Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Police officer dismissed from the force for excessive use of force, is hired as a hitman for some unnamed shadow organization.

In June 1994, Nicholas Barclay, a Texan boy of 13, disappeared without a trace. Three years later, surprising news about the case received: the boy has been found in Spain and claims to have been tortured by his abductors. After the initial joy of the family to recover, an inexplicable problem: how is it possible that the blond son of Barclay is now dark?

José, a street performer who dreams about becoming a telenovela star, is recruited by a talent manager who promises him great success, but soon realizes the job is actually dancing in a gay strip club. Away from his home and enjoying the newfound fame he has acquired with his new job in the city, José starts wondering if turning his back on his family and himself is worth it now that he's the club's biggest star, nicknamed "El Pistolero."

Mexican feature film

In the neighborhood there is no place more visited than the dairy 'Las Glorias de Don Zacarias'. Don Juan and his assistant Mariano adulterate the famous products of the dairy without imagining the consequences that this would bring them.

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.

A rancher living alone must deal with a vampire.

Because of a millionaire fraud, a man is condemned to house arrest, and the only place where he can serve sentence is his mother’s house, affected with Alzheimer disease. The arrival of the man disrupts the life of the people who live with the elder woman. With turns of the screw, the story feels dramatic, but it also contains certain amount of irony. It talks about human and family relations with a total absence of violence.

This is a story of a family where the mother takes care of all the housework. Tired of being treated like a servant, the mother's strike makes things very difficult, causing great entanglements and conflicts in the family. But this family, like many, turns out to be a phenomenal family in the end.

Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.

Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.

Two stories of people who's life has changed after joining the cult of "La Santa Muerte" for both better and worse.

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

Young Gloria is abused by the Vitorina, hospice caretaker hosting it. She forces her to perform the heaviest tasks. Gloria is only happy in music class. When she grows decides to escape, and now she lives on the street with another girl, both singing in the trucks and try to survive.

Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

A journey into silence. A leap into the past. A promise that will change everything.

A 1969 film.

Tristán, a young art student, has a crush on Andrea and plans to see her at a party tonight.

Fate leads young Jenny to search for her estranged father: small-time swindler Dirty Barry. Jenny believes love conquers all, but Barry knows money is what makes the world go round. Let the lessons for scoundrels begin.

Ambition, social climbing and insincerity shape the emotional climate among a circle of young professionals launching their careers.

A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.

Impresario reassembles his troupe of male strippers and buys a brothel for them to turn tricks at.

Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.

Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.

Juan Camaney, a hotel maintenance employee, helps overexcited female tourists and replaces inexperienced grooms on their wedding night.

After the end of his relationship with Irene, friends and co-workers attempt to find Victor a new girlfriend, but even after he starts a relationship with Lola, he does not want to forget Irene. His existence is suddenly turned upside down when inexplicable things start to happen around him. Something is possessing people, causing their behaviour to change.

Fictionalized biography of singer/songwriter Jose Alfredo Jimenez.

Rosario is a paid assassin who kills men who mistreat or abuse women. When the police capture her, it's the end of the myth. But Maria, a hysteric invalid, saves Rosario in exchange for a different job.

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.

Elías, a banker and the secret leader of a gang, tries to persuade Pedro—the father of young Laura and little Chava—to sell him his ranch. Five friends—the shopkeeper Trini, the blacksmith Quique, the horseman Cuco, the barber Javier, and the doctor Demetrio—serenade Laura. After her father is murdered, the five friends, encouraged by the judge, who reveals the banker’s guilt to them, disguise themselves as The Five Hawks and fight against the gang.

Damian, grieving his girlfriend's death, travels through Mexico seeking solace. Along the way, he connects with strangers and witnesses their coping rituals, finding a path through his own memories and regrets.

A socially challenged vacationer in Mexico City strikes up an unlikely friendship with one of the country's best-known luchadores.

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière predicts that between the house he was born in and the cemetery in which he will end there is a life journey of just 250 meters. "Carrière: 250 Meters" follows him as he reflects on the wealth of global traditions of storytelling, travelling through past and present, across countries and cultures from Paris to New York, Mexico and India and joined by his family, friends and collaborators. A testament to the life and work of an extraordinary man and a key architect in contemporary cinema.

Ambition, social climbing and insincerity shape the emotional climate among a circle of young professionals launching their careers.

Tween girl in an orphanage does little-ray-of-sunshine stuff all over the place and puts particular energy into creating a romance between her facility's twentyish nurse and some rando guy from USA that they see in the market.

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.

Four stories: The encounter between a soldier and a widow in a cemetery. A woman arrives as a maid in an unknown city where she discovers love. Another woman is tasked with caring for her lecherous uncle on his deathbed. A young man gets into trouble with his girlfriend's family when she suggests opening up their relationship.

A struggling ranch hand (Cornelio Reyna) is deeply in love with a wealthy woman (Sonia Amelio). Unfortunately, she doesn't share his feelings. As he maneuvers to win her affection, the ranch hand learns a valuable lesson about rich people and the negative, corrupting power of money. Nonetheless, he remains unsullied and proves that bundles of cash have no power over the human heart.

Rubén Jaramillo was the first cavalry captain of the South Liberation Army that Zapata commanded. For more than 40 years, he had an unequal struggle with the governments that followed after the armed struggle. In this film, the last stage of his life and the conflictive period of the Cold War are marked. The film is enhanced by the presence of an old Jaramillista integrated into the social movements that have elapsed from the seventies to the present: Mr. Félix Serdán Nájera.

The film takes the characters of The Moon (1979) by Bernardo Bertolucci, to interweave the plot with texts of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Men are turning up dead after receiving anonymous threats that include the date of their deaths. The latest person to receive one of these threats decides to call Santo the crime fighting wrestler for help. Santo must solve the mystery of the men's murders and confront a gang of Nazis operating in Mexico City.

Ramona's compulsive life becomes a wreck when she finds out, after a long search that Osvaldo, her only son, has died.

Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.

After Diego is the victim of a hit-and-run, his brother Pablo recruits a team of eclectic friends to enter a soccer tournament, win the prize money and pay for his brother’s life-saving surgeries.

Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.

A socially challenged vacationer in Mexico City strikes up an unlikely friendship with one of the country's best-known luchadores.

Aram is a wearied accountant with an unbearably dull existence. With a nagging wife who berates him for not being assertive enough, and a measly paycheck, he quietly suffers while awaiting a long-deserved promotion. But there's more to Aram than his mild-mannered demeanor lets on: he has been secretly devising a scheme to finally get what he feels he is owed. One day he asserts his power menacingly when he kidnaps a schoolgirl and keeps her tied up in an abandoned warehouse. What seems like the perfect plan soon unravels into his worst nightmare, and his carefully constructed scheme comes crashing down piece by bloody piece.

Innocent trucker is blackmailed into transporting drugs from Tijuana to Guadalajara. He gets killed at a police checkpoint and his partners goes after the gangsters that exploited him. Part of the "Camelia La Texana"series.

Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the present. Another man finds a colonizer guarded by a ghost treasure, two girls are attacked by an evil car and finally a man steals money, then he flees to enter the past.

Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.

The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the tragedies and hardships of a civil war.

After spending time in prison and betrayed by his wife and his ex-partner, Marlon Lozano returns for revenge and for his place in the drug business. This war can only be won, betting everything, including its structure.