Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Three soldiers desert the Revolution to put a plan into action to reclaim the estate that was usurped from one of them. Plan involves kidnapping the usurper's daughter...

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

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

A man who was left for dead is saved and tries to take revenge on his enemies by making them believe that he is a spirit that has returned to Earth.

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.

Mexican feature film

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

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Lacrima Christi is the longest of the over 150 films made by the Mexican filmmaker resident in Paris, Teo Hernández. Part three of a tetralogy devoted to Christ’s Passion, Lacrima Christi is an exploration of the transfer between desire and myth that takes as its starting point a series of objects found in the flea market of Belleville.

A beautiful, wealthy socialite is implicated in a violent murder by her aimless younger lover, and her life is forever changed as she tries to protect herself and him from the impending investigation.

A movie about a thief who got caught but redeemed himself by getting a job as a locksmith.

As it always happens in a typical Mexican neighborhood, Los Lavaderos are the meeting place where you find out about the lives and miracles of everybody. Get to know the everyday gossip of this singular neighborhood where love, adventure, and scandal are part of their daily living.

A lone gunman is blamed for the murder of a politician, but two detectives uncover a plot and battle the power behind the crime.

In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.

Four characters face off in different real life scenarios, with an unexpected twist.

The world of dreams keeps Mateo locked up, will he be able to wake up?

During a carnival, near the border between Argentina and Bolivia, a young Malambo dancer prepares for the most important competition of his life. When his ex-felon father returns, he jeopardizes everything by dragging his son into the criminal world.

A young policeman, Eliseo, has an important task: to get rid of a body. However, a twist will make him to doubt carrying his task to completion, which could cost him his life.

The patron Saint Festivities is the most important celebration of the year. Esther knows it and has a great hope to attend. Esteban, her husband thinks the opposite. The situation of the past involve a debate in this elderly couple to attend the celebration that can relive their relationship for the last time.

Mexican feature film

As a child, Francisco (Sebastian Ligarde) was violently tortured by his mother. Now a happily married man, everyone in the neighborhood thinks he and his beautiful wife (Lorena Herrera) are the perfect couple. But think again! Francisco is actually living a double life and the dark half is a sadistic and perverse serial killer.

Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...

Emi wakes up one day feeling strange.

Two provincial spinsters host Luis, a young man who comes to work at the bank, and flirts with Maria, who believes it is the opportunity to get married, but in reality he is an adventurer who at the bank learned that she is the second single more fortune. The first is the daughter of her employer, but she is engaged.

Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.

A man who took a vow of chastity wants to keep his mistress.

Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.

Manolo has decided to end his life and needs assistance. He has convinced Esmeralda, the caretaker of his hacienda, under the promise of leaving her the resources she needs to go live with her daughter and granddaughter in Baltimore. She only has one condition. She will not do anything unless Father Pablo vows to hear her confession after the act. Pablo decides to stay in the hacienda indefinitely, to impede them from doing anything. But he hardly does anything himself - and his time with Esmeralda will make him confront with his sense of goodness, and to check his pride and dogma, and the love he never found for his father.

A novelist realizes that his works gradually begin to exceed reality into a world of the unknown and supernatural, creating in its viewers an atmosphere of terror and suspense.

Several intertwined stories that occur in Mexico City

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

The Purépecha community has played Uárhukua for 3,500 years. The game symbolises the fight between the old sun – the night – and the young sun – the day. The burning ball represents humanity. The gods play to win that humanity. The game is an oracle: if the kind gods win, those of the daylight, there will be rain or good weather and a good corn harvest. If the malicious gods win, those of the darkness, there will be droughts, storms and a bad harvest.

Faced with the abuse committed by the authorities against the population, a group of anti-heroes take justice into their own hands with the same purpose of ending the damage done by the corrupt forces of order.

Miguel's journey is about to begin and during one night he has endless acts to complete.

Paula sees the love of her life in Alejandra, but Alejandra doesn't feel the same way. In the middle of one of their sexual encounters in a hotel room, they'll have to face the truth about their affair.

A weathered man is partially visible in a rear-view mirror as he relates getting mixed up with the wrong kind.

Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.

A man is making a research about the importance of familiar environment in children's future. First, he interviews a prostitute, Rosa, who's in jail because of the murderer of her pimp. She was a poor child, living only with her father. He wants to send his daughter to school, but they don't find place and the father has to leave the child with the neighbour, while he's working. But the man is hit by a car and dies. Years later, Rosa finds herself alone after her adoptive mother dies. A young man from his same vicinity, wants to help her, after hearing her singing. But the truth is that he wants to turn Rosa into a prostitute and live from her money. The other story is about a boy, who goes with his father to sign up in the school.

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

This is a prophetic drama about a young couple, Miguel and Patricia, who desperately need money and are forced to commit robbery -- until the fear they experience during their second hold-up forces them to flee. They run away together, but their relationship is tested when Patricia begins to see new possibilities in her life, while Miguel remains stuck in his old ways.

Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.

For the first time, Andrea Bocelli presents a full length spanish album that features no classical influences. Spanish guitars flourish, accordions and harmonicas provide charming melodies, traditional Latin percussion insistently keeps the tempo. Sometimes Andrea shares the spotlight with just a grand piano. Beautiful orchestras remain, but for 'Amor' Andrea stylistically exchanges the grandeur of a 19th century European opera house for the romance of a 20th century Hollywood sound studio. Amor features Latin American classics including: 'Besame Mucho' (the song was a million selling US hit for Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra in 1941). Universal. 2006.

Three generations of women return to the old family home in Sinaloa to confront the ghosts of their past. Our story, wherever we begin to tell it, begins with a broken heart.

A young man who is unable to break up with his girlfriend, decides to hire an agency that specializes in ending relationships.

Two young dreamers coast through Bogota's alleys on the day of Iron Maiden's first ever concert in Colombia. However, their day is wrecked when hoodlums steal their most valued possessions: the tickets to see their favorite band.

A group of young people looking for their place in the world through a party night discovers how loneliness and internal conflicts are intertwined with the search for intimacy, love and drugs at a party where no one is the protagonist. An honest and moving look at the complexity of youth and the struggle to find the human connection in an increasingly isolated world. Will they find hope in the darkness of the night? Or will they be lost in their own loneliness?

Tamara must tell two stories in order to provide survivance of her species.

Fercho and Balu come up with a creative plan to meet the girl across the street, an American exchange student from New York. The perfect plan goes unexpectedly out of control when uninvited guest show up.

To be a great in the mafia, you have to have the best escort, this is the work of Commander Antrax, who supported by a command of skulls and an infallible alloy is responsible for removing the blots.