Juan Rulfo

Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.

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 young peasant farmer has a feud with a heartless landowner which results in the landowner killing the peasant's cattle which result in the peasant killing the landowner which for the man goes in to hiding for more than 40 years, hounded by the murdered landowner's son obsessed with finding his father's killer.

A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too

The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abandoned his wife.

Juan Preciado, hijo de Pedro Páramo, va a Comala a reclamar su herencia; pero cuando llega se encuentra con un pueblo abandonado y siniestro, habitado por voces misteriosas y susurros…

Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.

Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.

Cuando un grupo de mujeres trata de persuadir a un vendedor de basura de que solicite la canonización de un ciudadano notable, el individuo les revela la impactante y chistosa historia del reverenciado personaje

Cuando su madre Dolores muere, Juan Preciado, hijo de Pedro Páramo, va a Comala a reclamar su herencia; pero cuando llega encuentra un lugar abandonado y siniestro, habitado por voces y susurros misteriosos…

A cinematographic essay, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.

Un pobre pregonero, tras la muerte de su madre, ve su suerte cambiada por un gallo. Al asistir a una feria, le regalan el gallo perdedor de una pelea, él cual se encontraba ya en muy mal estado. Con cariños y cuidados del pregonero, Dionisio Pinzón, logra hacer que el gallo se recupere y vuelva a las peleas, presentándolo como su "gallo de oro". Tras ganarle a uno de los gallos del famoso gallero Lorenzo Benavides, este último se empeña en adquirir al gallo de oro y asociarse con Pinzón. Con la ayuda de la "Caponera", Benavides se asocia con Pinzón, sin embargo este trato no dura mucho y al final éstos dos se enfrentan en una última pelea de gallos

The story of a native Mexican who wants to kill a man.

An experimental film in which time breaks again and again at the moment of death, where the seconds become whole lives condemned.

Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.