Carlos Savage

Editor

May 20, 1919 (81 years)

† September 29, 2000

Mexico City, Mexico

Biography

Carlos Savage Suárez (Mexico City, May 20, 1919 - September 29, 2000) was a Mexican film editor and actor. Carlos Savage entered the México Films studios as an assistant to his uncle José Marino, who was an editor. Later at the Estudios Nacional he was head of the synchronic court and by 1938 with the film La rosa de Xochimilco he became editor. From now on, and until 1995, he would participate in the editing of more than a thousand feature films, short films and documentaries. He was an active…

Filmography

6.0

Desnúdate, Lucrecia

Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake.

8.0

The Young and the Damned

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

6.9

The Young One

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

7.9

The Exterminating Angel

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

7.2

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.

7.7

Por mis pistolas

Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.

7.6

Simon of the Desert

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

6.3

The Devil's Visitations

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.

7.8

Poison for the Fairies

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.

7.6

Nazarín

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

7.0

María

Romance melodrama set in 19th century Colombia.

4.3

Shark

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

6.4

Robinson Crusoe

The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.

6.3

Cemetery of Terror

On Halloween night, a group of bored teens decide to steal a corpse from the local morgue and take it to a nearby cemetery where they perform a Satanic ritual, unwittingly reviving a bloodthirsty serial killer.

7.7

Él

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

4.7

Corazón salvaje

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.

5.2

Coronation

The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.

6.9

Amigo

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5.4

Dr. Satan

Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?

5.8

Don't Panic

On his 17th birthday, a boy named Michael has a surprise party thrown by his friends, where a session with a Ouija board accidentally unleashes a demon named Virgil, who possesses one of them to go on a killing spree. Michael, now plagued by violent nightmares and premonitions, sets out to try and stop the killings.