Bearing subtle but uncanny structural similarities to American mob movies like "The Godfather" and "Goodfellas," Mexico's highest grossing homegrown film of all time is a substantive parable about an ...

Based on a 19th century Portuguese novel, "O Crime do Padre Amaro," written by Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz, "The Crime of Padre Amaro," is a melodramatic Mexican film about a young priest who enters a ...

Executives at Samuel Goldwyn Films, which just acquired for U.S. distribution the Mexican film “El Crimen del Padre Amaro” (The Crime of Father Amaro), say they are not afraid of any controversy the ...

Twenty years after making the Oscar-nominated box office hit “The Crime of Padre Amaro” in 2002, Mexican director Carlos Carrera and producer Daniel Birman Ripstein are teaming up once more for ...

"EL CRIMEN del Padre Amaro" works itself into a lather of passion, anguish and tragedy, but there's more to this Mexican movie than straight soap opera. There is enough incendiary content here to ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) As if the PR staff at the Vatican weren’t overworked already, ...

The title of "El Crimen de Padre Amaro" (The Crime of Father Amaro), a scathing indictment of the Catholic Church in Mexico, seems to ring with irony at first. Surely the sin of the flesh committed by ...

The title character, a young Mexican priest being groomed for bigger things (Gael Garcia Bernal), is assigned to a small parish in Los Reyes, where he discovers that spiritual power corrupts ...

Don't be fooled by its arthouse disguise and the hype it generated south of the border. "El Crimen del Padre Amaro" is little more than a lurid melodrama that strains to provoke with some overheated ...