Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

An old alcoholic has an alien visit and is induced to have an introspective psychedelic trip.

Two nasty characters try to take advantage of an ageing land-lady, all but taking over her house until she has had enough and takes her revenge.

Matías, a thirteen-year-old boy, experiences soccer's and adolescence's intense days, along with the pressure to fit in and stand out, the thrill of trying his first cigarette, and the discovery of first love. Between the demands of his environment and his own fears, Matías faces that fragile moment when growing up means taking risks, losing his innocence, and ultimately, finding himself.

The circus in which Rocky Carambola and Coco, his chimpanzee friend, work, arrives in a city where strange things happen.

When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows, manifest a decided vocation for bullfighting and, although his adoptive father did not endorse, struggle to achieve his dream.

A matriarchal family runs a taco food truck, navigating between artistic aspirations and daily frustrations while raising a member's daughter.

Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.

Soledad is a very lonely woman who falls into a big depression where she'll find a series of dreams in which she slowly transforms in to fire. She will try her best to escape from both dreams and reality, finding another state of mind.

After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.

An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.

A young Mexican climber determined to take on an iconic route, confronts the doubts, fears, and obstacles that follow him both on and off the rock.

Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story is full of drama and misadventures, which Antonio lives without proper orientation and promiscuity.

A very wealthy man marries a gold-digging woman. One night he suddenly dies, and his children are not willing to share the inheritance with their beautiful stepmother and will do everything to prevent it.

Two young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

In a peripheral zone of Mexico City, the collection of money from merchants and residents of the area is an everyday occurrence. On a sunny Sunday, in a housing unit located in one of these areas, a merchant has not paid his fee and the hired killers have come to give him an ultimatum.

Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.

Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.

Adrián is a sex worker and a member of the mafia of a betting house, where El Cangrejo is the leader.

Two young people leave city life for the simplicity of life in the province. Unfortunately, the beach they are going to live next to is being polluted by a local factory.

In the short film "fanitullen", national romanticism, death metal and bloody slapstick are mixed to tell the story of how scorned love unleashes the darkest forces in man and nature.

Leopoldo returns to his hometown motivated by the woman he was in love with 25 years ago. Simultaneously, Esteban, his teenage son, travels to the beach with his high school classmates, where he will strive to fit into a group that is hostile to him. Both must confront themselves to achieve what they believe will make them happy.

A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.

Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."

Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.

A surviving member of the Siete En La Mira gang sets out to avenge his dead brother and recover the ashes from his cremation. The two lawmen that killed him are dead now themselves, but they have a third brother who wasn't involved in the original conflict.

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Mexican stand-up comedian Franco Escamilla draws his jokes from real-life experiences -- and he's willing to do anything for new material. He's not afraid to make generalizations about how men bathe. But he is scared to talk to strangers. Especially at funerals.

During the filming of a movie, actress Sandra Navarro denounces actor Daniel Zavala for sexual abuse on the set during the recording of a scene for the movie. Daniel pleads his innocence and the production tries to prevent the situation from leaking off the set and causing a scandal.

In rural Mexico, a psychic finds herself caught between warring families while competing with her closest friend for the same man's affections.

The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.

Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.

A possessed young girl from an atheist family refuses to let her new powers go and becomes more than a threat to everyone besides her.

A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.

Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. But this Octavio turns to be a gambler and in a few months he loses all family's fortune. Alicia decided to come back to that cabaret and sing again. The cabaret owner Don Lalo wants her to be his love and his girlfriend Elena finds out about it. She kills him and makes people and police think that Alicia is guilty for this murder. Being imprisoned Alicia must find a prove that she's innocent. And the only prove is a VHS with the record of that murder which was stolen from Elena by her ex-lover. Alicia goes through beatings, humiliation, takes drugs and finally faces with Elena and her ex-lover to get the prove of her innocence...

Two girls find love in the most unexpected places in modern-day Mexico City.

Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.

Travis's tight social group of friends and lovers splits apart when his childhood friend, O'Brien becomes severely mentally ill. Now alone, the characters go their separate ways: Travis helps crowd-fund a socialist revolution in Mexico, O'Brien succumbs to mania and becomes a satirical Youtube celebrity, Kate seeks stability in online dating, and Lox embarks on his first indie rock tour. Their lives continue to cross paths and reconnect through the internet.

Enrique Juarez is an up-and-coming Mexican Telenovela actor on the verge of becoming a leading man, that has to hide his true self in order to achieve stardom.

Power struggles among the owners of a cigar factory;meanwhile, a society babe and a factory girl compete over the youngest of the executives.

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

Witch Salome wants revenge. Only her riders can do it.

A beautiful woman is abandoned by her husband during their honeymoon, she stays alone in the hotel where she meets other guests and listen to their stories.

A policeman is fighting against the crimes of the region, and he will have to face the bureaucracy, the corruption of his corporation as well as his family to try to save his daughter.

Santiago, a country man with good principles, goes to the city in search of an opportunity, because he brings with him something that all men want: “the drops of happiness”. Along the way he meets his unknown twin brother and they decide to switch roles, living the most fun and uncomfortable adventures.

Ernesto, a Cuban actor who decides to audition in Mexico, is stranded in the gigantic city when he fails to achieve a leading role in an important play. Facing the dilemma of returning defeated to his home, he accidentally meets Belén in the subway, a spontaneous actress who tells stories or lies in exchange for some coins.

Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.

A teenager with behavioral disorders engages in murky worlds in order to find a solution at the expense of everything.

A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of investigating the crime.

A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.

Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the limitations of their advanced age. Along the way, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic misadventures and meet a cast of colorful characters. Their journey fundamentally alters each characters' sense of self and their place in the world. There is, indeed, life after 80.

Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.

A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.

Mexican gigoló

On the border between Mexico and the United States, there is a man willing to do anything. Handsome and adventurous, he prepares to live a new life that will make him a legend.

Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to handle; or can she control it?