Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.

A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.

A dysfunctional young couple argues after their sex session.

In early 1860's Mexico, Nicolás (Contreras Torres) wants to marry Manuela (Chavarri) but she runs off with bandit El Zarco (Cantalauba) She soon becomes disillusioned by her lover's cruelty and the brutality of bandit life. In the meantime, Nicolas has turned his romantic attentions to Pilar, Manuela's adopted sister. At the climax. El Zarco is captured and shot, Nicolas marries Pilar, and Manuela dies.

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

A newlywed couple face the worst nightmare. As the wife is kidnapped, Antonio relies on the police to find her, until the investigation uncovers the murder of another woman. Based on true events.

Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.

After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.

Nicaragua, today. Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother Lilibeth on the edge of an immense rubbish dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local gang member. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth has to move to the outskirts of the city and leave María to work at a recycling factory. The days go by with no sign of her mother's return. María feels abandoned, confused and angry. One night she meets Tadeo, a kind and romantic boy determined to help her find her mother.

A documentary that tries to explain the reason for the passion of the Mexican football fandom.

Surrounded by reflections of color, an ephemeral being explores the ethereal, sweet, and dangerous nature of sexual affection for another. It yearns to desire, but also to be desired.

A bus driver loves to seduce all the women he can find and brags about his conquests, until he finds the one woman he can't have.

Two young, millionaire couples are commemorating the birthday of one of them. Jealousy, desire and ambition will end in tragedy and a dead man.

Enrique lives in the midst of danger until he falls in love with a girl and learns to appreciate the little things in life. However, a series of strange situations unfold before him towards his own death, which he must deal with.

Anthology film, four episodes.

In this supernatural suspense film, Karen Fisher and Paul Henderson, a young American couple, travel to Chiapas, Mexico on holiday. While there they have an encounter with a witch that changes their lives forever.

Miranda, the Manchester Acatitla forward, returns home after a victorious match. On her way back, she faces dangers off the court.

Adrian and Esteban have been missing for a year. The police are at a standstill, despite having found their personal belongings in Cozumel, an island 12 miles away from the Riviera Maya. Alex friend of both, manages to get their cell phones, with which he will start his own parallel research. And he will discover that the truth is much more terrifying than you could imagine.

Plata: The Price of Risk — a documentary about how former Tinkoff Bank executives built a new bank in Mexico from the ground up. Oleg Tinkov, along with managers, developers, and product people from Russia — people who could have stayed home and lived comfortably. Instead, they left and bet everything on an impossible idea. How it turned out — watch the film.

Obscure Mexican film.

Western comedy. Stranger-in-town falls into an ambivalent love/hate relationship with the sheriff.

Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.

Tomás and Paco craft low-budget short films. They are good friends and they both share the same dream of becoming filmmakers. Tomás, being a 24 year-old loser, starts worrying about his uncertain future since he doesn’t have a job, he never went to college and he smokes a lot of weed, therefore becoming unreliable for everyone. Tomás sets up to make the first film from his hometown: Campeche, México. With this mission, he hopes to attain success, money and love, but in the process, he might endanger his friendship with Paco, his only true friend.

A man sleeping is woken by screams coming from outside of his apartment. Through the peephole he sees a woman being brutally abused by a hooded man. When he finally manage to unlock his door to help the woman, something strange happens.

Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.

Ivan, a Uruguayan political exile living in Mexico, returns to his country after his father's death. The reencounter with his empty home will push Ivan to look back in time in order to come to terms with the past.

A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

A forensic doctor tries to find the killer behind a series of murders using acupuncture techniques.

A former alcoholic and a rich macho man are fighting for the attention of a young woman while the killer periodically hunts for the next victim.

Blackout comedy bits about people getting their perv on. As it were.

When Moisex declares his hatred for Christmas, Kevin sets out to change his mind by creating a short film. This documentary captures their journey of creativity, humor, and the search for holiday spirit.

Apollo (Dylan Jeremy) and Daphne (Nadd Martínez) tells the story of two young lovers who realize that having a relationship is harder than they imagined.

A fateful day reunites an estranged family in Mexico City, where a chain of events shifts their romantic relationships and uncovers a monumental secret.

Ricardo and Andres are brothers who decide to break with routine and take a trip that will change the way they view and live their lives. A mixture of good and bad decisions bring them face to face with death; to survive, they will have to decide what is more important: love among brothers or the love of a woman; honor and justice, or the easy life.

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.

Liu Liu is living in a strange new land. While his mother looks after the shop, he goes exploring. Encountering a ghost monster, a fierce battle begins. Behind the shop counter, Liu Liu’s mother listens to audiotapes to teach herself Hungarian. Bored and frustrated, Liu Liu goes in search of adventure. Exploring this new and foreign land, he encounters a mysterious monster.

A tight-knit group of friends can't live without each other, that is until one of them announces their marriage. In the midst of dealing with this change, they stumble upon the perfect chance to throw a wrench into the wedding preparations.

Expelled from school, Alonso flees to Paris to meet his brother Pablo, who has cut all ties with his family and lives carelessly with his girlfriend Valeria. The sudden appearance of Alonso stirs Pablo's life exposing the brothers distant relationship and the lies in which he has built his new persona.

No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.

A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene.

Diego's job is counting people as they enter a large government building. After work, he and his wife Blanca lie on the couch...

After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.

An unseen person enters a taxi late at night. Suddenly the taxi driver is stabbed with a large metal knitting needle. From there we meet our female killer. Catalina is a very plain Jane looking young lady. She wears some geeky glasses and usually dresses very conservatively. She lives with her grandmother and they both seem to loathe men. Catalina’s grandmother mentions that her late daughter/Catalina’s mother was troubled by men and that cost her her life. Catalina and her mother resemble each other. At night, Catalina awakens by the vengeful spirit of her mother to advise her to go out and kill men. The kind that only want to take advantage.