Luis Estrada (born January 17, 1962) is a Mexican film director, writer and producer widely known for his satirical tetralogy on Mexican politics: Herod's law (La ley de Herodes, 1999), A wonderful world (Un mundo maravilloso, 2006), El infierno (2010) and The perfect dictatoship (La dictadura perefecta, 2014). He is the son of Mexican film director José Estrada.
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Release Date2010-09-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count798
The story of the Baladro sisters, known as “Las Poquianchis”, who built a brothel empire and became merciless killers in 1960s Mexico.
Release Date2025-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count82
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.
Release Date1988-08-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count37
Vote Count26
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.
Release Date1994-08-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count10
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Release Date1999-11-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count209
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
Release Date2023-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count203
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Release Date2014-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count209
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Release Date2006-03-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count116
Dalia and Daniel are a couple running away from the noise, the pollution and the social prejudice, so they take shelter at an isolated farmhouse, which used to belong to Daniel's father. There they are, in full intimacy with each other, only with nature and their own memories. However, the monotony and the loneliness gradually deteriorates their relationship.
Release Date1982-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daughter. Lila is kidnapped by drug dealers and Juan feels responsible for her. He takes the long way to Tijuana to rescue Lila. (Written by Maximiliano Maza mmaza@campus.mty.itesm.mx)
Release Date1991-02-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival.
Release Date1991-08-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
Patada de Mula, an old retired boxer, lives with the guilt of having killed his opponent in his last fight, but he works as a masseur in a gym, sells balloons on Sundays and with the proceeds supports the widow of the opponent he killed and his son El Kid, an aspiring boxer, without his knowledge. Patada is also in love with his neighbor Marga, a young woman who is pushed into prostitution by the gangster Duque and his own father, but to whom Patada sends letters as an anonymous lover. The Kid is sponsored by Duke and detests Patada for the death of his father, but when he throws him out of the inn that his mother tends she confesses to him what he has done for them and the Kid asks her forgiveness and makes him his second.
Release Date1981-06-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
Follow Pedro Azcona, a high school student educated by the Legionaries of Christ. Driven by revolutionary ideals, he decides to join the Zapatista movement. Years later, he looks back on his youth from a life of success and privilege—the polar opposite of his past struggle.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
