Premio Ariel a la Mejor Dirección
The Ariel Award for Best Director (Premio Ariel a la Mejor Dirección, officially known as the Ariel Award for Best Directing) is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the Mexican film industry.
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- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsDomingo SolerAnita BlanchAmparo MorilloIn rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel (barraca), the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of "another" working the land that once belonged to one of them.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixPedro ArmendárizFernando FernándezDuring the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsPedro ArmendárizMaría Elena MarquésFernando WagnerThe discovery of a perfect pearl forever changes the lives of a poor Mexican fisherman and his family.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixCarlos López MoctezumaFernando FernándezCalled by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsFernando SolerDavid SilvaMartha RothA strict patriarch exercises almost absolute control over his family and uses it to impose his vision of order and conservative family values. However, the budding sexuality of some of his children causes the union to unravel.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela IndaA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsArturo de CórdovaLeticia PalmaRamón GayA fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsDolores Del RíoPedro López LagarEduardo NoriegaMarta (Dolores del Río) es una mujer que vive obsesionada, ya que su madre y su hermano murieron de esquizofrenia. Temerosa de que la enfermedad sea congénita, sobreprotege hasta el extremo a su único hijo (Alejandro Ciangherotti Jr.). Debido a su obsesión, Marta no se da cuenta que la única afectada psicológicamente en su familia es ella.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsDavid SilvaVíctor ParraSara GarcíaDesperate for improving his quality of life, a young failed door-to-door salesman ends up accepting a dubious job from a mysterious old friend.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsDan O'HerlihyJaime FernándezFelipe de AlbaThe classic story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
- DirectorAlfonso Corona BlakeStarsMario Humberto Jiménez PonsIgnacio García TorresRogelio 'Frijolitos' Jiménez PonsPortrait of the lives of marginalized children in Mexico City, through three juvenile criminals. One killed his stepfather to protect his mother, another blinded his guardian to ward off his abuses, and a third had to steal in order to eat.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsSilvia PinalJoaquín CorderoCarlos RiquelmeThe story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsManolo FábregasLucha VillaHéctor SuárezA mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
- DirectorGonzalo Martínez OrtegaStarsLucha VillaNarciso BusquetsAndrés GarcíaA man returns from Paris to find his home of Chihuahua Mexico occupied by Francisco Villa's revolutionary troops.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMercedes CarreñoGregorio CasalArmando SilvestreMartin lives in a mountain hut with his wife, La Choca, and his son, little Martin, and Flor, Choca's sister. They live through hardship to make ends meet, and Martin does some smuggling. During his abscence, three men arrive, accuse him of having betrayed them, and set a trap to capture him. When he arrives, all hell breaks loose, and out of the carnage only La Choca survives.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsGian Maria VolontèDiana BrachoClaudio ObregónIt is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Martha NavarroEmma RoldánWhen a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsJosé AlonsoMaría RojoAna Ofelia MurguíaA woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend (Rojo). This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. One day, the mother gets sick and falls into a coma. Her son arrives but she is unconscious. He has a brief but passionate affair with her mother's friend and then disappears, as quickly as he came back from the sea.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Narciso BusquetsErnesto Gómez CruzA former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsAlejandro ParodiJosé Carlos RuizRebeca SilvaA terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
- DirectorJosé EstradaStarsJulissaClaudia IslasGregorio CasalOne weekend in Mexico City, the inhabitants of an old apartment building celebrate two different ceremonies: a debutante party (Quinceanera) and a velatory. Neighbors get mixed between the two pachangas while love, sex, comedy, and tragedy are combined into a funny and explosive cocktail.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsHumberto ZuritaMaría RojoJosé Carlos RuizPedro (Humberto Zurita) commands an guerrilla group. In a failed attack on a senior government official, the rebels abduct Pablo (Manuel Ojeda), who is Pedro's former party colleague. The guerrillas are besieged in a safe house and have to deliberate on the fate of Pablo.