Luis Mandoki

Luis Mandoki

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Luis Mandoki (born in 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director working in Mexico and Hollywood. Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and the London International Film School. While attending this last institution he directed his first short film Silent Music which won an award at the International Amateur Film Festival of Cannes Film Festival in 1976. Back in Mexico he directed short films and documentaries for the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (the National Institute for the Indigenous), Conacine (National Commission of Film) and the Centro de Produccion de Cortometraje (Center for the Production of Short Films). In 1980 he received an Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy of Film for his short film El secreto. Four years later, his film Motel was selected to represent Mexico in film festivals around the globe. At the age of 30 he developed, wrote, produced and directed Gaby: A True Story, a movie about the struggles of handicapped Gaby Brimer. This film was nominated for both the Academy and Golden Globe Awards. For the next 15 years he filmed only in English until the critically acclaimed Voces inocentes of 2004. This film gave him a Best Director nomination for the Ariel Award in 2005. The film also received three awards and was nominated for Best Film. The film was selected to represent Mexico for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and had a box-office output of 49.4 million pesos (roughly 4.5 million U.S. dollars) and was seen by 1.5 million people. Luis Mandoki currently resides in Mexico City with his wife, Olivia, and three children Camille, Daniel and Michelle. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luis Mandoki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Luis Mandoki
  • Popularity: 1.2619
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1954-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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Luis Mandoki Movies

  • 1994
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    When a Man Loves a Woman

    When a Man Loves a Woman

    6.592 1994 HD

    An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

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  • 2005
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    Innocent Voices

    Innocent Voices

    8.148 2005 HD

    A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

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  • 1999
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    Message in a Bottle

    Message in a Bottle

    6.266 1999 HD

    A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move on and find happiness.

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  • 2022
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    Presencias

    Presencias

    6.706 2022 HD

    A man returns to his father's cabin where he spent a good part of his childhood and where his younger sister drowned.

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  • 2001
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    Angel Eyes

    Angel Eyes

    6.054 2001 HD

    A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.

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  • 2002
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    Trapped

    Trapped

    6.162 2002 HD

    When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.

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  • 2002
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    Trapped

    Trapped

    6.162 2002 HD

    When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.

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  • 1990
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    White Palace

    White Palace

    6.418 1990 HD

    Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

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  • 1993
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    Born Yesterday

    Born Yesterday

    5.279 1993 HD

    A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up to the level of his peers. He fears that the showgirl's lack of etiquette may damage his own social reputation and tries to change her — but fails to realise that her enhanced eloquence will empower her to voice her own strong opinions.

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  • 2024
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    City of Dreams

    City of Dreams

    6.3 2024 HD

    A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA.

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  • 2022
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    Presencias

    Presencias

    6.706 2022 HD

    A man returns to his father's cabin where he spent a good part of his childhood and where his younger sister drowned.

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  • 2007
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    Fraude: México 2006

    Fraude: México 2006

    6.2 2007 HD

    This is a documentary about the mexican presidential election in july 2th 2006, in which the left candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accused fraud against him and the people. This is the story of their fight for democracy.

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  • 2005
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    Innocent Voices

    Innocent Voices

    8.148 2005 HD

    A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

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  • 2012
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    The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

    The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

    7.084 2012 HD

    In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

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  • 1984
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    Motel

    Motel

    4.5 1984 HD

    The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.

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  • 1987
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    Gaby: A True Story

    Gaby: A True Story

    6.25 1987 HD

    The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

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  • 1987
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    Gaby: A True Story

    Gaby: A True Story

    6.25 1987 HD

    The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

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  • 1987
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    Gaby: A True Story

    Gaby: A True Story

    6.25 1987 HD

    The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

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  • 2000
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    Amores Perros

    Amores Perros

    7.633 2000 HD

    A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

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  • 2006
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    ¿Quién es el Señor López?

    ¿Quién es el Señor López?

    5 2006 HD

    A documentary on Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's campaign to be president of Mexico in 2006 and the country's election on July 2, where ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon appeared to eke out a victory. Lopez Obrador challenged the legitimacy of the vote before Mexico's top electoral court, urging his supporters to dig in for what could be years of protest.

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  • 2005
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    Innocent Voices

    Innocent Voices

    8.148 2005 HD

    A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

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  • 1980
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    El Secreto

    El Secreto

    5 1980 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1983
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    Mundo mágico

    Mundo mágico

    4.8 1983 HD

    Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

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  • 1970
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    Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde

    Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde

    1 1970 HD

    Follows the true-life story of Cuban exile turned social advocate, Alina Fernandez, whose birth was the result of the tryst between Revuelta and Castro. Revuelta sacrificed her and her physician husband’s personal belongings and finances to help fund the start of the communist revolution.

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  • 1989
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    The Edge

    The Edge

    2 1989 HD

    A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Each episode is introduced by a mysterious figure known as The Watcher (Barry Sattels), who arrives on the scene just as strange things being to happen - pushing men and women in crisis over the edge and into bizarre, unexpected actions.

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  • 1982
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    El día en que vienen los muertos

    El día en que vienen los muertos

    1 1982 HD

    Under the water of the dam Miguel Alemán rest the remains of the ancestors of the Mazatec people of San José Independencia and its surroundings.

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  • 1982
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    El día en que vienen los muertos

    El día en que vienen los muertos

    1 1982 HD

    Under the water of the dam Miguel Alemán rest the remains of the ancestors of the Mazatec people of San José Independencia and its surroundings.

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  • 2022
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    Léemelo

    Léemelo

    1 2022 HD

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  • 1997
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    Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

    Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

    5.5 1997 HD

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