亨利·维尼尔执导的一部强调暴力场面的动作片。故事讲述1746年，一名反西班牙殖民**的墨西哥人为了躲避**逮捕而逃至一偏僻小村落，却被当地村民误认为是牧师，而他也就将计就计，率领村民抵抗来犯的印第安暴徒。安东尼．奎因在此片的演出很落力，然而故事内容本身则乏善可陈。
16世纪，一个无名的炼金师为求得永生，制造了名为“魔鬼银爪（Cronos）”的装置。它可延续人的生命，令其恢复青春活力，却也要求人类付出相应的代价。几经辗转，收藏着魔鬼银爪的雕像落入善良的古董商人耶稣·格里斯（Federico Luppi 饰）的手中。他偶然发现这个装置 及其隐藏的秘密，于是对其产生依赖，任凭魔鬼银爪将他变成为了青春而嗜血的怪物。另一方面，身体羸弱的富商安吉拉·迪拉·加迪亚（Ron Perlman 饰）得知魔鬼银爪在耶稣的手中，于是千方百计要将它弄到手，为此不惜大开杀戒……
本片为导演吉尔莫·德尔·托罗（Guillermo del Toro）的长片处女作，并荣获1993年墨西哥Ariel奖金奖和最佳男主角、最佳导演、最佳处女作、最佳原创故事、最佳制作、最佳编剧和最佳特效等多个奖项。
Federico works for a Mexican company and is sent into the jungle to find the area that produces the tree from which cortisone is obtained. Lost in the jungle, Federico finally arrives to an inhabited spot beside a waterfall. He is met with hostility by Santos, an embittered man who has turned his back on the world. Santos severs the footbridge and Federico plummets into the riv...
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
Arturo Ripstein (born on December 13, 1943 in Mexico City) i...
