Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

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

Iris and Ariel are 17-year-old twins, who live with their mother and older sister in an old house in the middle of a rocky island covered with molluscs and birds. The teenagers have grown up isolated from the mainland, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. The abrupt absence of their mother deeply wounds the three siblings, and Iris, moved by a strong need of separating herself from her brother, decides to go alone to the city for the first time.

A couple of artists travels through the Mexico desert to present their puppet show.

Nestor is a boy immersed in melancholy. In an attempt to forget an old love, he begins a relationship with Isabel, an android.

A hen-pecked husband, so timid that he doesn’t even dare to drive a car, embarks on an affair with a much younger woman (played by Lisa Owen), who lives in the same apartment building as him and his wife. Eventually, he finds that the young woman is just as demanding as his difficult wife.

A man joins forces with a Vietnam veteran to take revenge on his father, the most powerful drug lord on the border, who he blames for his mother's fall from grace.

Two old friends meet after years of not seeing each other: Miguel, a prisoner who is about to be killed by a troop of the Mexican Revolution; and Luciano, the General of the troop and the man tasked with commanding Miguel’s execution.

Martina, a sorrowful woman, is the sole inhabitant of an abandoned and eerie house, where a couple arrives on a stormy night seeking shelter. Martina tells them how what was once a happy hacienda turned into a hell filled with resentment when Doña Adelaida—the master’s second wife—and her son Hugo came to live there; the despotism and cruelty of both ultimately destroyed the entire family.

Five cousins find a board game that makes wishes come true

Insects mate, stories are born. The concept of “love” gets put under the looking glass in this captivatingly maverick film. Manuel, a lonely 36-year-old, begins an unusual friendship with the much younger Alma. A young foreign couple set out on an idyllic backpacking trip in Costa Rica. A Mexico City taxi driver visits a dive bar where he meets a sexy lounge singer. Vicente runs into an old classmate from high school and has something profound to share with her. Meanwhile, throughout the film, different couples speak about their relationships and thoughts

After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.

As a teenager and student at a convent school, young Mariana runs away with her boyfriend, provoking the wrath of her father who sends her to Switzerland for ten years.

A film about the gang La Mara Salvatrucha. Otherwise known as MS-13.

A boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the police discover them at a routine check, they are forced to flee. Forced to team up, they will abandon their secrecy and mistrust while trying to assert his only heritage: a dead man who they only know is worth money if they manage to take him to his destination.

Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.

After the last breath of her elderly husband, Maria experiences a brief suicide attempt that will take her into a journey throughout all her memories alongside him with the purpose of finding a true meaning to life, beyond marriage.

Female-lead action film.

Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.

Mexican feature film

It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.

Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.

Comic duo are stalked by a serial killer.

A fugitive hides from justice among smugglers in the deep jungle of an exotic island, but things become complicated when he falls in love with a local cabaret dancer.

The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.

Jimena, like Hannia and Sofía in the first two parts of this trilogy, is the thread that connects the documentary. Gradually, we learn about the life of this young ballet dancer, her desires, experiences, and concerns. Additionally, a series of questions, sayings, and common phrases from Mexican culture are used to engage in dialogue with her and the other participants.

Two years after an injury halted his career, Germán, a two-time Olympic medalist, returns to competitions with the desire to win one last medal.

A powerful metaphor for how a woman perceives marriage: not as an act of love, but as a sentence.

Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...

An immigrant couple caring for their grandchildren receives an unexpected visitor after hours, threatening to throw their lives into complete disarray.

Simon is 21 years old. He introduces himself as a mover's helper. He claims not to know how to cook or clean the bathroom, but he does know how to make a bed. Recently, he seems to have become a different person…

A detective dies, and it is discovered that the murderer is involved in arms trafficking along with a high-ranking politician.

Mexican feature film

María rehearses Antigone the same way as she criticizes the government's actions; Ismene listens fearfully just as Irving reluctantly accepts the official version of a lie. Love only has consciousness in its disappearance; in the end the causes will be known, and only the memory of those who refuse to forget will be left with no consequence.

Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.

Esteban is practicing for a recital that will define his future as a pianist, while he faces the pressure imposed by his mother.

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.

Stock car racer Brad Carlton (Greg Evigan) throws the Mishaw family into a tailspin the night heiress Helen Mishaw slams her car into his motorcycle. He gets romantically involved with Helen Milshaw (Mitzi Kapture), and helps multi-million dollar Milshaw Industries win a valuable government military contract. However, when Brad becomes the victim of sabotage and strange accidents, he realizes someone want to stop him cold - dead cold!

In present-day Monterrey, three downtown musicians confront the urbanization of the city as they perform Fara Fara pieces in search of clients.

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to handle; or can she control it?

A gaggle of sex-workers face everyday problems and gradually find their way back to respectable wife-and mother-hood.

A sterile abusive husband beats the shit out of his wife and gets drunk but she cheats on him with his best friend who isn't any better but at least he doesn't beat the shit out of her or yell at her.

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

A brave and courageous woman nicknamed 'La China' has made her way and earned the respect of top drug trafficking leaders, but many of them want to topple her from her throne.

The sixth night of Fantastica Mania 2026 was a professional wrestling event co-produced by Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on February 26, 2026 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.

Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get complicated because it had not yet been cashed. This will force him to try to forge the signature and eliminate any suspect, including his girlfriend Clara, who works in a law office and who talked him about the check. Police tracks the case, but by chance Pedrito, the police inspector's son, is also investigating on his own.

"Luz Externa was one of the most ambitious productions of the Mexican super 8. The script is based on the monologue of Ernesto, a jipiteca machín, who tells a friend of his mystical adventures with his girlfriend [...] What was probably the super 8 film that best portrayed the countercultural world of the first half of the seventies in Mexico was not seen in its time, despite the expectation that its filming caused in the press." - Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón, El Cine Súper 8 en México

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.