Mario Almada

Actor

January 8, 1922 (94 years)

† October 4, 2016

Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico

Biography

Mario Almada Otero (January 7, 1922 - October 4, 2016) was a Mexican actor with a career lasting over seven decades. He has appeared in over 370 films. He is most known for his roles in urban westerns and action pictures. He was the brother of actor Fernando Almada. Almada was born in Huatabampo, Sonora. Apart from acting he was also a director, writer and film producer. He began his artistic career in Mexico during the 1930s. He has appeared in over 200 films, with his first being Madre Querid…

Filmography

7.9

El Infierno

El Texano

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.

7.8

Under the Same Moon

Padrino

Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.

5.2

Cyclone

Pitorro

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.

6.5

Blood Screams

Victoriano Córdova

When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start disappearing, the locals point the suspicion at two young visitors. The only solution is for the two to unearth the legend of a madman in this supernatural thriller.

7.8

El Arracadas

Mariano Landeros is sworn by his mother to look for the murderer of his father at all costs, the proof would bring that Doroteo Carrillo earring snatched his mother when it happened the asesinato.Mariano part unstoppably to find the murderer finding in the way love, hate and violence.

5.3

Violación

Navarro

In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.

6.7

The Death of a Stallion

When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.

7.4

El Cuatrero

Gambler-horsethief-womanizer ends up hiding out in a church-run orphanage. Spiritual regeneration stuff happens.

5.1

La India

El Zarco

Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come to see her...

6.3

Emboscada

Silvestre Otero

Two men suspect a president and put him a trap to expose him to everyone in the town. Little do they know that more truths will unravel.

5.2

Traficantes Del Panico

Pedro

A band of thugs belonging to an organized crime family assaults several casinos at the same time creating death and panic in their wake. As they flee the scenes of their crimes police begin to close in on them, so they quickly hide themselves in a villa owned by a wealthy industrialist taking him and his family hostage.

6.3

Jóvenes delincuentes

A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.

4.7

Carroña

Horseback drama set in Mexico just before the Revolution.

7.0

Siete En La Mira

Sheriff Ventura

A quaint small town is terrorized by a group of sadistic bikers.

5.6

El tunco Maclovio

Juan Mariscal

Maclovio, an infamous gunfighter with only one hand, is hired by a rich lady to kill her daughters boyfriend. Maclovio believes he can live in peace after the job but a mysterious man who claims to have unfinished business with him appears.

6.0

Massacre in Rio Grande

Sheriff Bob

The sequel to 'La muerte del chacal' finds the murderer from the first film still alive, and back to kill more unsuspecting victims. His brother is once again out to stop him.

6.5

Death Squad

Mario Balbuena

Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.

6.5

El Ansia de matar

Roberto

This is a true story. Kicho and Maria come to Mexico looking for a better life but Maria gets killed by the guerrilla before she gets to sign the papers at the border. Kicho promises himself he will get revenge one day. At the same time a family of four gets kidnapped during a hunting trip by the same "red beret" guy who commands the guerrilla and left the father thinking hes dead. He is an experienced hunter and with Kichos help, who knows the woods very well, track down the guerrilla to rescue the rest of the family.

5.6

Jesus El Pata De Palo - El Criminal

Jesús was framed for a crime he didn't commit, he serves his sentence and then goes home to get revenge.

4.4

Zona Invadida

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