woman’s public charity in a forgotten town sparks tension and rivalry among neighbors. A working-class wife is pushed into a harsh maze of institutions as the conflict spills into family life.

Release Date1974-02-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Love Traps

Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.

Release Date1969-06-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Pulquería La Rosita

A child living with his parents in a lost city faces daily violence in a marginal environment. It was the first production of CUEC-UNAM.

Release Date1965-06-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Faith, Hope and Charity

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Release Date1974-02-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count17

Partners and Lovers

Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)

Release Date1973-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Matrimonio y Sexo

A marriage in decline decides to try new things through sex in order to save their relationship.

Release Date1970-06-26

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Vote Count4

The Bricklayers

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.

Release Date1976-12-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count33

Jory

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect.

Release Date1973-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

The Cubs

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.

Release Date1973-05-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count15

File of Attempted Murder

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

Release Date2010-08-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count11

Cinco mil dolares de recompensa

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.

Release Date1974-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

The Beloved Ones

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.

Release Date1965-09-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count6

Everyone's Hell So Feared

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.

Release Date1981-09-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

El Quelite

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

Release Date1970-12-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

A Pure Soul

Second of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). Claudia, a young aristocratic girl travels to Switzerland to recover the corpse of her brother, Juan Luis. As she flies back home to Mexico, in flashback it is revealed that she and her brother had an incestuous relationship and that she managed to drive his fiance, Claire, to her death... with tragic consequences for all of them.

Release Date1965-09-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count4

The Two Elenas

Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless, constantly criticized by her mother, also named Elena, who is very refined, correct and bourgeois. The three of them will be involved in a rather ambiguous and at the same time terribly moving moment in their lives.

Release Date1965-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1