Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Two female soccer teams face off in an ancient mountain range in central Mexico, shot as if for TV, complete with on-screen graphics, gratuitous replays and a leggy sideline reporter.

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

Rafael, a 19-year-old young man, has just gone through a romantic breakup, and readjusting to his life as a single person will be a particularly difficult challenge as he is being haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend, Luna.

Mexican feature film

Lidia is a responsible and dedicated maid for a hugely wealthy, elderly Tijuana matron who loves only her pet whippet. Rafael is a quiet and dignified janitor who buys a new pair of shoes to celebrate his imminent retirement from the large corporate facility where he's worked for 30 years. When Lidia's boss dies, leaving everything to her dog, and Rafael's plans get derailed, they both turn to criminal subterfuge to get what their harsh lot in life has denied them.

Upon the death of his grandfather and playmate, Bruno, an 8-year-old boy, embarks on a journey in a magical world, trying to finish the unfinished story he was building with his grandfather to become a king.

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.

A volcano scientist (Issabela Camil) arrives in Mexico to study the Popocatepetl volcano. The journey will change her whole life

A woman encounters a younger version of herself, with wings, on the beach, prompting her to express her anguish and anger.

The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there is nothing but ruins and in the distance, four men walk the streets of a city that was once great.

Primos is a story of binaries, leaded by fantastic apes. A tale of two visions of one place. Matter and spirit come together to transform the nature of these apes.

1951, Mexico City. After synthesizing the main component of the contraceptive pill, young scientist Luis Miramontes deals with the religious and personal consequences of his groundbreaking invention.

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

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.

Lucia and her family face the consequences of living in the lake that joins the border of Michoacán and Guanajuato, in a war unleashed by drug trafficking and the State Government.

A day in the life of a trans actress, as she juggles her home life, her depressed brother and an amateur and somewhat trans-phobic short film shoot.

The Jiménez brothers and their allies lead an operation to combat a gang of criminals who have the region under a regime of terror. The bloody confrontations begin to produce the first fatalities.

Sleazy comedic character "El Mofles" goes to Acapulco where he gets unknowingly involved with a robbery.

Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.

In the late 1970s, Marcel fled Catalonia to avoid conscription into the Spanish military. For 30 years he has been living in the tropical forests of Costa Rica, where he hosts ayahuasca ceremonies for young seekers from the West.

Rose's absence suddenly emptied the meaning that Damian had given to his own life. To evade the painful trance that grief imposes on him, Father Damián begins to flee. Thus he meets Bruno, a small-time thug, who demands the money that he left in the Father's custody in the past under threat of death.

A circus under the iron rule of an unreasonable leader, enthusiastically and unblinkingly followed, and one member whose faith in the circus, their craft, and their leader--her raison d’être--all begin to fray

Rubén is a troublemaker who sees school as a monotonous routine that he must follow everyday, until one day his backpack is stolen, which has a very important piece of his final project, now he will have to do the impossible to recover it until it's too late.

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The young detective Yahaira has been assigned to work as a secret agent in a brothel to investigate a homicide case. The people who inhabited the house begin to affect her work. Faced with her reality, Yahaira will have to decide how much temptation is too much to resist.

Mexican feature film

The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.

Edgar is in love and obsessed with Maria, his neighbor, but the greatest obstacle in his quest for love is the oppressive environment in which he lives with his mother.

During the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, Adela, a humble girl; is a witness to the rape and kidnapping of her mother by the rebels. This fact forces Adela to hide, escape; and embarking on a lonely path after realizing that a woman's revolution happens inside her.

When the doctor's city girlfriend falls ill, a handsome rancher takes her to his ranch to get better. It's a disastrous decision, as he and the lady begin to fall in love and secretly meet. As the wedding day approaches, Rodolfo tries to make her forget about the doctor for the sake of his love.

13-year-old Laura feels adrift in her newly stitched-together family. Just as the forests and endless palm plantations begin to feel like home, she uncovers a lurking secret that threatens the women she holds close.

Documentary where we know the work done by specialized teachers with students face barriers of learning and participation, to present a condition of disability, abilities or difficulties in the development of academic education in 4 elementary schools in Tijuana Mexico.

The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes

Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.

A vampire is sent into outer space by 3 scientists but his rocket ship lands in Mexico City where he meets different people and has comedic adventures.

A man who travels back to the house of his father, grandfather and backwards.

Unanimously flunking his professional medical exam, Apolonio dabbles with more enthusiasm than idea in ballet, theater, painting and sculpture before establishing himself as the "doctor of the madwomen". Supported by his unconditional girlfriend Maruca, the young man prescribes music to the deranged ladies who visit him to be treated in his magical therapeutic chair.

A song, a face, a souvenir of love.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

A group of terrorists cause chaos in a small mexican city, now Mario, the town's mayor, and a special forces group must restore peace in the city.

Nieri is an indigenous teenage boy from the Wixarika culture, who is being indoctrinated by his father on the path of dreaming to reach the Blue Deer and become a Marakame. However, Nieri doubts about having the gift that is necessary to become a Marakame. His real dream is to play Mexican country music and to go to Mexico City to play there with his friends.

Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived. The murderer justified his crimes stating he was chosen by God to fulfill the desire for liberation and death of his victims.

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.

Filomena is a 16-year-old girl, who after an accident discovers that she will experience an extraordinary transformation.

A documentary journey, both investigative and autobiographical, into the world of female ejaculation, covering the fields of film, literature, performance, activism and sex education.

Oswaldo and Biaani's friendship got distant after she became a Muxe-who are considered a third gender in Zapotec culture. When Oswaldo comes to her asking for help poaching turtle nests for extra income, their old friendship is rekindled.

A former drug runner plots his revenge against the man who murdered his family.

Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together...

The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts.