Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,

A young man is sentenced to death on the electric chair. The lieutenant who captured him does all he can to prevent it, because he is convinced of the man's innocence.

After a volcanic eruption, Ramón walks the island of La Palma with his microphone, looking for ghosts.

Ayman, a teenager of Moroccan descent, is invited by Sara to a party at the same house where his mother works as a domestic worker. Along with Eric and Robert, his lifelong friends, they set off on a journey filled with confrontations and disappointments -with society and with themselves- putting their gang's friendship to the test. Once at the party, they discover that life isn't what they thought, and that wanting something doesn't always make it possible.

Victim and victimizer exchange roles in a world like quicksand. Because reality only exist in the eyes of the one making it up.

Mexican feature film

Doroteo Suazo comes to the big city fleeing poverty and marginalization that exists in his homeland, believing that the city can offer a better life for him and his family.

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.

Displaced by the violence that swept their town, Paloma and Lobo survive trying to love each other. Through thirst, fear and nostalgia, Paloma wishes to go back home but Lobo lives tied to a memory that stops him from returning.

After laughter, flirting, and dancing at the bar, Finna accepts Carlos' invitation—a friend of her younger brother's—to go to his house. She falls asleep right away and would never have expected that the person she spent the night with would rape her the next morning.

Evil mastermind Karla plans a robbery with her powerful army of zombie robots but a superhero group known as Los Jaguares will do anything to stop her.

A group of college girls are traveling through Guanajuato, Mexico when their car suddenly breaks down. In an attempt to get a male passer-by to help them, the girls (led by the voluptuous Rosa Maria Vazquez) strip down to their bras and panties. At first, they are snubbed by a gay couple, but eventually the young women receive help from a local 'farm worker' (Dominican actor Andres Garcia). From here, the coeds are taken to a local town, where they are mistaken for a group of strippers. To tantalize would-be beaus, the young lovelies parade around their apartment complex in bikinis. The coeds' leader begins to fall in love with the 'farm worker,' but it is later revealed that he is not what he appears to be.

This film was shot during Easter 1985. It shows the preparation and staging of the Passion in the village of Norogachic, Mexico. The initiation rites of two Pascoleros, filmed for the first time, form the center of this document.

After returning to her childhood home, Sofia faces the challenge of living day after day, immersed in a vicious circle where the world seems to stop and where the most important thing is to live hedonistically. However, Sofia will sooner or later have to face the real reason that keeps her trapped in her own life, escaping the conflict that she does not want to face.

When Sergio Chamorro and Daniel Cruz declared their cat Morris an eligible candidate in the municipal elections of Mexico's state of Veracruz, they thought of it as a joke. But the cat's surging popularity on social media made them reconsider. Now a leading candidate, Morris's political opponents are urging citizens not to vote for the feline.

The independent music scene in Queretaro emerged after the youths’ movements that left a mark in the generation of Avandaro. Among the secrecy of the streets and neighborhoods, rock music made its way despite the conservativism and “good manners” that, it is told, characterizes this city.

A series of comedy skits performed by Pedro, Pablo and Paco.

Six male cousins gather at uncle's farm to woo three female cousins. Hijinks.

A montage that is reproduced as a series of vignettes. Showing the life of any guy, since the first day he becomes independent, to the day he succeeds with his family.

Believing he's committed murder, an unscrupulous adventurer, Lucio Márquez, flees town and takes refuge on a ranch managed by his brother Fausto. Fausto is an honorable man and is about to become engaged to the daughter of the owner of the property under whom he works. He warmly welcomes the errant man and lends his support. Until, disloyally and out of self-interest, his friend steals his fiancée. After struggling between her sincere love for one and her passion for the other, she ends up making a bad choice that could cost her her life.

Duality, ephemeral existence, living nature, transient love, spontaneous happiness, hidden sadness, tragicomedy, luminous radiation emanating from our voices, an aura that shines in the darkness.

The change of light during the day and the generated shadows in a small forest is the environment where the gestural drawings dance.

A Latin American horror anthology where filmmakers from conjure shadows rooted in their land, their ghosts, and their history.

A woman remembers last night's dreams.

Cholo film from Mexico about scheming people.

Mexican feature film

A humble restaurant owner and a farm worker seek revenge on the people that hurt their families.

Recently widowed, Benito faces the jealousy of his daughters when, reunited by an old ford car, he finds a new love and new meaning for his life.

Franco, who was a loving family man turns into a nightmarish thug to hunt down his daughter's abuser. What at first seemed like an act of justice by his own hand was lost in a twisted personal revenge that will take Franco over the limit.

The bastard woman...a woman born to suffer...half-sister of Felipe and Brigida, she is the heiress to a great fortune, so her half-siblings devise a plan to imprison her and let her die so they can keep all the money.

Gumaro Gomarez (Charly Valentino), nicknamed “El Chile” because of his dashing good looks, is envied by men and coveted by women. A group of jealous rivals set a trap for him, and he falls right into it; but after a few more twists and turns, he manages to escape unscathed.

Two best friends chat about the hypothetical situation and question themselves on how to get rid of a body to avoid going to prison.

Terror reaches new heights when a gang of terrorists steals radioactive material from a nuclear power plant. Although they manage to escape by plane, the pilot is critically injured and they are forced to make an emergency landing. Presenting themselves as a commercial flight, they are granted access to a small private airport. Once on earth, the terrorists kidnap the owner, his daughter and the rest of the staff, forcing them to repair the plane and pilot it to finish the mission.

A man is murdered by a high-ranking Mexican government official's bodyguards, who are linked to a gang of kidnappers.

Love can have different paths; life can get difficult. A boy faces the indifference of his partner, which leads him to have so many thoughts and vivid memories of what she is and what that was. She hides something.

The 8-year-old son of Ignacio and Sara is dead, Sara wants a divorce and goes into a deep depression, but she soon discovers that she is pregnant again and must rethink the separation from her husband.

The faithful are given advance warning (via a TV broadcast) that demons are going to be unleashed on Earth during an upcoming lunar eclipse.

Emilio is the soulful tale of a young man who leaves his village in Mexico looking for his kidnapped sister. His journey leads him to Los Angeles, where we see the city through the eyes of a penniless illegal immigrant on a desperate quest.