Peter Marquardt

Desperado -- This sexy sequel to EL MARIACHI follows a mysterious guitar player (Antonio Banderas) as he seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.

Winner of the Audience Award at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, El Mariachi tells the story of a young mariachi (Carlos Gallardo), or itinerant musician, who arrives in a Mexican border town looking for work. He is dressed in black and carries a guitar case; a killer arrives in the same town on the same day, dressed the same way-only the hitman's identical guitar case is filled with weapons. A case of mistaken identity ensues, and soon the easygoing mariachi is thrust into the middle of someone else's blood feud, and people start shooting at him. When the sexy bar owner (Consuelo Gomez) who befriends him turns out to be the object of the local warlord's unrequited lust, the mariachi finds himself in a whole heap of trouble that will require a lot of courage, luck and bullets to get out of.

The black-garbed, guitar-toting Mariachi plunges headlong into the dark underworld of a Mexican border town ruled by the drug lord Bucho.

This sexy sequel to EL MARIACHI follows a mysterious guitar player (Antonio Banderas) as he seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.

Antonio Banderas, Joaquim De Almeida, Salma Hayek, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi and Quentin Tarantino star in this stylish shoot-'em-up described as a south-of-the-border PULP FICTION. Director Robert Rodriguez follows up his legendary debut film, EL MARIACHI, with this sexy sequel about a mysterious guitar player (Banderas) searching for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.

Spanish, subtitled in English. In a small border town a musician and an assassin are trapped in a drama of violence, tragedy and passion.

Kind-spirited guitarist El Mariachi wanders into a small mob-run town, guitar case in hand. It so happens that the local criminal element is awaiting the arrival of vicious hit man Azul, who is well known for carrying his weapons in...a guitar case.