El Mariachi

Name: El Mariachi
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Western
Released: 1993-02-22
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 6.743

★ 6,7 /10 (1,309 Votes)

1993 ES 81 min

Overview

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.

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Release date

22/02/1993

Votes

1,309

Popularity

5.0

With a guitar in his hand and a price on his head, he wasn't looking for trouble. But trouble came looking for him.

Genres

Action Crime Thriller Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

81 min

Budget

$7,225

Revenue

$2,040,920

Carlos Gallardo

El Mariachi

Consuelo Gómez

Domino

Jaime de Hoyos

Bigotón

Peter Marquardt

Mauricio

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Reinol Martinez

Azul

Ramiro Gómez

Cantinero

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Jesús López

Viejo Clerk

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Luis Baró

Domino's Assistant

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Oscar Fabila

The Boy

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Poncho Ramon

Azul's Rat

Fernando Martinez

Azul's Rat

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Manuel Acosta

Bodyguard

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Walter Vargas

Prisoner

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Roberto Martinez

Prisoner

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Virgen Delgado

Female Bodyguard

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Juanita Vargas

Female Bodyguard

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Yolanda Puga

Female Bodyguard

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Jaime Rodriguez

Moco's Man

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Luis Cadena

Moco's Man

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Afredo Martínez

Moco's Man

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Gerardo Jaquez

Moco's Man

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Mario Mata

Moco's Man

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Daniel Delgado

Moco's Man

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Rosendo Ortiz

Moco's Man

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Cesar Cadena

Moco's Man

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Jose Salinas

Moco's Man

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Robert Santoyo

Moco's Man

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Sabas Perez

Moco's Man

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Guadenico Martin

Moco's Man

Juan Garcia

Moco's Man

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Maximo Martin

Moco's Man

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DiFonso Quezada

Moco's Man

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Manuel Vejor

Moco's Man

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Alfredo Cisneros

Keyboardist

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Alejandro Peña

Piña / Loco

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Israel Reyes

Taco

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Clara Scott

Moco's Manicurist

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María Castillo

Jail Guard

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Samuel Quiroz

Jail Guard

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Roberto Delgado

Jail Guard

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Fermin Barron

School Bus Driver

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Tito Tortuga

La Tortuga

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Filmed in 1992 and being Robert Rodriquez’s film debut this is a film about a guitar player whom walk into town at the same time a gangster shoots up some dudes in a bar wearing same clothes so at first it’s a case of Mistaken identity but then I believe the Mariachi guy just kind of falls into the role of the renegade assassin that takes out the man running the streets or so he thinks... falling in love with the bosses girl... I thought this film was poetic, romantic and tragic all at the same time... I got a kick out of a scene where the dude’s in Domino’s tub as she holds a gun on him and …

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El Mariachi (1992) Directed by Robert Rodriguez There's a romantic notion in cinema that constraints breed creativity, that necessity mothers invention, that you don't need a Hollywood budget to tell a compelling story. Most of the time, this is wishful thinking offered by people who've never tried to shoot a feature film with pocket change and borrowed equipment. Then there's El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez's legendary debut, made for approximately seven thousand dollars, which proves that sometimes the romantic notion is absolutely true. The premise is elegantly simple: a wandering ma…

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