Known for Directing
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo, March 26, 1904 – August 6, 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria, which won the Palme d'Or award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions of Mexico and also in Hollywood.
Born
March 26, 1903
Died
August 6, 1986 (age 83)
Birthplace
Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico
Filmography
163 films, 4 shows


Erótica
1979 · 1h 22m
country: Mexico
Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other con man escapes from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.


México Norte
1979 · 1h 51m
country: Unknown
Remake of Pueblerina (1949). Convict is released from prison and tries to pick up his life-farm-girlfriend where he left off with them. But there are obstacles.


Red Zone
1976 · 1h 36m
country: Mexico
In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor, a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite with an old lover. Suddenly, the man reappears to take her away from her life of vice. But the debt owed by Leonor to the "Madame" of the house causes a series of conflicts.


La Choca
1974 · 1h 34m
country: Mexico
A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them.


El crepúsculo de un dios
1969 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
Sonia meets Roberto, a miserable actor with a few days left of life. Both fall in love, but soon after a policeman comes looking after Sonia, but is distracted by a countess during New Years Eve. Sonia and Roberto take this chance to escape.


Un dorado de Pancho Villa
1967
country: Mexico
Villa's regiment demobilizes at the end of the Revolution, but the ruling faction in the provisional government isn't eager to see them reintegrate into civilian society.


Paloma herida
1963 · 1h 25m
country: Guatemala
Paloma is a young blonde indigenous woman who arrives in a coastal town and goes to the local cantina to murder Danilo Zeta in cold blood. But the young woman is captured and, upon being tried in the public square of Puerto San José, she refuses to speak. In prison, after giving birth to a child, Judge Justo and her wife Amalia encourage her to tell them her past.


Little Town
1962 · 1h 23m
country: Mexico
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.


El impostor
1960 · 1h 19m
country: Mexico
Cesar Rubio, a school teacher in the city, is fired for staying true to his ideals and values, and is also accused of encouraging rebellion among his students, who were demanding the principal's resignation through a strike.


Una cita de amor
1958 · 1h 26m
country: Mexico
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.


La Tierra del Fuego se apaga
1955 · 1h 35m
country: Argentina
In the faraway lands of the south of the Patagonia, in a town made up of wrongdoers and thieves, a mysterious and solitary man takes a prostitute to live with him at his ranch. However, her past follows her, and he is forced to face it head on.


The Two of Us
1955 · 1h 25m
country: Mexico
After the death of her father, María returns to her hometown with Maria, her mother. Lupo and Beto fall in love with her, two brothers whose family is at odds with hers. While Beto tries to rape her, Lupo becomes the girl's protector.


La rosa blanca
1954 · 1h 46m
country: Cuba
For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.


The Abduction
1954 · 1h 25m
country: Mexico
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.


Rebellion of the Hanged
1954 · 1h 23m
country: Mexico
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.


Reportaje
1953 · 1h 43m
country: Mexico
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.


The Net
1953 · 1h 20m
country: Mexico
Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops. The Net was one of Mexico's entries at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.


When the Fog Lifts
1952 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.


The Sea and You
1952 · 1h 31m
country: Mexico
A man long thought dead returns to his fishing village home to find the love he left married to the village’s top power broker, a man who control’s the fish production with an iron fist.


Acapulco
1952 · 1h 30m
country: Mexico
A young woman who has seen better (and richer) days wants to marry a rich man because she is used to the luxuries that she no longer has.


Siempre tuya
1952 · 1h 30m
country: Mexico
Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.


La bienamada
1951 · 1h 25m
country: Mexico
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...


Las Islas Marias
1951 · 1h 24m
country: Mexico
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.


Victims of Sin
1951 · 1h 25m
country: Mexico
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.


One Day of Life
1950 · 1h 37m
country: Mexico
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.


The Torch
1950 · 1h 23m
country: United States
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.


Duelo en las montañas
1950 · 1h 24m
country: Mexico
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
The Unloved Woman
The Unloved Woman
1949 · 1h 26m
country: Mexico
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.


Pueblerina
1949 · 1h 51m
country: Mexico
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.


Salon Mexico
1949 · 1h 31m
country: Mexico
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.


Maclovia
1948 · 1h 45m
country: Mexico
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.


Hidden River
1948 · 1h 50m
country: Mexico
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.


The Pearl
1947 · 1h 26m
country: Mexico
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.


Enamorada
1946 · 1h 39m
country: Mexico
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.


Pepita Jiménez
1946 · 1h 24m
country: Mexico
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.


Bugambilia
1945 · 1h 45m
country: Mexico
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.


The Abandoned
1945 · 1h 43m
country: Mexico
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.


Maria Candelaria
1944 · 1h 42m
country: Mexico
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.


Wild Flower
1943 · 1h 34m
country: Mexico
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.


I'm a Real Mexican
1942 · 2h 5m
country: Mexico
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.


Passion Island
1942 · 2h
country: Argentina
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.