Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels.

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.

Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising.

Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.

A group of workers crossing the river is ambushed by rogue INS agents who intend to kill them all and plant drug on the corpse as evidence of cartel activity. One escapes, and he commits himself to helping a District Attorney collect evidence on the politicians and industrialists those agents work for.

An astronaut sends her young son a video message from outer space. In Mexico, a stripper dances night after night to keep a roof over her child’s head. In Canada, a woman becomes a mother for the first time after enduring seven miscarriages. Finnish filmmaker Joonas Berghäll has travelled to South African settlements, Nepalese terraced fields and Russia’s metropolis Moscow to investigate an unshakable and almost magical connection: the bond between mother and child. MOTHER‘S WISH portrays 10 women from the most varied of cultural and social backgrounds who all tell of the beauty and difficulty of being a mother. These are not only stories of love and pride – but also of disappointed hopes and the most precarious of life circumstances. Above all else, however, the protagonists tell of their determination – regardless of their current living conditions – to fight for a better future.

In Greek mythology, there were colossal creatures with fifty heads and a hundred arms. In the manner of an illustration in a bestiary, this short film describes the titan in a contemporary city. The concrete masses on the outskirts of Mexico City are the current version of the giant, recorded through 16mm film.

The story of a mother condemned to life in prison for murdering her husband, who is granted one last afternoon at her home with her children where each recounts dark stories from their shared past.

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.

A man named Lucio decides to avenge the death of his sister-in-law after she is killed during a break-in. In order to complete this task, he must become part of a gang.

Emilia argues with her mother, not knowing that this would be her last conversation and her farewell to the earthly world. Now, on a plane between life and death, she will travel the path of the Day of the Dead in search of a connection with her past.

The film narrates the discovery of the last great Mayan city, which occurred during the spring of 1946. It is the story of Charles Frey, a smuggler of archaeological pieces who upon hearing some legends about the immense riches that the jungle regions of southeastern Mexico keep, decides to go looking for him. After several months and a point of giving up, Frey detects some archaeological evidence of the Mayan culture, so he continues his explorations until he finds the majestic city of Bonampak.

MTV Unplugged is the first live album recorded by Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas. The album features a selection of her greatest hits, along with new tracks, including the singles "El Presente" and "Algún Día". A handful of guest artists was included: Gustavo Santaolalla, Natalia Lafourcade, Marisa Monte and La Mala Rodríguez.

Giron de niebla is a Mexican horror film directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada. The film tells the story of a woman murdered by her nephew. It was filmed in a hacienda in the State of Mexico. The cast includes Raúl Araiza, Sonia Linar and Gerardo Murguía.

Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.

A boy waits in the car for his mother. An alien invasion that threatens to destroy everything.

The murder of an 8-year-old boy by a young soldier in Tijuana, Mexico, leads to riots on the streets. Based on a true story.

Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.

Ximena, Gaby and María are stranded on a deserted beach trying to get rid of a mysterious package that they stole the night before. Haunted by their own fear, they go looking for help. Richie, a local boatman, becomes their accomplice. During their journey, their fears and their friendship will be exposed, because they are about to embark on a trip that will take them inside themselves.

Andrés returns home on the occasion of his mother’s death. As he is reunited with his family, he discovers a new conflict which, once revealed, will force him to decide if he will stay and face it or run away again in order to save himself.

A family secret and his father's last wish compel a conflicted funeral director to embark on a transformative quest across remote Mexican landscapes with a street-hardened woman he's never known -- but who knows him.

Mexican feature film

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.

A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the Madera military barracks; most of them lose their lives.

Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. Roxana Chavez is a young girl who's flirting with death, trapped in a dangerous liaison with boss Fernando Balzaretti. She has the power to seduce him but her life will shortly turn into a nightmare when she discovers a stranger waiting in her apartment. What does he have to do with her lover, and how can she escape this assassin's trap?

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers.

Terror, transsexualism, and an eternal cult film. What is on the mind of horror film director Juan López Moctezuma and his fans, Manolo and Lalo, who are not only obsessed with the Mexican horror film 'Alucarda', but also believe in their hearts that they are its true characters? After finding the director in a psychiatric hospital, they kidnap him to make him remember his gloriously twisted past. An unclassifiable documentary film that uses interviews, stock shots and recreations of a past that may only have existed in the nightmares of its protagonists.

Story about the challenges three members of a grupera music band must overcome to achieve fame.

Mexican movie

The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.

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.

Fake animated documentary of the creation of colorful blobs, created way before dinosaurs and men. Plot TBA

Óscar is a regular visitor to table-dancing and having affairs with any woman who comes his way, cheating on his wife no matter who he hurts. Several women will appear murdered, with him being the main suspect.

Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.

A man in the middle of the night is unable to act while witnessing the moment in which someone else conquer the woman he desires, defeated returns home to face himself.

From millions of photos, posters, videos, t-shirts, postcards, records, books, phrases, testimonies, Che watches over us. Beyond all paraphernalia, he returns. Irreverent, mocking, stubborn - morally stubborn - Che will always be the subject of debate. The exclusive teleSUR series “Ernesto Guevara, also known as 'Che'”, aims to address the figure of Ernesto Guevara as it has never been told before. Conversing with the characters who were with him in important moments, visiting the real settings where Che spent his life.

A group of con artists kidnap a woman and hold her for ransom - and she helps them scam her family in the process.

A veteran cop and a thief team up to take down a kidnapper who murdered his prisoner thirty years ago.

Five young women visiting relatives in Acapulco are targetted by white-slave kidnappers.

A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threatening conditions. The story of a stubborn journalist who undertakes the clarification and bringing to justice of the heinous murder of one student forty years later represents a dedicated effort to force a country from denial to reconciliation and closure of tragic social and political events in a country´s history. A nation cannot allow official cover-ups that seek to delete and erase from the collective memory events that prevent a nation´s march towards social justice.

TripleManía XXXI: Mexico City was a professional wrestling event produced by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). The event took place on August 12, 2023 in Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.

Documentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1999.

Mexican feature film

A vigilante arrives at a town in search of a murderer who spreads fear among its inhabitants.

A couple is involved in a seduction game to get out of the monotony of their marriage.