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.
Vieja Paniagua
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawing attention to the pachuco movement through his character Tin Tan, laying the groundwork for a new form of binational and mass linguistic expression: Spanglish. He soon became a leading figure in theater and film on the American Continent. Singled out by critics as a destroyer of the language, he quickly won the approval of the public. His ability to improvise revolutionized the film industry. His talent as an actor, singer, dancer and comedian contributed to the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. From El Hijo Desobediente to Capitán Mantarraya, from Cuidad Juárez to Havana, from mambo to rock, the legacy of Tin Tan makes him one of the great icons of Mexico today. This film tells his story as it has never been told before.
Diamantina
The very elegant Marsella comes to Mexico from Transylvania and is hired by Diamantina to work in her bar as a showgirl. She develops a relationship with one of the disco's choreographers, but things get complicated when she discovers that multiple men are in love with her. If that's not enough, chaos ensues when her international lover, who turns out to be a vampire, comes to Mexico to take her back with him.
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
A group of heirs show up at a farm to collect an inheritance and are killed off one-by-one. A low budget direct-to-DVD release with loads of cameos from both veteran actors and World Cup soccer players.
A hybrid action slasher film.
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
Two grown orphans disguised as nuns attempt to foil a Mexican drug cartel.
Helen Brown
On 28 Feb 1993, the ATF organized a raid on the Davidian ranch in a rural area near Waco, Texas. The raid was carried out because of the alleged illegal presence of weapons on the property, resulting in the deaths of four agents and five Davidians.
By night, Esteban (Sebastian Ligarde) is an assassin for the mob. By day, Esteban is a pimp and his boss explains to him that the demand right now are prostitutes that are very average looking. He manages to find one girl and her name is Julia (Vanessa Yudic). Julia is a young secretary who mostly keeps to herself, but still longs for a good man in her life. Julia at first is contemplated by the job offer Esteban has offered her considering it's prostitution, but since she's very attracted to Esteban, she takes the job and let's him take fully advantage of her and her innocence. Julia, young, naive, and virginal, thinks Esteban really loves her because she gives herself up to him. She thinks all that he does is out of love and "tough" love.
Slasher thriller from Mexico.
The relatives of a recently deceased rich man are after his money, but his butler is trying to stop that from happening.
Lilia
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected...
Mil Máscaras leads a group of wrestlers who take on a challenge in the ring from karate fighters at a martial arts school, while at the same time grappling with an ambitious promoter and a corrupt media businessman. This film was written and produced by Mil Máscaras under his real name of Aarón Rodríguez and features appearances by some well known luchadors including Blue Demon Jr., Dos Caras ( Mil Máscara's real-life brother) and Hombre Araña, who dresses as the comic book hero Spider-Man.
Dean's Mother
The forces of evil threaten Monterrey but are opposed by a flying superhero named Mágico.
Inmate
Martha is a single woman who becomes pregnant and commits suicide after giving birth to a pair of twins, Jessica and Angelica, who are adopted separately. Years later, Angelica becomes a lawyer working for the mafia. Jessica, who was adopted by a prostitute, has become a criminal and is now arrested for the murder of her husband. In prison she tries to be friends with the director without success and she has to pay her sentence.
Julissa
Madre de Bertha
Softcore sex-farce about a guy with a really big lump in his underpants...and all the women who flock to him.
Estela
A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.
Punks kill people and rape people and stuff... and cops kinda do their own thing... and there's boobs and blood and motorcycles... the end.
Adult daughter has to pose as a man to protect her father's business concerns.
Mexican feature film
Mexican feature film
Woman on the Street
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.
Satanás
A notorious killer dies in the electric chair in a maximum security prison. So great was his evil that Satan offers him a deal. He will get to go back to Earth as long as he sacrifices people to the devil and carves 666 on them somewhere. The guy, of course, accepts and gets reborn in the body of a drug dealer. He begins a trail of carnage that lasts throughout the movie.
The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have boyfriend troubles, and all the women band together to vote their own representative into City Hall as Mayor.
Virgencita
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.
Mexican feature film
Micaela
Mexican feature film
Mexican feature film
La Roja
The legend of "Peter The Knife" continues in this popular sequel to one of Mexico's all-time blockbusters. Following in his infamous father's footsteps, Peter, Jr. manages to get more than his fair share of the love of beautiful women...and the hatred of his enemies. Action and drama from New York to Acapulco.
Aída
Stranger with a dark past infects a small-town girl with HIV, and the contagion spreads out from there. Public health officials get involved...
Mina
Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained frenzy.
Two little boys grow up and go after the two blackhats that killed their parents.
Mexican feature film
Roberto y su nueva familia estan pasando por dificultades economicas por lo que decide formar otra vez su vieja banda y comienzan a tratar de organizar algunos robos que resultan mal. La esposa de Roberto y su abuelita recurren al engaño disfrazandose de monjitas para poder vender galletas y rompope, sin embargo la abuelita hace de las suyas y se meten en problemas.
An alcoholic grandfather is seriously ill. His doctor suggests that experiencing a bad scare could cure him. His grandson volunteers to help him.
Andrea Orsini
After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good for nothing, and took refuge in the cabaret ends up working as a transvestite.
Ambitious, insensitive mother blocks daughter's marriage by telling her fiance a lie about her.
Roja
Based on the international hit song, Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife) is the story of the coolest, street smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City. The police are after him, his rivals are after him, and all the while the most beautiful women of Mexico are in the cup of his hand. - Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Aurora
Andrea
Mexican feature film
Mexican feature film
Young woman's character flaws and aristocratic pretensions become an obstacle when she falls in love and decides to marry. Numerous lives are ruined.
Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.
Mexican feature film
Patricia
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
Coneja
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.
Roberto es un ladrón que le hace creer a su hijo Pepito y a todos sus vecinos que es un honesto Mecánico. La güerita recién llegada a la vecindad es la muchacha de la que Roberto se ha enamorado. Pero Roberto tiene una doble vida, ya que también es Bobby "El elagante" jefe de una banda de ladrones, quienes siempre fallan en todos sus robos y juntos se ven envueltos en persecuciones graciosas y equivocaciones constantes. Una divertida comedia para toda la familia.
Irene
Mexican feature film
A group of women visit a nightclub. They are all attracted to him main dancer and try to win him over without the others knowing. Him taking advantage the situation, create a plan to manipulate them.
Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...
Diva
Little girl with very visible spinal injury is given second-class treatment by her able-bodied family. Years pass...
Hilda
Mexican comedian Alfonso Zayas is just one of the many folks in town who are cheating on their spouses, imagining themselves quite clever and secretive, even while unbeknownst to them their spouses are cheating on them in turn! When one of the many women with whom Zayas has a child dies tragically, he attempts to integrate his daughter into one of his other families, calling her his goddaughter. But when his son falls in love with her, the many sexual escapades around town threaten to take a disturbing turn for the worse.
Lola
Power-struggles between gangsters over ownership/control of a strip club.
A crossdresser who robs victims of nightclubs is caught and sent to a women's prison.
Lola
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't work, they hatch a kidnapping scheme, and the movie shifts its focus to the rich people who have been profiting off their poverty.
Self
Josefina
Two sisters buy an old dark house, soon they discover it's haunted.
Elisa de Iriarte
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
Triumphs and cock-block episodes in the social life of an obsessive horndog.
Madre de Pedrito
About a nymphomaniac and an artist that constantly spies on her.
A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife.
Subsistance-farmer emigrates to the city in search of opportunity, loses contact with his wife and children.
At The Play Boy strip club, everybody's got a story. Owners, employees, customers...
La Señora
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
Tulita
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
Camelia
Two criminals, Emilio and Camelia try to smuggle drugs into the USA.
Wild-partying hippie-artist-dilettantes end up forming a revolutionary terrorist cell. The misfit Gato loses a lot of money in bets and his father throws him out of his house. Ál leaves his girlfriend Laura for his lover, the married Adriana. Out of money Gato and Ál becomes urban guerrilla when they plan to kidnap Gato's rich father.
Mexican feature film
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
Concepción
Austreberta 'Betita' Rentería
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
She's got a sugar-daddy paying her bills, and while she's stringing him along, she meets somebody her own age that she reallytruly falls in love. And it turns out he's the son of her rich dude.
Mamá de Dario
Two young people are in love, but at the same time very confused about sex, love and the world.
Gabriela
A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.
Josefa de los Rios, Fuensanta
Diana Avelar
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
Gloria (segment "Gloria")
Clarence Gaynor
Countess De Negrescu
Elenita (segment "La puerta")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Laura
The Secret Agent Lafargue locates the evil Professor Marcus headquarters, who with the help of Dr. Bellini and an android of his invention, plan to conquer the world. Lafargue is discovered and severely injured, so he is unable to remember where it is the basis of Marcus or what their plan. To resolve this situation the authorities call the Agent Zero team.
Martha Duval
Monica
After returning from a party, Angela finds herself locked in her house with two unknown women, while a homeless man lurks outside.
Eva
Mexican medical researchers are lost in a plane crash in the Amazon basin, which triggers a whole bunch of adventure-movie subplots.
Vicki
Vicky loves Ricardo but Ricardo loves Barbara. So, Vicky goes to a gypsy witch who convinces her she must make a pact with Satan in order to cast an effective love spell on Ricardo. After Vicky gives her body and soul to the Dark One, she engages with Ricardo in a passionate night of lovemaking that is cut short by Satan, who, sensing that Ricardo has not completely fallen under the spell, orders Vicky to kill him. Following Ricardo's death, his brother Carlos is haunted by nightmares of the dead sibling, who appears and takes possession of Carlos in order to get his revenge on Vicky.
A story of teenage love set against the backdrop of the 60's, filmed on the picturesque tropical beaches of Puerto Rico. A classic Latino love story, asking the timeless question -- whether it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
Isabel
An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
Marta / Xochiquétzal
A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists.
Susana
Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
Ana Maria
Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.
Herself
Estelita
Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon!
Lucy
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
Ana Garcilazo
Rosa "Tacón Dorado"
The days go by dizzyingly for the girls who work at the cabaret ´El Paraíso´. However, on New Year's Eve, in the heat of the glasses and cigarette smoke, they narrate their hapless destinies
Ana la Tobillera / Ana
Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
Rosaura
Laura Moreno / Vicky
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
Marta
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Maruja Valverde
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
Beatriz Cifuentes (Beatrice Forsythe - English dubbed version)
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
Marta Linares
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Young nightclub performer, down on her luck, falls in with a portrait-cartoonist who works the streets and a terminally-ill singer-songwriter and goes to live on their houseboat. They consider doing a crime.
Bailarina
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Josafina
In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. The ruthless fugitives then kill his son, and harm his shipmate, sending the pilot, himself an ex-smuggler into such a rage that he kills two gang members and helps police capture the survivors and bring them to justice.
Ana / Lucy Morán
Beautiful woman with disfiguring facial scars learns to cope.
Marta
Martha
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
Ernestina
Esther
Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
Cecilia
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
Maria Teresa
Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.
Berta
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
Raquel
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
Silvia
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
Lidia Montes
Aquitanian
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
