Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.

Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.

A naive but humane student leaves his town with the ambition to become a doctor, promising to return to help his people, who see him as a local hero.

Arácnea's residents have been desperately searching for a source of food to save the life of their queen (a big spider). Earth is chosen, since human brains are apparently like health food for alien spiders.

Situated on 1960’s student protests in Mexico City, uncomprehended and rebel, Lucía, must decide wether to stay home or leave her conservative family and old friends behind.

Christina wakes up in the middle of nowhere without remembering how she got there, but after a long walk she meets El Tiempo, a mysterious being who seems to know a lot about her and who, by giving her answers, will create greater questions about herself and about what she wants in life.

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.

Through the journey of Silvia Sánchez Tosca, this documentary explores the practice of fencing in Tabasco. A portrait of the dedication of an athlete, coach, and academic who has transformed the sport in her region.

The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear.

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.

When thirteen-year-old Raúl is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.

All kinds of crimes are being committed in a frontier settlement; if you blame it on the Chiricahuas afterwards, you can get away with anything. One Chiricahua hooks up with a white guy and a black woman who have been victimized by the status quo, and the three of them whoop some righteous-vengeance butt.

Bride sleeps another guy on her wedding night by mistake, and he and the groom spend 90 minutes arguing over which one she belongs to.

A comedy of love and misunderstandings, in the tradition of Mexican Telenovela's. Featuring Mexico's brightest soap-stars and beauty queens. Mario and Roberto are best friends. Mario has financial problems and seeks to marry a wealthy lady to solve his problems, while Roberto is in search of true love. Teresa, Irma and Alicia are beautiful ladies, each with their own agenda. Mario thinks Teresa is rich, and she plays along to fool him, while Alicia is in love with a gay guy and can't seem to straighten him out. The story unfolds one weekend through parties and revelations that leave no one untouched and everyone unsatisfied.

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!

Story of Porfirio Rubirosa, the Dominican playboy and suspected spy.

The new Sheriff is framed for a series of stagecoach robberies, but he succeeds in finding the real thieves.

Rosita and Carlos, two young people who deeply detest each other, despite their parents determination to marry them off to unite their fortunes. Noticing their constant rivalry, the parents feign animosity to try and force the couple to fall in love.

A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling.

Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.

The bodies of two young men are found in a small town in Northern Mexico, along with a AR15 weapon, which as we will follow back in time will see where it came from, the USA.

Two sisters working hard to support their alcoholic father. The youngest sister "Obdulia" mutilates her hand in a work-related accident and her father tries to take advantage of the situation by demanding money from the workplace. Obdulia recovers from her accident and tensions arise with her family & boyfriend.

After a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.

An special and heroic Representation of Independence, the Past Narrated in “Gritos de Muerte y Libertad,” which examines the roles of independence heroes in the series’ narrative and in Mexican historiography. Extended and more detailed pilot that expands the show.

Rodrigo and Gabriela have been dating for years, sometimes their relationship seems like best friends, but deep down, they love each other. Their daily lives are disrupted when their best friends, Luz and Jorge, ask them who would be allowed.

Ghosts cause a lot of funny and chilling problems to a young couple that recently moved in their house.

A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.

Before Fujama dies, he asks his sons Tony and Dany to end his brother's karate school. Rosita takes them to the jungle where the school is and there they face many dangers. They defeat his brother Fujata with karatazos and he ends up pierced by a spear.

An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.

This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most entertaining an extraordinary adventures while traveling from Mexico to the paradisaic island of Cuba. An example of the excellent cinematographic comedy that only Tin Tan can achieve.

Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.

Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.

In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.

Martina gets pregnant from her selfish boyfriend. Without knowing exactly what to do, she travels to Berlin to find her own father, the one she never met.

A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.

Brothers Leo and Argel face the latter's poverty and autism together. When a maniac starts to scare the small town they live in, Argel' drug problems intensify and Leo's reality changes, building a stylized and tormented tale of revenge, grief and brotherhood.

John is a rogue that convinces two friends to be trusted with your money, ensuring that you will place in Switzerland in very good condition, but his plan will encounter some difficulties.

During a Halloween party, Olivia and her group of friends become embroiled in a deadly incident that will test their loyalty, their secrets, and the strength of their friendship.

California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.

Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them.

Gordolfo, a self-stylized ladies man, and his doting mother (Naborita) help out a childhood friend claim an inheritance by beating the feared wrestler Tulipan Jones.

A lonely man that fights for his people, in a world filled with perversion and limitless cruelty, a brutal past condemns him to vengeance and the love of his life pushes him to violence.

Short film that seeks to identify human relationships from the deconstruction of love.

The Black Falcon is no longer in his glory years a wrestler since his brother left him. When his brother returns, this may be his last chance to fix both his professional and personal live.

Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.

1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.

Film about child trafficking in México.

An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...

In her fifties, Betina finds love online and leaves her monotonous life to meet her virtual fiancé on the other side of the country.

Inheriting the mansion of a forgotten aunt, José Luis, a simple apothecary leaves the countryside for the capital. When he arrives, he discovers that it is a brothel, inhabited by a bunch of beautiful girls.

Four characters face off in different real life scenarios, with an unexpected twist.

Mexican feature film

Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.