Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends.

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")

In 2003, a group of Ghanaian filmmakers attempts to create their own version of "The Blair Witch Project" by invoking an African vampire spirit, leading to a horrific massacre. Fast forward to 2023, Julio and his team are determined to replicate the experiment, hoping to capture the supernatural on film—but as they delve deeper, they risk unleashing a darkness far beyond their control.

Mexican feature film

Zorro-type horseman with occult powers faces off against all metaphysical evils.

Viruta and Capulina, magicians working in a theater where the actors delegate dishonest ratchets, is assassinated by two stagehands to remove payroll and left her body in the clubhouse Cristas singer Virutas girlfriend. He and Capulina move the body in a trunk to utility room but the trunk is base off and the body is in the Viruta's room. A lush Chasing Coquis showgirl girlfriend Capulina, stains of red paint and falls asleep, believing him dead detectives accuse Capulina and Viruta of murder.

Biographical documentary short film about the life and work of the Mexican printmaker Leopoldo Méndez.

Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a big company, who must put a time bomb aboard the airplane while keeping the money. Waiting for the plan to develop, Tito enjoys the company of the North American starlet stripper Rita, but he seduces a Mexican chorus girl, and the two women eventually fight over him. What seemed to be a faultless plan starts going wrong. A scavenger takes the money without knowing, and Carlos feels remorse for having placed the bomb aboard the jet flight, and is going to confess his crime. Tito is abandoned by his lover, locates the money and takes it back, locates Carlos and kills him. Even then, he will find crime does not pay.

For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.

Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which finally comes true when they are contracted to serve as musical background for strippers of a second class cabaret. In case i never see you again, is a movie about life, death, melancholy and the quest for happiness.

Nico drives her car with difficulty, next to her is the corpse of her sister. Nico crashes the car and she falls in a deep comma. When she wakes up 20 years later, she feels like just before the moment of the guilt, like a misled Minotaur crossing its own labyrinth.

Two old friends meet after years of not seeing each other: Miguel, a prisoner who is about to be killed by a troop of the Mexican Revolution; and Luciano, the General of the troop and the man tasked with commanding Miguel’s execution.

Felipe wishes to rediscover himself through Santiago. Santiago does not realize that he never ends up knowing someone and will discover what that someone is capable of doing.

Jorge Gomez gangster film.

Bea lives in a bunker that her father built to save her from the apocalypse that annihilated humanity. Her only company is an AI. Bea's certainties will crumble when she discovers that the bunker is being stalked by something...or someone.

Developmentally-challenged guy and is caretaker get drafted into he police force and take part in the manhunt for a bank robber.

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

Carlos and Laura, two real estate agents hiding terrible secrets, are about to close the deal of a lifetime—until it drags them into a nightmare of pain, guilt, and death.

Juan Carlos Rulfo's father used to send him postcards from the places he visited. 27 years after his father passed away, Juan Carlos, son of the author of Pedro Páramo, decides to film those places his father talked and wrote him about.

A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

Florian, a cheerful explorer of the multiverse, spends his life traveling through endless worlds in search of things to love. Guided by a magical door, he discovers impossible creatures, breathtaking landscapes, and wonders beyond imagination. But when he finds a world more beautiful than any he has ever seen, Florian realizes that the greatest adventure isn’t discovering new places, it’s choosing to stay, and becoming part of the love he found there.

The tragic romance between a woman with a dubious past and a young thief who reforms his life for love.

Based on careful research, this documentary touches on the most striking aspects of Foxilandia, the management of President Vicente Fox, and dissects this national tragicomedy from the political, economic and social points of view.

El Pueblo Del Sol captures not only the visual delights of Mexico today, but also grasps the day-to-day life of a people in a land filled with future promise. One is mesmerized by rich images of such natural beauties as the Isla Contoy in the Caribbean, Copper Canyon in the Chihuahua Sierra, the Paricutin Volcano, and Ensenada's Bay. Short IMAX documentary.

Ana and Leo, are marked since childhood by a sudden event: the suicide of their father. Separately, they take life as they can, without removing the feeling that anything can become as disposable as plastic.

Short film commissioned by CineDifusión SEP as part of the "Jornadas Casals" music program, centering on the Spanish cellist and, in this case, illustrating the music of Claude Debussy.

From millions of photos, posters, videos, t-shirts, postcards, records, books, phrases, testimonies, Che watches over us. Beyond all paraphernalia, he returns. Irreverent, mocking, stubborn - morally stubborn - Che will always be the subject of debate. The exclusive teleSUR series “Ernesto Guevara, also known as 'Che'”, aims to address the figure of Ernesto Guevara as it has never been told before. Conversing with the characters who were with him in important moments, visiting the real settings where Che spent his life.

Mr. Gaspar's shameless family leads a licentious life: he has sex with a friend's son, his wife and daughter have an affair with an employee, and his son is a drug addict. However, a shocking event changes the course of their lives forever.

Three young drug addicts are admitted into rehab, oblivious to the fact that the clinic is actually the hideout of a gang of drug dealers.

Mexican feature film

Elver is an indigenous man who arrives in the capital in search of opportunities and by a twist of fate comes to work at Don Toribio's residence, where the women discover his enormous sexual attractiveness.

Twin brothers, one of them a bandit, in Mexican California.

A series of visual haikus that reflect the sexually-charged and politically heated times.

Daniel is a young man suffering from low selfesteem, who is incapable of defending himself from the abuses of employers and of society in general. He is medicated with antidepressants to make his monotonous life more bearable; however, far from helping him, the medication worsens hiscondition with hallucinations and psychotic thoughts of vengeance that lead him to a state of total confusion.

A renowned journalist faces a crisis when he fails to protect his new home from a potential intruder, shattering his sense of masculinity. Struggling with shame and desperate to reclaim his manhood, his efforts to rectify the situation threaten to undermine the happiness of his recent move with his girlfriend and strain his relationship with his son.

Caro and Sofía get ready for a weekend with their families and the surprise of a marriage proposal that could go very wrong.

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

Subsistance-farmer emigrates to the city in search of opportunity, loses contact with his wife and children.

Mexican feature film

Second film in the Tigres del ring series.

Mexican feature film

Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait.

Paco Ignacio Taibo II brings his book trilogy to life, highlighting Mexico's history in 1854-1867, a period he considers foundational to the country.

An interesting talk with Dr. Eusebio Rubio-Aurioles, about the current state of psychotherapy.

Chema, is an introvert with an analytical mind whereas Nacho is an extrovert with tons of charisma. They want to form a band, but have no idea how to do it. They have made demos but nobody likes them, not even themselves. Nacho's parents are constantly comparing him to his brother, and they pressure him to be more like him. Chema is forced to sing in the church choir. But one day they discover that that Penny, their music teacher, has a past which might help them become a better band. They decide they must convince her to help them. They ask Ana, Mica and Gonzalez to join them and are now ready for Penny's lessons. Chema will seek to find his own voice and face his fears while Nacho will make an effort to take the important things in life more seriously.

A shortfilm by Julian Hernandez