Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Mexican feature film

A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband.

Rogue cop has served a prison sentence for an accidental death during one of his zealous interrogation sessions... but now he's back on the streets.

After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.

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

A mother wonders, will my children love their perfect machines more than they love me, their imperfect mother? She switches on a smart-crib lulling her crying baby to sleep. This perfect mother is everywhere. She watches over us, takes care of us. We listen to her. We trust her.

Between documentary and painting in movement, poetry and magic, these film portraits intend to capture the spirit of each of its subjects, as well as that of a genetration (early 80’s). The portraits present generally Mexican and New York City artists, friends and contemporaries of the filmmaker.

Daniel Pérgules, known as “Kilos” is a turtle rescuer and animal rights activist. On his journey searching for turtle nests in the most remote parts of the beaches of Tecolutla, Veracruz, he remembers the day it all began, and how his work saved his life.

Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.

Guided by a queer deity, a closeted man is forced to confront his parents as he tries to regain his lost sense of identity.

Norway's foremost art-pop singer AURORA gives a captivating performance at 2021's Corona Capital Festival, live from Mexico City. Includes such hits as "Warrior", "Runaway", "Running With the Wolves", and recent works "Cure For Me", "Exist for Love", & "Giving In to the Love".

Documentary film commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Mexican team.

Sequel to El Zurdo: ten years later, El Zurdo returns to his home town. The little boy whose father he killed in part one has grown up, and still wants revenge... but doesn't recognize him. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend, now a widow, needs help protecting her property and her person from the predatory owner of a neighboring ranch.

Primera Fila is the first live CD/DVD album by the Mexican singer-songwriter Thalía. This album was recorded in Miami, Florida at the BankUnited Center on July 29 and 30, 2009, with a selected audience to attend the concert. Primera Fila is her first project under her new label Sony Music. The album was released on December 1, 2009. It includes duets with five-time Latin Grammy Award winning-Mexican singer and songwriter Joan Sebastian and the new Puerto Rican musician Pedro Capó. It also contains new songs and a medley with some of her hit songs.

Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.

An evil mastermind, known as La mano negra, attempts to steal a formula that creates synthetic drugs but a masked avenger known as La sombra will do anything to stop him.

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.

A destitute Mexico City man discovers that money can't buy happiness after receiving a suitcase full of cash, and racing to spend every last dollar in order to make good on a deal with the Devil.

One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.

Chavela Vargas and Federico García Lorca are the main characters of this story. Poetry and music are the places of their meetings. Chavela explains when he lived in the same room where Federico García Lorca lived decades ago, was visited by a bird that contained the soul of the Spanish poet. In her last year of life, Chavela fulfills her last wish: to make a tribute to Spanish poet and finally meet him in the ranks of death. The Nightingale and the Night is a documentary that chronicles the transition from Chavela life to death, her union with Federico, dissolving the borders between reality and dreams.

Crawlies is a soliloquy based on voice recordings of my schizophrenic uncle. An audiovisual exercise of mise en abyme that weaves a patchwork of memories from my childhood, of madness and desire.

Fantastica Mania USA 2024 was a professional wrestling event, co-produced by the Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion and the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion. The event took place on July 13, 2024 at Mt. Pleasant High School in San Jose, California, United States. This show was the first time that NJPW and CMLL co-promoted the Fantastica Mania in the United States.

The odyssey of an actress doing castings in her daily life

After the Quintero crime family's patriarch and leader is murdered, his children go straight. But other people won't let them retire in peace...

The sky was covered with clouds and no one knew why the sun no longer rose in the morning. That night someone managed to enter the hacienda to try to put an end to that strange spell.

Luisa, who is actually happily married, begins an affair with her cousin while her husband is away.

Three stories: A young man disobeys his aunt by not killing a cat. An orphan boy, in love with his cousin, is fond of war novels, imagining himself as a hero. A couple of schoolboys in love wander around the city and forget the brutality of their respective homes.

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.

El Patotas Flores and Óscar La Chistosa Suárez are young stars playing with the Deportivo Barrio San Antonio soccer club. The word on the street is that El Patotas has never missed a penalty shot and that La Chistosa has never allowed one as a goalie. The two friends decide to make a secret competition, in order to determine who is the best of all, on the day a recruiter for Las Fieras shows up in order to offer a contract to only one player.

Mexican feature film

Lucía, a beautiful stewardess, discovers love and betrayal when she falls in love in New York.

Lupita Montero, a young singer , tries to break into the art world which is always hostile and complicated. Skillfully she knows a great entrepreneur of a record company who promises to make her a big star. The image of the young man begins to change, it is very frequent. Logically they end up falling in love and think it will be a great love, but in that environment everything is so complicated that Lupita decides to leave everything, both the love of his life and his career.

A tragic account of the illegal traffic of human beings in the border. A spine-tingling adventure, intense drama of a group of undocumenteds in a race against death.

Chanting saved Domitila from a deadly fever. From that moment on, she started using her voice as a spiritual bridge to pray for the souls of the dead in her native town: San Miguel Pocitos, Puebla.

Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches.

Diego's job is counting people as they enter a large government building. After work, he and his wife Blanca lie on the couch...

On the eve of a long-delayed opening, a fallen chef, his paranoid partner, and two gangsters collide in a kitchen where taste is gone and time has run out.

A small rural town projects all of their real and perceived sins and transgressions on the town's "sexy" girl.

Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.

Pablo and Lucía, bound by a shared past, enter their first months of theater studies with high hopes—only for a single night to unravel everything. At a party, Lucía disappears from Pablo's life, leaving him grappling with her absence amidst friends, family, and the echoes of their dreams. As he drifts through memories and familiar places, Pablo begins to understand that Lucía saw the world with a unique insight, challenging him to rebuild his own path in the face of loss and rediscovery.

Samuel is surprised by a subject identical to him and begins to discover that the world around him is controlled by someone superior.

Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.

Eric and Ariadna are students of an anachronistic restrictive school. In love with each other, they decide to disobey the rules hoping not to be discovered by their teacher.

Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.

Kevin Texis shares an experience that brought him dangerously close to demonic possession. His testimony reveals a chilling encounter with supernatural forces that defied all notion of reality.