Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

It's 1991. Ana and Juan, a newlywed couple, receive a creature as a wedding gift. Amid the oppressive atmosphere of Juan's family, will they be able to care for it for a year to preserve their marriage?

It was a car from Chrysler. Mark 300. Chuy y Mauricio got on very happy. They never imagined themselves getting off... ...DEAD!

Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.

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

Pesadilla sin fin is a fascinating piece from the late '80s Mexican horror scene. The film's atmosphere is thick with dread, weaving a dreamlike quality that pulls you into its sinister world.

"1985: Heroes among Ruins" is a reflection of disaster. It is about the human solidarity, the search and rescue and the importance of civil protection, but above all, the triumph of the people over devastation during the earthquake of September 19, 1985 in Mexico City and the one ocurred in September 19, 2017.

Claudio, Juan and Vampire have been friends since their teenage years. One night, Claudio tells his friends he is being extorted by a police officer, so he needs a large sum of money. He asked them to perform a fake kidnapping, so they can obtain the money he needs from his own family. But soon after they got the money, Claudio has been kidnapped for real.

Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead

A 1968 film.

A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite.

The arrival of a new school-teacher to a small town triggers various large and small upheavals, including the Police Chief's total meltdown into raging psychosis.

History is Ours narrates the struggle of the workers of the Refrescos Pascual soft-drink company against its owner, Rafael Jiménez, the official trade unionism of the CTM and the labor authorities of the governments of José López Portillo and Miguel de la Madrid, between 1982 and 1985. It documents the workers' difficult struggle to take over the company, when justice, which had been elusive, finally proved them right, and opened the possibility that these brave, tenacious workers would become collective owners of the company. Today, these soft-drink fighters resist a system that hits Mexican companies in favor of the monopolistic transnationals. The film is an account of one of the most brilliant episodes of the contemporary Mexican labor movement, an example of unity and class consciousness, embodied by men and women who make their struggle a tribute to comrades Concepción Jacobo García and Alvaro Hernández García, tragically fallen at the beginning of this historic event.

A drug cartel boss keeps control over his empire while in prison.

After his young wife leaves him for another man, high-stakes gambler "Gaudelio" tries to move on with other women & gambling. Leading to more conflicts in his life.

Leo and his band decide to bring Thomas to play in a wedding. They have no idea how complex it is to spend a day with someone with autism.

Adulterous love triangle ends in tragedy.

Erick has had bad luck in love, but one day he meets Sandra, the love of his life, who has a very turbulent past.

Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella.

Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at stake.

Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.

Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...

A transgender girl runs away from home and is invited to live with a strange photographer who pushes her to help him pay his debts.

When trapped in limbo, the only way out is in.

A woman dreams every night that she wanders around the city screaming for her dead children and realizes that the old house where she lives is actually the tomb of murdered children.

Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.

El Chaca and his drug gang continue their operations in the face of the Federal authorities, bringing about a violent and bloody confrontation.

A tiny porpoise finds itself in a battle for survival against the forces of fish mafias, drug cartels and a Chinese black market.

Monica is a rich swiss girl who is kidnapped with a university teacher. Together they discuss their future and their ideas about life.

Frank rents rooms in Nadine’s building to commit crimes. During the latest one, things take a turn for the worse when a guy he killed a couple of days before, disappears.

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.

Four stories that tell the tales of lottery winner. Each story features a different cast of street vendors.

Anapu is the people's hero. He extracts water from a rock, befriends, and baptizes it, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, while tracking a fascist military.

After a kidnapping, one man’s rescue becomes a spiritual awakening.

Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.

All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.

Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...

Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.

Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?

On an imaginary island, Gloria Zamora, a working mother, unleashes her true nature as money and power enter her life, bringing an entire town under her control. Her daughter, Trinidad, narrates the story, judging her mother’s malice through her inner monologue. Meanwhile, in Spain, actress Rocío Aldama, embodying Sara Montiel, chases her dream of success, as two worlds intertwine in a web of coincidences and misfortunes.

Pepedrilo and his peculiar connection with nature are embodied by the care and protection of a crocodile sanctuary, whose stability is put in danger day by day by the threat of men.

After the kidnapping of her daughter, Paris becomes involved in the underworld of extortion and homicides to try to get her back.

Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.

A successful TV executive changes his identity and moves to a poor neighborhood in search of real human connection. There, he falls for an aspiring actress trying to start her career at the channel he runs.

Four provincial sisters abandoned as children by their mother, who was a cabaret star and was in vice. At the same time, one of her daughters decides to look for him, finding that the cabaret businessman, a mafia man, promises to help her enter the prostitution environment in order to find her mother. This takes advantage of the need and naivety of the provincial, drugging her to make sexual use of her.

The singing group "Garibaldi" go to Ixtapa.