Movies by David Silva

Alucarda

Alucarda

A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.

The Bricklayers

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.

Faith, Hope and Charity

Faith, Hope and Charity

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

Espaldas mojadas

Espaldas mojadas

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.

A Family Like Many Others

A Family Like Many Others

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

Fateful Findings

Fateful Findings

A small boy discovers a mystical power as a child. He is then separated from his childhood girlfriend. He grows up to be a computer scientist who is hacking into the most secret national and international secrets, as well as being an acclaimed novel writer. His childhood 'finding' gives him amazing paranormal powers. He is reunited with the childhood girlfriend, mystically, on his hospital deathbed... as his relationship with his current drug addict girlfriend is deteriorating. The passions build between the threesome. Mystical, psychiatric ...

Then God Named It Earth

Then God Named It Earth

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.

The Rider of the Skulls

The Rider of the Skulls

Episodic film in which a masked hero combats a trio of classic monsters.

Those Who Came Back

Those Who Came Back

A small disparate group of people board a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. A remake of the film Five Came Back (1939) directed by John Farrow.

Don't Walk Alone

Don't Walk Alone

A group of young people go to do a school assignment and end up being killed by a mysterious killer.

La sonrisa del flaco

La sonrisa del flaco

Revancha

Revancha

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.

Jóvenes y rebeldes

Jóvenes y rebeldes

Get Off at the Next Corner!

Get Off at the Next Corner!

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.

Huracán Ramírez

Huracán Ramírez

Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...

El amor no es ciego

El amor no es ciego

A boxer wins a championship but he is injured and forced to retire. After that he falls in love with a blind girl.

El fistol del diablo II

El fistol del diablo II

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo." The others are El fistol del diablo, Juego diabólico and El ataúd infernal. All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

Una horca para el Texano

Una horca para el Texano

Escalating tensions within a frontier town besieged by outlaws.

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