Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.

El Garrincha is a thief who wants to conquer Magaly, a woman capable of awakening the darkest desires of a man, but her father has other plans for her.

Mexican feature film

Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.

Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen children. Marcelo gladly serves Valentin until he realizes that he is poor and throws him out of the house. By a suggestion Sirenia, Marcelo employs Valentin as a servant and exploits it mercilessly. But with the help of Andres, the fate of Valentin takes an unexpected turn.

Maggie, a psychologist haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her girlfriend, returns to a secluded coastal town in Mexico seeking answers. As she delves deeper, the seemingly tranquil village reveals a chilling secret lurking beneath its surface—one that threatens to consume her in a nightmare she cannot escape.

After taking a blood test, Andro begins to be stalked by an entity whose intentions are not good.

A man in the middle of the night is unable to act while witnessing the moment in which someone else conquer the woman he desires, defeated returns home to face himself.

L. M. Guerra, Knight of the University of Oxford; he tries to save our world, spreading the secrets that have been revealed to him.

The singing group "Garibaldi" go to Ixtapa.

Roberta is a normal teenaged girl - except for the fact that she suffers from a rare deformity. Therefore her father, a gifted surgeon, hides her in his house. He creates for her a false reality which makes her believe that all people are deformed. To achieve this, he resorts to extreme measures.

The painful growing pains of an adolescent boy in a middle-class family in Mexico City. Surrounded by violence and besieged by sexual desire and deep feelings of guilt and shame, Augusto tries to make his way in the oppressive worlds of his home, school and chaotic streets of Mexico City.

Virginia and her classmates from film school go to “Teques” to shoot a school assignment. There, a masked assassin awaits. They discover the cinematographic origin of this brutal murderer while he hunts them one by one. Virginia will fight to survive and tell the story.

Helena, a woman in her early 40's, is obsessed with getting pregnant. After failing her last try, her neighbors get back from the hospital with their new born baby. Helena breaks in to their house when they´re gone, steals the baby monitor and starts listening to what happens next door.

Dragon Rojo Jr., Mr. Profesional, ¡Sorpresa!, Rayo X and TseTse Fly are five friends who, with their fabulous wrestling skills, try to defend in the ring a village being attacked by a group of monstrous rudos (bad guy wrestlers) under the leadership of Rey Extremo. By the creators of ¡Mucha Lucha!

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Just when everyone thought the nightmare was over, a new menace strikes the city in a savage and bloody manner.

Once upon a time there was a couple who hid their emotions, until one day chance knocked on their door.

11 international directors, 11 short stories and one protagonist: the PENIS. The penis as you have never seen it, feared it, conceived it, dreamed of it... in the first DICKSPLOITATION movie ever!

Contrabando is an adventure film. The film tells of the millionaire Hernández who smuggles weapons from the United States into Mexico. He does this because he is planning an uprising. The hotel attendant Carlos is informed of this. Hernández and his troops are defeated by the army. Carlos is acquitted and can marry his lover Lolita. The film Contrabando was shot in locations on the border with the United States, such as Tijuana, Ensenada and Playas de Rosarito. It was shot in Spanish and in English under the title Contraband. The role of Lolita was cast for the English version with Dorothy Sebastian. Contrabando's plot was inspired by an actual 1929 rebellion led by José Gonzalo Escobar.

A 1938 film.

While traveling on vacation in the Mexican jungle, three young friends, witness the murder of a group of indigenous peasants.

A young man prepares to start reading a book in the middle of the night. As he reads, he realizes that the events of the novel seem to have a strange link with reality. Unexpectedly, he will have to face the dangers of fiction invading his environment.

An identity picture and the memory of Contla village through its Día de Muertos festivity. Celebration where the making of traditional bread, an offering colocation, and the embellishment of their family get mixed with mysticism and the yearning of the people community, preserving a tradition that interweaves for moments as a remembering in the México's heart.

A man who has three wives has to lie about it to his in-laws.

Carlos defends the people of his town from bandits who want to steal their gold.

A mature man suffers impotence with his teenage wife Dionisia. She will use a thousand and one ways for the flame of passion to rise. When her husband resorts to her own methods, Dionisia turns to her stepson for attention.

A club of elderly dudes plan a contest among themselves to see who can pull the most babes over a holiday weekend.

Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for.

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.

Two brothers, trying to pay off a debt to the most dangerous man in the neighborhood, trick unsuspecting people into believing they can communicate with their loved ones through séances. The consequences will be dire, as, albeit accidentally, the line between the living and the dead has been crossed.

A man in a suit and gloves is carrying a briefcase. He stops and sits on a bench in the street. He watches the briefcase until he decides to open it. The object inside will change the situation.

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

In this minimalist stage version of the MGM film, Dorotea is swept to Oz by an offstage tornado, greeted by Glinda and flowery Munchkins, not played by actors. Glinda looks suspiciously like Mother Ema (not Aunt). A Wicked Witch appears with blacked out teeth who looks like Dona Brujilda, who has been trying to get rid of Dorotea's dog.

In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses.

Mezquite is a large tree with many virtues and is in danger due to the neglect that has been had with its species in recent years.

A former judicial police officer, a former undercover agent and a former drug lord seek revenge against a commander-turned-drug trafficker.

Don Manuel is a successful bathing suit designer that decides to retire tired of his business. While doing so, he announces he will leave his company in the hands of his own employers. If during a year they manage to increase the sales of their designs, he will leave the company in their hands definitively. Otherwise, it will be inherited by his three spoiled nieces. Annoyed by the fact that his uncle has refuse them the company, the three girls plot to seduce the workers leaders in order to make them fail in their sales goal so they can recover the company.

After finding a ticket, a young vagabond decides to go to the movie theatre. Right there, he will know the reality of watching a movie, and this will trigger a series of events that will change his life forever.

Constancio has to leave his wife and son because they're making him crazy. He leaves his fortune behind and falls in love with another woman.

Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.

When Lucian and Miranda are left alone in an isolated mansion for the weekend, their mutual attraction grows, as does their unease about the whereabouts of Miranda's ex-boyfriend who may be hiding somewhere in the house.

A journey above and below the sea, portraying the charm and diversity of the waters of northwest Mexico. A team of urban documentary filmmakers and divers set sail for several weeks on a boat, The Sandman, and discover the unexplored: surprisingly large and friendly creatures, waters teeming with life, beauty, and movement concentrated in natural reserves of the Gulf of California and the Pacific, unique in the world.

La Quebrada Cliff Divers in Acapulco, Guerrero, earn their living by diving 100 feet into the sea from a dangerous cliff as part of a thrilling show at La Quebrada. In Voices from the Abyss, we explore the nature of their dives through slow-motion footage, personal testimonies, and an original poem recited by the divers themselves.

The definitive documentary on the US and Mexico men’s national soccer teams told through the lens of one of the fiercest rivalries in international sports. The series peels back the political, social and sporting layers of the rivalry through the eyes of Landon Donovan (US) and Rafael Márquez (MX), who became symbols of their countries’ soccer cultures.

Iván and Inés live locked up. Lately they hear voices, see objects break and perceive presences. He, anguished, keeps the home standing, while she only knits red vests. Now the house forces them out after thirty years.