Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.

Dalia discovers that her husband has vanished without a trace. As her life and her job as a subway driver begin to collapse, the violent indifference of her environment engulfs her in a dark tunnel that seems to lead nowhere.

Laura will make her boxing debut in Las Vegas, but she doesn't know what kind of opponent she will have to fight against.

A middle-aged American tourist finds herself alone in Mexico City. When she encounters a group of young Americans, she jumps at the opportunity for a little adventure.

Sofía, a 16-year-old girl affected by the death of her father and the absence of her mother, finds refuge in her frustrated passion for the world of fashion, until one day an opportunity arises to fulfill a dream.

Drugs won’t solve your problems, but they might help. At least that’s what Memo, a artist tortured by his own failure, thinks. About to turn 30, and in a troubled relationship with his girlfriend, Memo decides to try LSD for the first time in hopes that a psychedelic trip provides him with the answers he so desperately needs. Through the use of this hallucinogenic substance, Memo will access parts of his psyche previously unknown even to him. Come along for the ride.

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.

Felix (56) a criminal boss in the south of Mexico, has always wanted to go to San Francisco so see how drawbridges rise for ships to go through. Misela (23), whose romantic partners die if they make her cry, seeks comfort in her mother and wants to know where she is buried. They are father and daughter, and one must betray the other in order to go on living.

Three corrupt officers try to find a way to dispose of a body.

A long time ago, Ana Laura, Gustavo, and Jesús crossed the border in search of a better opportunity. They worked hard, built a family, and made a life in the United States. Day by day, years after their arbitrary deportations to Mexico, they deal with the grief of being separated from their families. As time goes by, the shattered existence of everyone is slowly and inevitably rebuilt, far away and apart from each other.

Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.

A young man who is unable to break up with his girlfriend, decides to hire an agency that specializes in ending relationships.

A beautiful woman and her niece, specialists in mechanics and love, will have to fight against the jealousy of their father, who runs away from all the suitors. In the end, the man will have to give in and allow them to find true love.

A small group of criminals joins up with a witch doctor and they become unstoppable.

In the news, there are increasing reports of illegal immigrants that attempted to cross the Mexican-American border mysteriously disappearing.

Oliver doesn't know how to deal with the fact that he is not with the girl he loves. So in desperation for coping with his feelings he starts to write letters in which he describes all the feelings and thoughts that he's trying to bury deep down.

Carlos, a former factory worker of humble origins, has made millions - but the upper class refuses to accept him as one of their own. Meanwhile, Barbara, the spoiled daughter of an industrialist, is to enter into a loveless marriage of convenience. Tensions arise when the two fall madly in love.

Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!

Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.

An special and heroic Representation of Independence, the Past Narrated in “Gritos de Muerte y Libertad,” which examines the roles of independence heroes in the series’ narrative and in Mexican historiography. Extended and more detailed pilot that expands the show.

After a heist gone wrong Tom, a low rent criminal is forced by the local crime boss to kill his partner and best friend. Setting off into the Mojave desert under the guise of moving a body they buried two years ago, Tom delays the deed just long enough for a cadre of colorful characters to descend.

A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.

Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.

About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.

A corrupt and racist government official oppresses the people and makes arrangements to ungratefully seize citizen's land and property. Mario Almada fights for justice and crusades to help the disenfranchised.

As it always happens in a typical Mexican neighborhood, Los Lavaderos are the meeting place where you find out about the lives and miracles of everybody. Get to know the everyday gossip of this singular neighborhood where love, adventure, and scandal are part of their daily living.

Horse-trainer discovers a magical statue and steals it from its hiding place. The curse of the werewolf results.

Mexican feature film

A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".

Four friends travel to a cabin in the woods during the weekend to reinforce the bond of friendship between them. A group of men begins to harass them gradually. The results become bloody and catastrophic.

A gun for hire's son decides to follow in his father's footsteps but must fight to earn his mother's love once more.

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.

Just outside her apartment, Ana finds Dina, a naked, mysterious and confused young woman. Ana invites Dina in and calls a couple of persons so that they can meet her. Pamela and Raymundo, human traffickers, show up to negotiate the buying of Dina, who claims that she comes from the future and that she is actually on a mission to investigate how far human evil has grown in Mexico by the year 2015. The young woman provokes an unsolvable dispute between the traffickers, who end up dead.

Running from the law, young crooks hole up in a small town... and get hooked into performing in the town's Passion Play.

Summer of Goliath is a documentary/fiction hybrid that narrates various stories of the people of the town of Huilotepec in rural Mexico. Teresa's husband has disappeared and she believes he has left her for another woman. Gabino, her son, is a soldier who searches cars at the side of a country road, where very few cars pass by. He hopes one day him and Alberto, his soldier partner, will get machine guns to further intimidate the people driving by. Amalio, Nico, and Oscar are three brothers whose stories we learn through a series of interviews and reenactments. Their father left them many years ago, and their mother can barely support them. Oscar has gained the nickname Goliath after the mysterious death of his girlfriend.

Follow New York City maestro Arturo O’Farrill, Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra founder, to Veracruz, Mexico where he meets up with the masters of a 300-year-old folk music tradition called son jarocho and then joins them for a historical music festival called “Fandango Fronterizo” that takes place simultaneously on both sides of the United States-Mexico border transforming the wall from an object that divides to one that unites.

Beautiful women argue with various men about those things about love.

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.

After the ferocious assassination of several DEA agents, the Mexican government launches an aggressive counter offensive

Four martial-artsy crime-fightin' gals and their comic sidekick, under the leadership of a middle-aged guy in a business suit, defeat some bad people who are doing bad stuff.

A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.

High school is almost over and four friends are going their separate ways as they go to college. But they have one more chance to spend some time together: Inspection 12, their favorite band, is playing one last concert in Jacksonville, FL.

In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.

A wife walks out on her husband. While he waits for her to return, the husband watches television, drives aimlessly around the city and writes letters to her. He meets her at a bar and gives her the letters in the hope that she will read them and come back to him. After a few days the wife returns. The man goes back to the bar and finds that his wife had left the letters there.

Capulina reaches Mexico City and sweating buckets trying to work with his uncle, the billionaire strict resting all day surrounded by a bunch of beautiful women.