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- DirectorJorge BoladoStarsMartin LaSalleRobert FrankPhilipe de Saint PhalleA small group of Mexican filmmakers journeys to the Scottish countryside.
- DirectorRubén GámezStarsJosé CastilloManuel GaitánPilar IslasAn irreverent essay, unified only by the author's unique voice, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRoberto CoboFernando SolerLucha VillaFamily honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón".
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsErnesto Gómez CruzBlanca GuerraAlejandro ParodiPoor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
- DirectorBusi CortésStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Dolores BeristáinDiana BrachoAn elder woman (Romelia), her daughter and her grandchildren take a few days on holidays to visit a small town outside the city. The town makes Romelia melancholy and her daughter wants to find out about the mystery of her unknown father.
- DirectorJosé BuilMarisa SistachStarsJosé Buil BelenguerRemedios Güemes de BuilJulio Buil GüemesFamily movies, shot with a 9.5 mm Pathé Baby camera, let us know traditions, customs, joys and sorrows of a Mexican family from the 1920s to the 1950s.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaRafael InclánLuis Felipe TovarTwo men jump out from behind some cacti and beat a man over the head with a rock. They then take the body to the dead man's hut, and sit with his body for the night while they talk, complain and dance. Later at the police station, two women come to claim the body--a bitter, venomous wife and a younger prettier women. They fight and scrap until one of them get the responsibility for the body. Later we find out why the self-titled "King of Baseball" was killed.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela IndaA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoPina PellicerEnrique LuceroPoor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
- DirectorJorge FonsStarsHéctor BonillaMaría RojoJorge FegánA Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
- DirectorLuis EstradaStarsDamián AlcázarJoaquín CosioErnesto Gómez CruzAfter being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
- DirectorBeto GómezStarsDaniel GuzmánRafael VelascoKandido UrangaInaki is a young man living in Spain who has joined up with an elderly man to become a petty thief. A routine robbery goes awry when the old man dies unexpectedly, and Inaki finds himself on the run. He returns to Mexico to hide out for a while in the rooming house where his father Patxi lives with his brother, El Caiman; the house is run by an upbeat drag queen named Aunt Carmen. Inaki begins dating Carmen's niece, which fuels Carmen's hopes that the young man will become a doctor. But Patxi and Caiman are wise to the boys past, and soon he finds himself moving once again toward crime.
- DirectorBeto GómezStarsGerardo TaracenaMaría Elisa CamargoLudwika PaletaChuyin Venegas and Cornelio Barraza were the greatest stars of popular music and cinema in the 80's and 90's. After decades of success as "Los Jilgueros de Rosarito", they went their separate ways; but their story was far from over.
- DirectorJulián HernándezStarsJuan Carlos OrtuñoJuan Carlos TorresSalvador AlvarezGerardo, a 17-year old guy has just finished his relationship with Bruno and starts wandering hopeless through the streets of the city. In his wandering he's tortured by images: each masculine body he sees reminds him of his lover. Gerardo is determined to keep what's left of his dying love. The only comfort he has is a letter that Bruno left him with his boss.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsArcelia RamírezPatricia Reyes SpíndolaLuis Felipe TovarBased on the Greek tragedy MEDEA, this is a present day Mexican version, set in the seediest possible milieu of Mexico City. A woman abandoned by her husband, is thrown out of her apartment by her landlord - who is also her husband's new father-in-law. She is also about to lose custody of her two children to her husband, a low-life, second-rate boxer and opportunist. With the help of her godmother, she plans to take revenge on her husband.
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsClaudio BrookDavid SilvaTina RomeroAfter the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsCristina FerrareDavid YoungJohn CarradineAn American artist with a penchant for drinking blood begins seducing and dispatching residents of a small fishing town in Mexico.
- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsAlejandro FerretisMagdalena FloresYolanda VillaA painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
- DirectorFernando EimbckeStarsDiego CatañoHector HerreraDaniela ValentineA story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.
- DirectorFernando EimbckeStarsDiego CatañoDaniel MirandaEnrique ArreolaFlama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery. The electricity company, Rita, the neighbor, Ulises, a pizza deliveryman, eleven seconds, the Real Madrid-Manchester game, some chocolate brownies and a horrible painting of ducks, all combine to break the harmony of what promised to be a placid Sunday, and reveal issues such as the parents' divorce, loneliness, the confusion between adolescent love and friendship, as well as frustration in adult life. "Temporada de Patos" is a movie that shows that, when the lights go off, we can see the stars.
- DirectorRodrigo PláStarsDaniel Giménez CachoDaniel TovarAlan ChávezResidents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
- DirectorRigoberto PérezcanoStarsHarold TorresAlicia LagunaSonia CouohAndres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with those he meets.
- DirectorDana RotbergStarsGabriela CanudasÁlvaro GuerreroAlberto EstrellaOtilia is a sensual young girl with an ideal body whose face is marred by an enormous mole. As a result, Otilia grows up friendless, except for the companionship of Melquiades, a young man employed by her family. Rich landowner Don Isaac arranges for Otilia's marriage to the local police chief, Isidro. A cruel and venal man, Isidro infects his young wife with a venereal disease that renders her sterile...
- DirectorRicardo BenetStarsDavid Aarón EstradaMayahuel del MonteMartín PalomaresMartin sets out from his village to Mexico City, where he looks to save his family from their predetermined existence.
- DirectorBenito AlazrakiStarsBeatriz FloresJuan de la CruzJuan CanoMexican and Latin-American classic. Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas, Nuestra Señora, El Tuerto and La Potranca. In El Tuerto, crosseyed boy is made fun of by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.
- DirectorNicolás Echevarría
- DirectorIgnacio OrtizStarsArturo RíosLuisa HuertasMiguel SantanaA man who travels back to the house of his father, grandfather and backwards.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsErnesto AlonsoMiroslavaRita MacedoThe delirious journey of a mentally disordered man, who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.
- DirectorFrancisco AthiéStarsRoberto SosaEsperanza MozoLucha VillaLolo (nickname for Dolores, used in Mexico as feminine or masculine name) is an outcast boy who lives in the suburbs of Mexico City. He accidentally kills the local moneylender (an old woman) when trying to rob his mother's golden watch (that she pawned). Lolo is then hunted and blackmailed by everybody but his girlfriend. The dialogs are in a very particular Mexico City slang.
- DirectorMarcela Fernández ViolanteStarsPatricia AspíllagaJorge RussekJuan FerraraEl movimiento cristero, durante la Guerra Cristera en 1926 en Mexico.
- DirectorEmilio Gómez MurielFred ZinnemannStarsSilvio HernándezDavid Valle GonzálezRafael HinojosaA story of burgeoning labor rights amongst poor fishermen in a small village in Mexico.
- DirectorFrancisco VargasStarsÁngel TaviraGerardo TaracenaDagoberto GamaIn an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson. Can the old man ferry out the ammunition in his violin case under the soldiers' nose?
- DirectorCarlos CarreraIn a subway station, a man watch a girl acting strange. He realizes that she may be attempting to commit suicide and tries to stop her, but the girl accuses him of being a molester.
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsToshirô MifuneColumba DomínguezFlor SilvestreAnimas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens. Animas has a loyal wife, but cheats on her and gambles away every cent they raise. Chances arise for Animas to turn over a new leaf and even hope realistically for the honor of mayordomio. But will Animas behave responsibly enough to take advantage of these opportunities?
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé LegarretaA mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsAlfonso ArauPancho CórdovaVirma GonzálezA humble peasant is mistaken by a federal government inspector in a small town.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsJorge LukeDiana BrachoClaudio BrookA gripping, shocking story of the Spanish Inquisition hunting Jews, believed to be the cause of a plague spreading in 16th century colonial Mexico. A monk reports a family practicing Jewish burial rites bringing devastating consequences.
- DirectorAlberto MariscalStarsClaudio BrookPatricia AspíllagaLucy GallardoHenrik is admired by his children as a war hero. One night he brings his secretary Anna Maria to his home. He tells of the horrors of the war, that his country was left in ruins and that Mexico opened the doors to a new life.
- DirectorJosé Luis García AgrazStarsEduardo PalomoRebecca JonesAlejandro ParodiA Man inherits a boat, and then he embarks on the quest for an old spanish shipwreck.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsJulio AldamaDacia GonzálezTito JuncoAurelio is a shark fisherman who works on the coast of Tabasco, Mexico. He works hard and sends money to his wife and children, who live in Mexico City. Although he misses his family, he's rather happy on the coat; he even has a romance with a native girl. One day he decides to return to Mexico City, where his brother-in-law is waiting to invite him to join his business.
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsGermán ValdésÓscar PulidoTongoleleTin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresStarsGermán ValdésAlicia CaroAndrés SolerNew in the city, Tin Tan's distant relatives abuse his good nature and have him work for them as a servant, until his godfather intervenes. A comic take on Cinderella.
- DirectorJorge FonsStarsIgnacio López TarsoJaime FernándezJosé AlonsoA watchman is murdered at a building site. The film narrates several versions of the people involved. Based on the Vicente Lenero novel.
- DirectorSergio OlhovichStarsManuel OjedaDiana BrachoDelia CasanovaA writer finds himself amid a spiral of violence, alcohol and his leftist ideologies, eventually being locked down in an asylum, where he leads a rebellion.
- DirectorJuan Carlos RulfoStarsJuan José ArreolaManuel CosíoClara Aparicio de RulfoJuan Carlos Rulfo, the son of the acclaimed Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo (1917 - 1986), travels to the plains of Jalisco in search of his father.
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsAna Patricia RojoElsa María GutiérrezLeonor LlausásA 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsTamara GarinaSergio KleinerDiana MariscalFando and his partially-paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsDaniel GélinYolanda VarelaNino del ArcoNot realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guard.
- DirectorJulio Hernández CordónStarsDiego CalvaEduardo Eliseo MartinezShvasti CalderónIn a contemporary Mexico City, two skating lovers develop their relationship at the same time as they try to carry on business with drug mafia.
- DirectorIsaac-Pierre RacineAgustí VillarongaLydia ZimmermannStarsDaniel Giménez CachoCarmen BeatoZóltán JózanAro Tolbukhin is a hungarian inmigrant that sets fire to seven people in an infirmary in a Mission in Guatemala, the movie traces back to see what made him do it, from his arrival in Guatemala to his childhood in Hungary.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsJosé AlonsoMaría RojoAna Ofelia MurguíaA woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend (Rojo). This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. One day, the mother gets sick and falls into a coma. Her son arrives but she is unconscious. He has a brief but passionate affair with her mother's friend and then disappears, as quickly as he came back from the sea.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresStarsGermán ValdésSilvia PinalMarcelo ChávezA small-time con artist gets more for what he bargained for when one of his would-be victims falls in love with him.
- DirectorEnrique RosasStarsJoaquín CossJuan de HomsManuel de los RíosA gang terrorize Mexico City's high society in 1915. Murder, kidnapping and robbery are their trademarks. One police inspector (Cabrera) follows the gang's crimes and eventually sends them to jail.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsFederico LuppiRon PerlmanClaudio BrookA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
- DirectorMitl ValdezStarsRigoberto CarmonaCarlos Esteban ChávezUriel ChávezDifferent characters and situations taken from the narrative work of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo come together in this film. After arriving in Comala, Juan Preciado stays at the home of a couple of incestuous brothers; Juvencio Nava flees from various men who are pursuing him for the alleged murder, many years ago, of Colonel Guadalupe Terreros; Finally, two brothers-in-law take Natalia's dying husband to Talpa in the hope that the virgin will work a miracle and cure him.
- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsAbel SalazarAriadne WelterCarmen MontejoA pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next door neighbor may be involved.
- DirectorRogelio A. GonzálezStarsArturo de CórdovaAmparo RivellesElda PeraltaA taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after fifteen years of hellish marriage.
- DirectorJuan IbáñezStarsJulissaEnrique Álvarez FélixÓscar ChávezA rich, aristocratic engaged couple (Julissa, Enrique Alvarez Felix) abandons a dinner party to enjoy a night on the town with an urban gang known as Los Caifanes.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalJacqueline AndereEnrique RambalThe guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
- DirectorNicolás EchevarríaStarsJuan DiegoDaniel Giménez CachoRoberto SosaA handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsLilia PradoCarlos NavarroFernando SotoConfronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin".
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaDelia CasanovaMarta AuraLuz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as Purgatory: it's only one step to reach Heaven.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoLucha VillaNarciso BusquetsA poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
- DirectorLeobardo López AretcheStarsRolando de CastroMagda VizcaínoA documentary on the student movement in Mexico, 1968, made by film students
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsPedro InfanteBlanca Estela PavónMaría Eugenia LlamasThis is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsArturo de CórdovaDelia GarcésAurora WalkerA husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresStarsGermán ValdésRosita QuintanaNelly MontielTin Tan plays a broke man who is trying to put on a musical to pay his debts.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsHéctor BonillaMaría RojoArmando MartínMaria is on a business trip, and during a storm her car cracks up in the middle of the highway. She is picked up by a mental hospital's bus that takes her there but she cannot get out because everyone thinks she is mentally ill.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsArturo MezaMarco TreviñoGuadalupe Del ToroRodolfo ( Marco Treviño ) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon ( Arturo Meza ). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, he quickly asks modern and open-mind Olga ( Letícia Lupercio ) to become his wife. Ramon is heart-broken, but Dona Herlinda ( Guadalupe Del Toro ) has the final solution to make everybody happy: She asks Ramon to live with her, near by Rodolfo and Olga. Everybody together forever.
- DirectorMarisa SistachStarsXimena AyalaNancy GutiérrezArcelia RamírezThe history of friendship of two females teenagers and how it's cracked up by misinformation about sexual education and violence against women.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsManolo FábregasLucha VillaHéctor SuárezA mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsClaudio BrookRita MacedoArturo BeristáinThe story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsHéctor BonillaManuel OjedaRodolfo Chávez MartínezTwo young schoolboys in a Mexican town cut class to go to a matinee. The boys get involved with a gang of thieves and get caught up in the fun, but once the gang leaves, loyalties shift, leaving the two boys in conflicting positions.
- DirectorGabriel RetesStarsGabriel RetesHéctor BonillaLourdes ElizarrarásA dark comedy about the past; the present and the future. A young Mexican journalist falls into a coma and awakes twenty years later to find himself in a very different future than he would have imagined. Mystery of nature or science?
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsJulio AldamaNorma AngélicaAndrés SolerA man becomes a thief out of desperation. If his identity becomes known, his neighbors might lynch him. The only friendly face in town is the local priest.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsPedro ArmendárizAnita BlanchRebeca IturbideMarcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
- DirectorServando GonzálezStarsJosé Elías MorenoDavid ReynosoJorge Martínez de HoyosA man recently estranged from his wife is in charge of setting a new rail line across the desert in difficult conditions. Things are further complicated when his 'sheltered' son arrives wanting to reconnect.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsDolores Del RíoPedro ArmendárizAlberto GalánIn Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. María Candelaria is segregated for being a prostitute's child and the couple faces the greed of Mr. Damian, the town's shop owner who secretly desires María. When María falls sick with Malaria, Lorenzo Rafael steals a quinine bottle from Damian's shop, unleashing tragedy for the lovers.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA series of stories with old thieves. Framed portraits in Mexico City from the 1970s and 1980s. From the corners of poverty and the prowess of being able to steal "honestly", a series of characters that make the old way of stealing endearing