Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman

The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.

Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.

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.

Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...

A difficult love story between a ghost and a young girl.

Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.

Don't go to work, don't go out for a drink with friends, and most importantly, don't leave your wife at home alone! Pancho El Sancho is on the prowl.

Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...

Timid smalltown schoolteacher has a look-alike who leads a gang of bandits; when that gang invades the teacher's town, it gives rise to all manner of confusions and complications.

Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.

Margarito, a mature and attractive man, meets Manolo, an executive much younger than him. A powerful sexual attraction starts between them. Just when they are about to formalize their relationship, Margarito's past returns to change everything.

A young heiress is kidnapped by two aspiring thieves who are then captured by a mad scientist. It's up to the police, Santo, and Blue Demon to rescue them.

Surrounded by the grandiose rocks of a Mexican beach, two couples of young painters bend the moral rules set upon them, while an obscure strange figure observes. Their audacity will be judged and punished, sealing their destinies forever.

After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.

When she eventually has to return to her old school, a woman remembers her complicated childhood when a strange presence returns.

Based on the brief life of the Mexican composer of the famous waltz, "Over the Waves" ("Sobre las Olas"), Juventino Rosas.

In a panic-stricken ambience caused by corpses of unidentified beings, Ali, a singer, starts to suffer strange symptoms. Her relationship with Genaro deteriorates as those changes start having future transcendence.

A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...

It was a car from Chrysler. Mark 300. Chuy y Mauricio got on very happy. They never imagined themselves getting off... ...DEAD!

On a gloomy Sunday in Mexico City, three friends in their twenties look for a female friend that disappears at an after-party. As they believe the worse could be happening, and while confronting characters and situations that represent a fraction of the problems of contemporary Mexico, their dreams, concerns and fears come to light.

An American soldier (Keaton) during World War II escapes from an airplane crash over the Pacific Ocean. He arrives on a beach believing he has landed in Japan, but he is actually in Mexico. He wanders into a fishing village and is arrested under the mistaken belief that he is a wanted serial killer. Keaton and another prisoner are put in the custody of an scientist who is planning to launch a manned rocket into outer space. The two prisoners, along with the scientist’s assistant, are blasted into space but their craft lands in an isolated portion of Mexico instead. They mistake a beekeeper wearing protective headgear as an alien, while the beekeeper believes the trio (who are wearing wizard robes) are escaped lunatics. The prisoners and the scientist’s assistant are apprehended by the local police, and the matter is quickly settled. The film is notable both as Keaton’s only Mexican production and as the last time Keaton had star billing in a feature film.

A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.

A story of two teens, brother and sister, who live with their dying mother in a rundown mansion in Zacatecas, sustain by a dangerously dependent relationship.

María’s Limbo is a feature-length documentary in development directed by Juan Manuel Barreda.

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built throughout the country upon crime and corruption. Ever since, Uncle Miguel was ridiculed and eventually forgotten, but it is certain that his proclaim announced the separation of Mexican cinema and its audience. Discoveries may be found in the films made by Miguel, and bringing back to life these moving pictures might recover this history that was never told, a story that is almost lost and that Contreras Torres himself tried to pass on through his writings in The Black Book of Mexican Cinema.

Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.

Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the people living in and around them intersect, and distant memories echo throughout immersive scenes of light and darkness.

A young gay university student in search of his identity and his queer sister deal with adversity by confronting their conservative father, and discovering that their sexuality overpowers them in the desire of their most unexpected obsessions.

In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.

In some of the most extraordinary natural landscapes in Mexico, a group of mountaineers have set out to explore a world labeled as impossible, but from a space reserved only for birds.

Rodrigo is a solitary teenager, a king in the private world he shares with his mother. Things change when she takes her new boyfriend home to live. He must decide if he fights for his throne and crushes the happiness of the person he loves the most.

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.

A modern take on the biblical flood.

Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.

A bank robbery leaves eight dead, six injured, and $140 million stolen. The investigation leads detectives to a thieving organization. Everyone is out for revenge, and innocent people are taken hostage.

In the late 1970s, Marcel fled Catalonia to avoid conscription into the Spanish military. For 30 years he has been living in the tropical forests of Costa Rica, where he hosts ayahuasca ceremonies for young seekers from the West.

Satan offers a weary ghost a chance for redemption through true love.

An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.

A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.

Mexican Caribbean islands are famous for their spectacular beauty. The vast distance where them are found, has transformed them into dens of heartless men, prepared to whatever they need to do in order to remain anonymous. Three young people decide to visit one of these islands, without knowing that there is something inside that can separate them forever.

Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best friend to a young man, in a friendship that becomes so very close that the younger man murders his wife. He is helped by the other man. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police. So he also kills his wife.

Ángel and his mother Rosario live in a neighborhood, where without prior notice, they are affected by a water shortage in the city. Despite their conflictive relationship, they must find an alternative so that they can have the valuable resource back

Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.

How far does a soccer fan goes for his beloved national team? Mariano Cárdenas will risk his job, wife and family to support his soccer team during the World Cup qualifiers.

Retired singer with a history of mental illness acts as housemother for a gaggle of young adult 'friends' who exploit and disrespect her.

The rich landowner La Tigresa suffers several attacks and seeks help from Santo. The attacks continue but Santo protects and she falls for him.

José is a grumpy 60-year-old man. One day he finds the diary of Elena, his deceased wife, where she says that she had three lovers. Enraged by the deception, José sets out on a long journey throughout Baja California to find each of them.

Eight friends travel to a cabin in the woods to celebrate their high school graduation.

A group of friends find a map which claims will lead them to the location of the fountain of youth.