The Crime of Padre Amaro takes viewers into the world of a young priest in rural Mexico. Released in 2002, the movie explores the tensions between idealism and the realities of life within the church ...

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 ...

“El Crimen del Padre Amaro,” Carlos Carrera’s picture about a young priest who has an affair with a 16-year-old girl in the small Mexican parish to which he has been assigned, caused a huge flap when ...

The Catholic Church can’t catch a break. Sex scandals and cover-up charges have rocked its very foundations in the past year, testing the faith of its devout. And now, the latest black eye comes from ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Whoever called The Crime of Padre Almaro “one of the most controversial films ever made” doesn’t get out much. Yes, it can truly ...

MORELIA, Mexico — 14 years after it stirred controversy and broke box office records in Mexico, Carlos Carrera’s priest-scandal drama “El Crimen del Pedro Amaro” (“The Crime of Father Amaro”) is set ...

On the eve of the Mexico City premier of El Crimen del Padre Amaro, a highly indignant priest named Julián Martínez bared his soul to the national press. “I’ve told people thousands of times not to go ...

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 ...

Dir. Carlos Carrera; writ. Jose Maria Eça de Queiróz (novel), Vicente Leñero; feat. Gael García Bernal, Sancho Gracia, Ana Claudía Talancón, Angélica Aragón, Luisa Huertas, Damián Alcazár (R) During a ...

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 ...

El Crimen del Padre AmaroIt was controversial, and a big hit, in its native Mexico, but arriving in the year of our own Catholic scandals, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, a drama about a young priest who ...

Recently ordained a priest, 24-year-old Father Amaro is sent to a small parish church in Los Reyes, Mexico to assist the aging Father Benito in his daily work. Benito–for years a fixture in the church ...