Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 film directed by Sam Peckinpah.

Originally based on an idea brought to Peckinpah during the making of The Wild Bunch, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was shot on a very low budget in Mexico following the failure of Peckinpah's 1973 Western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. It is widely considered the director's darkest and most personal film. Peckinpah himself claimed that it was the only film he ever made which was released exactly as he had intended it. Warren Oates, an actor who had frequently worked with Peckinpah, stars as Bennie, an American piano player living the low life in a Mexican brothel. Bennie stakes everything on a bounty set by a Mexican cacique on the head of Alfredo Garcia, the man who impregnated his daughter.

The film was universally panned when it was released in 1974 and went on to be a box office flop. In the ensuing years, it has built a considerable cult following, maintaining a 77% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes with an 82% fresh user rating me_the_head_of_alfredo_garcia/reviews_users.php" target="_blank">Alfredo Garcia at Rotten Tomatoes Although some claim that it is one of the worst films ever made, including critic Michael Medved, others consider it to be one of the greatest films of all time, including _Roger Ebert ). The film's dark humor and satirical take on the 1970s clichés of the road movie and the buddy movie (Oates spends much of the film driving around Mexico talking to a severed head, and two of the main characters are a pair of gay hitmen who wear expensive business suits while driving a station wagon around the Mexican badlands) have led some to see the film as an early anticipation of the surreal, violence-ridden black humor of directors like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

It was widely known during and after production that Warren Oates' performance as Bennie was an imitation of Peckinpah himself. Oates went so far as to don the director's own clothes and sunglasses to play the part. Co-writer Gordon Dawson has also admitted that he based Bennie's character largely on Peckinpah.

The film is the subject of a running joke on the BBC Radio 4 programme I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, and a pun on its name will invariably be given by Graeme Garden during a themed film club round.

A family scandal causes a wealthy and powerful Mexican rancher to make the pronouncement--'Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!' Two of the bounty-hunters thus dispatched encounter a local piano-player in their hunt for information. The piano-player does a little investigating on his own and finds out that his girlfriend knows of Garcia's death and last resting place. Thinking that he can make some easy money and gain financial security for he and his (now) fiancée, they set off on this goal. Of course, this quest only brings him untold misery, in the form of trademark Peckinpah violence. Written by Tad Dibbern