Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

La Calavera Negra concerns a bunch of small Mexican town who must contend with a mysterious, disruptive figure known as the Black Skull. Many different people attempt to uncover the truth behind this frightening phenomenon. (Rotten Tomatoes)

Emilio is the soulful tale of a young man who leaves his village in Mexico looking for his kidnapped sister. His journey leads him to Los Angeles, where we see the city through the eyes of a penniless illegal immigrant on a desperate quest.

An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.

Tomás, a young mechanic stuck in a side road town, finds the opportunity to go to Mexico City and try to fulfill his dream of being a great bullfighter.

On the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. Through literature, myth and local entanglements, the frontier between reality and fiction, and the seen and unseen, no longer apply.

In Chile, Mexican photographer Emilia falls in love with a rabbi and gets the news that her father is terminally ill.

This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.

While she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls ill with a movie disease that leaves her amnesiac afterwards. Then she falls in with a band of gypsies. And... (Sequel to La Hija De Nadie.)

Because of a debt, Lupe is forced to work as a housekeeper for Luis, a ranch owner who is madly in love with her. However, Luis’s feelings are not reciprocated because Lupe is in love with Juan Ramón.

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.

Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Three teenage friends spend the day playing and having fun riding a truck loaded with a mysterious package in the trunk, until the scourge of violence reaches them, changing the course of their lives forever.

Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.

In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.

Mexican drug kingpin Papi enters a turf war against a team of American mafia intruders led by Mesías. But while the battle rages, the Korean mob sees an opportunity to seize power while its enemies fight each other.

Modesta arrives in Mexico City to chase acting dreams, but a slick “producer” remakes her into “Yvonne” and tries to sell her to the wealthy, until she rebels and forces him to choose between ambition and love.

In the middle of a dangerous operation, various armed people take El Chicano, a well known drug trafficker in Guerrero. The bosses of the cartel mobilize themselves to locate their ally until they get information that El Chicano was turned into the U.S. in exchange for a reward. What the bosses don't know is that they are also in the brink of being captured by the same bounty hunters.

On March 19th Lucha Libre World Cup: Guadalajara, MX 2023 is live! The event features the 2023 Lucha Libre World Cup Women's Tournament and 2023 Lucha Libre World Cup Men's Tournament. The first round matches for both women's and men's tournaments are already announced and you can check them below: 2023 Lucha Libre World Cup Women's Tournament First Round Matches Team Mexico vs. Team Japan, Team United States vs. Team Rest of The World 2023 Lucha Libre World Cup Men's Tournament First Round Matches Team Canada vs. Team Europe, Team United States vs. Team Japan, Team Mexico vs. Team Rest of The World, Dream Team vs. Team Latin America

Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of ​​promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.

A psychiatrist is brutally raped and takes her revenge in a bizarre game of cat and mouse.

A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.

Shot in different formats (16mm, DV, digital, 35mm), the film collects gestures, voices, and rituals through which the performers reclaim places and architecture. Along the shores of the Atlantic, artists such as Fabienne Guilbert, Léonce Konan Noah, Ife Day, and Daniel Galicia inhabit ruins as living archives, where non-Western deities resurface through desire. This is the version of Le Daftar specially edited for the Italian streaming platform MYmovies ONE during the 18th edition of the film festival “Lo schermo dell'arte 2025”.

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.

The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...

A violent and alcoholic gold prospector lives with his wife near the border. She is convinced that a demon is stalking them, and he thinks his wife is cheating on him. Blinded by jealousy, he decides to seek both his wife’s lover and the demon to strike them down.

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.

Pablo, a shy teenager, meets Marco, who is a few years older than him. Together they go on a impromptu road trip to the Mexican desert, a trip that will make them face what they mean to each other. This experience will turn Pablo’s life around: his points of view, his strength and his own sexuality. Two guys and a video camera that will record their friendship, struggles and the possibility to find another destiny.

Jesus Christ goes from being born in a manger to being King of the Jews . Walk where he walked, see what He did, and be where He died. What made him more than just a man in some peoples eyes but an impostor in others'? ...

City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.

A young girl travels through the city to deliver a gift to her dying mother.

The politically active Sara Pérez Romero from Queretaro fights, together with her husband, President Francisco I Madero, for the restoration of democracy in Mexico. Sara, strong-willed since she was a child, lived with the workers on her father's farm, which made her reflect on the social differences in Mexico. She later studied in California, embracing liberal and democratic ideals that would accompany her throughout her life.

"Los Mongoles del Terror", as they call themselves, are a gang of motorcyclists, who are dedicated to robbery on the highways, causing terror and misfortune.

Felipe the charro returns and discovers that Rosa is going to marry Martín, a stranger from out of town, and feels betrayed. It is a deception, but love, jealousy, and revenge dominate.

Two friends travel the world in search of adventure, but ambition blinds them and they become involved in illegal business.

Commissioned by SEISMA Magazine, EUREKA is an exploration of a personification of the creative spark. In the transformative process of seeking a 'Eureka Moment', through spoken word, this film seeks to clarify how the mental and emotional state might shift under the internal pressure to achieve.

Two young, millionaire couples are commemorating the birthday of one of them. Jealousy, desire and ambition will end in tragedy and a dead man.

Sofia is 40, childless, with a neglectful marriage, and spiraling into chaos as her life unravels. With striking imagery and a raw central performance, the film is a haunting character study trapped in a social nightmare.

Based on a story by Stephen King, "Otto" is the story of an affected man that from a fatal incident, product of his sense of justice, leads him to develop a feel of guilt that goes from fear to resignation through different forms of human behavior.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

A man is forced to go on the run when he is wrongly accused of a crime he did not commit.

1965, Chihuahua Mexico. A group of women struggle to change a country, teaching love to a cause and those who embody it.

Felipe wishes to rediscover himself through Santiago. Santiago does not realize that he never ends up knowing someone and will discover what that someone is capable of doing.

A movie actress and a film director decide to create their own version of what love should be, therefore each tuesday, no matter where or with whom they are, they see each other in order to love each other.

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene.

After losing her boyfriend, Moni decides to focus on her thesis, which consists on chocolate pastry-making. When she starts seeing other guys, the ghostly figure of her abusive boyfriend Javi appears, provoking funny situations since Moni is the only one who sees him.

Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.

In San Luis de la Paz, a small and and very poor town in northern Mexico, the priest Father Victorio manages an orphanage with nearly 50 children. He does wrestling, disguised with a golden mask, to get some money for the children. His dream of reconstruct the town begins to see a light when he is invited to become a professional wrestler

Stuck in a room, a lonely specter waits.

A modern take on the biblical flood.