Alfonso Arau Biography
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004).
He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
Show More
Alfonso Arau Movies
Alfonso Arau TV Shows
Trending Celebrities
Movie and TV Reviews
Top Movies
Become a better you.
Share in the beauty of togetherness.
Join the family.
What happens behind these walls will change everything.
Like justice, it existed in theory.
Top Series
Same luxury. New reservations.
There's more to work than life.
Reacher's back.
We hear the wilderness and it hears us.
From long shot to big shot.