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 ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY — Carlos Carrera’s “El Crimen del Padre Amaro” (The Crime of Father Amaro) has broken B.O. records for a local production in Mexico. Pic, which opened Aug. 16, has grossed $13.6 million in ...

"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 ...

As if the PR staff at the Vatican weren’t overworked already, here comes the American release of El Crimen del Padre Amaro, a film with enough blasphemous scenes involving Catholic iconography to make ...

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 ...

As bad omens go, getting robbed while traveling to start a new life in a new town ranks among the worst. But that doesn't seem to faze Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También), the protagonist of El ...

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 ...