Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia"

A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution.

The Yellow Eagle family are Native American and live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. News reaches them that Floyd, the youngest son of the family, has died during military service in Afghanistan. The waiting begins to get his body back to the Reservation to be buried.

Two of the most important figures of their time in the entertainment industry in Mexico: Adal Ramones and Adrián Uribe. They come back and perform at the Teatro Metropólitan, in a comedy night with these great stars.

A family lives a paranormal experience.

Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.

A sailor mouse finds himself in a spectral ocean of overflowing pixels. Glitch and destruction haunt this little mouse. Aboard the steamboat, a corrupt dance begins.

A little girl with a great affinity for bees pushes the limits in order to protect her community.

When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start disappearing, the locals point the suspicion at two young visitors. The only solution is for the two to unearth the legend of a madman in this supernatural thriller.

A Jewish teenager is about to compete in the swimming nationals when a goy who works at a radio station invites her to a concert. The adventures and romance between these two will test their beliefs and family bond. While experiencing the worst economic and political crisis in the country, her father will do whatever it takes to keep her away from him and preserve his family pure. Confronting him, she will struggle to build her own destiny

Staying is a choice.

This is a true story. Kicho and Maria come to Mexico looking for a better life but Maria gets killed by the guerrilla before she gets to sign the papers at the border. Kicho promises himself he will get revenge one day. At the same time a family of four gets kidnapped during a hunting trip by the same "red beret" guy who commands the guerrilla and left the father thinking hes dead. He is an experienced hunter and with Kichos help, who knows the woods very well, track down the guerrilla to rescue the rest of the family.

An animated feature centering on the classic Looney Tunes character Speedy Gonzales. Plot TBA.

A man begins to lose his ability to grant pleasure, generating a satisfaction problem for his clients. He refuses to accept reality, so his option is to go for help with his friend.

Martín is a 13-year-old orphan shoeshine boy from La Paz, Bolivia, who has lived his entire life in the streets with the hope and desire to find his father. Driven by this desire and his imagination, Martin bonds with one of his best clients: Mr. Novoa, a lonely tailor whose only emotional bond is his dog, Astor, a fine German shepherd whom he cares for like a son.

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff filmed the family in 1996, and returns now to see the changes that have settled over them, and follows the family on their return to Mexico.

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Susana and Jorge decide to move to a mansion in front of a lake, in search of tranquility that will allow them to become parents. Her obsession with getting pregnant ends up attracting the ghost of a girl looking for a mother.

Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.

Among Chicanos in Los Angeles, young Alberto lives with the family of Dany, his older brother. Alberto studies at UCLA with the support of Professor Bob. Another young man, Jimy Joe, who lives with his sister Estela, is encouraged to quit drugs at a youth rehabilitation center coordinated by Many. Estela sees Jimy Joe being beaten up by gang members. Disillusioned with a gringa, Alberto meets Estela at a nightclub and becomes her boyfriend. Jimy Joe and his friends are surprised by a gang, and he is the only one left alive after a fierce fight, but with a fractured skull. The operation is very expensive, so Alberto and Many decide to raise funds with a show at the Convention Center. Alberto triumphs there as a composer and singer. Now saved, Jimy Joe dances in the street to one of Alberto's songs with Alberto, Estela, and others.

What happened to those vedettes who represented the mexican cabaret’s exotic beauty in the ‘70s and ‘80s? Four decades after the end of their roles, they tell their stories with dignity.

A 41-year-old dairy farm worker in upstate New York, relies on toughness, solitude, and mistrust to survive long shifts of work. Then, a 21-year-old single mother forces her to reexamine what is important to her.

At 75 years old, Ricardo has problems balancing his job as a janitor at an elementary school and the care his wife requires in a wheelchair. Since it is impossible for him to survive on the pension he would receive, he must continue working and the conflict with a student will end up causing him to lose everything.

Don Matias (Emilio Franco), the father of Jose Luis (Fabian Lopez) and Chuy (Oscar Lopez), is assassinated in an ambush conducted by Rodrigo (Valentin Trujillo Jr.), who is in search of power and be the owner of the territory. Jose Luis is miraculously saved by El Zarco (Eleazar Garcia Jr.) And his men. Days later in hunger for power, Rodrigo kills many important capos. Jose Luis, in his inseprable Chrysler 300, initiates what is believed to be one of the bloodiest vendettas out there against his enemies. Prepare for the action in the stunning conclusion to this saga!

A beer seller is kidnapped by martians, who give him special powers to become a super football player.

A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.

Six girls who take her through different versions of herself, Kenia Os will have to face her emotions while trying to maintain the balance between the real and the virtual.

Miguel is a lonely boy letting his life pass by in a monotonous routine. He works in a public kiosk, takes care of his mother Consuelo and dreams with Carmela's love, one of his usual clients. One day, this perfect bubble of dissatisfaction pops when his mother dies. The tragic event, forces him to face his past and to make a radical decision: find the father that abandoned them, with the intention to kill him.

A couple arrives to an apartment complex where santeria and witchcraft are common practice.

After an exhausting search, local authorities manage to capture Angel, who is accused of killing several women. A few months after his imprisonment in the maximum security prison of Malagua, he is questioned by a reporter named: Julio Bocanegra; who is looking for the truth behind the murders in Malagua.

A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.

After several years, Jose Luis returns to take revenge on Barragan after he killed his entire family.

Widower wants to remarry, but his adult children are slow to warm to his new wife. One daughter in particular tries very hard to discredit her in his eyes.

A young man is madly in love with his mother, until he discovers a horrible truth about her sexual behavior.

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

Young man returns to his childhood home-town, planning to git the people that killed his father.

A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder. Meanwhile, the tough broad who owns the bar faces problems of her own, mostly centered around a philandering boyfriend and an over-ambitious adopted daughter.

Two longtime friends decide to attempt the Guadalupe Reyes challenge, which consist of drinking everyday from December the 12th (Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe) until January the 6th (Epiphany Day, the Feast of The Three Kings).

Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.

Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.

Luponini, a bank employee, becomes a robber due to a broken heart. His criminal career, successful at first, is soon threatened by the betrayal of one of his accomplices and the contempt of Luisa, his ex-wife.

The Chupacabra attacks the farm of a poor family, killing them all.

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that fervently seeks to remain in obscurity.

Mexico miner Pete Carroll is in Acapulco and meets Terry Perreau and falls in love with her after he hears her singing on a recording of "Extraño amor". The troubled Terry decides she wants to go shark fishing, so Pete poses as the skipper of a fishing boat, owned by Thursday, and off they go. Pete lands a mantray and cuts it up for bait and the sharks are soon swarming, and Terry dives in the water. Terry does likewise and fights a few sharks and gets his leg gashed but finally rescues her. Gradually, her friendship also turns into love. But back in Acapulco she learns of Pete's "fake skipper" joke, is all hacked off and goes to Mexico City with her friend Dr. Antez. There, a specialist, Dr. Rivas tells her that unless she has a dangerous operation she has only three months to live. Depressed even more than usual, if possible, she returns to the hotel and is met by!

A teacher of 30 years is in love with her student. While she wait with dinner ready, imagine several scenarios to enjoy together. But, her partner is late and she begins to suspect that he cheats; the passage of hours become a mental torture and must make a hasty decision.

Tuya en cuerpo y alma ("Yours in Body and Soul") is a 1945 Mexican film. It stars Sara García.

Adán lives day-to-day helping his father, Hilario, to collect garbage. An unexpected visit to the school will reconfigure Adán's whole universe.

In Panamá City, a man stalks a well-to-do adolescent, without knowing that she is the daughter he procreated when he raped a woman.

Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.

Documentary film by Sergio Zermeño

Victim and victimizer exchange roles in a world like quicksand. Because reality only exist in the eyes of the one making it up.

A group of young women in a sleepy small town decide to open a strip club in the family business of one of them.

Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the satanic mark on her body. He was caught and was prepared for hanging. At moment before hanging Dave uses his supernatural power and makes a local shoe-shiner his accomplice. While running from sheriff Dave was injured and after some time dies. But before his death Dave gives this medallion to shoe-shiner Oscar and asks him to take revenge in the name of Satan. So he does it and also continue to rape and kill women never forgetting to leave satanic mark on their bodies...