Silvia Pinal

Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.

The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.

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.

Crucial outline following the life of a heroin addicted salsa singer.

Tambo Macaw, an overweight macaw who works as a janitor at the Central Intelligentus Animalus (CIA), dreams of becoming a secret agent. His opportunity arises when he is assigned by mistake the most important mission in the agency's history: stop the wicked plans of Mama Bear and her evil organization. Tambo is helped by Jack Tortoise, an old turtle that's in charge of the advanced technology lab in the agency and is one of Tambo's few friends.

Recently widowed, Benito faces the jealousy of his daughters when, reunited by an old ford car, he finds a new love and new meaning for his life.

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.

Life unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live. To tie up the loose ends of her life, she hires a chauffeur to drive her around Mexico City and visit her old haunts. But he does far more than that; instead, he gives her life a much-needed spark and shows her the road to happiness. Alonso Echanove and Raul Araiza Jr. co-star.

Analysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films, Barcelona International Film Festival and Ovideo TV in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). The film won the 1st Prize at the European Biennial for the Conservation of European Cultural Heritage.

It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

Mari Gaila (Silvia Pinal), is an adulteress who lives between ragged, thieves, prostitutes, dwarfs and other misshapen beings, in a rare box at a country and a vague time. Her husband, is a poor sacristan who agrees with other relatives to do business with the display of his orphaned nephew, a mentally retarded dwarf. Caught in committing adultery with her lover, Mari Gaila is caged naked and punished by the people.

A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.

A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.

Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels.

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

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

Near the end of a very long engagement, two lovers break away from each other to cut loose and have one crazy weekend before their wedding.

Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.

Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.

Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.

Young woman looking for a rich husband, sets her sights on a very pious and old-fashioned neighbor.

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

Man develops a reputation as a great bedroom athlete after publishing a 'spicy' novel.

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.

1746년 멕시코, 현상수배로 쫓기던 리온 알라스트라이는 급한 김에 성역인 프란체스코수도성당에 뛰어들어 정부군으로부터 벗어난다. 요셉신부는 알라스트라이를 당국에 인도하는 것을 거부하고 형벌로써 그를 이곳에서 멀리 떨어진 마을 세바스찬으로 보내기로 한다. 수도사의 복장으로 변장한 알라스트라이는 요셉신부와 함께 멕시코사막을 가로질러 황량한 마을에 도착하지만, 그 곳은 야키족 인디언들에 의하여 약탈당하고 있었다. 그들에 의하여 요셉신부가 죽으면서, 마을로 되돌아온 주민들은 알라스트라이를 성직자로 오인한다. 야키족과 손을 잡은 혼혈인 테클로는 마을사람들에게 그들의 신앙을 포기하지 않으면 더욱 거센 인디언의 공격이 있을 거라며 협박한다. 알라스트라이가 성직자가 아니라는 것을 알고 있는 마을의 한 소녀 키니타는 알라스트라이가 교수형을 당할 위기에서 구해주고 그에게 마을의 정신적인 지도자가 되어 달라고 설득한다. 알라스트라이는 농부들이 그들의 농작물을 위하여 관개시설을 확보하기 위해 댐을 건설하는데 협력을 하고 야키족이 다시 공격할 걸 예상하여 무기와 탄약을 얻기 위해 한 때 자신의 연인이었던 사령관의 아내 펠리치아를 움직인다. 마침내 인디언들이 마을을 기습하지만, 그들은 용감하게 반항하는 농민들과 알라스트라이의 댐 폭파에 의하여 대패하고 만다. 그리고 알라스트라이는 테클로와의 대결에서 그를 죽인다. 잠시 후, 정부군이 산세바스찬을 위해 진짜 성직자와 함께 도착하자, 알라스트라이에게 감사하게 생각하는 마을 사람들은 그와 키니타가 도주할 수 있게 돕는다

While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity

Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.

신에게 좀더 가까이 다가가려는 열망으로 사막 한가운데의 기둥 위에서 살았던 4세기의 유명한 성인 시몬을 다룬 부뉴엘의 ‘종교’ 영화. 기둥 위에서 고행을 계속하려는 시몬을 땅으로 내려오게 하려고, 악마가 여러 가지 모습으로 나타나 유혹한다. 몇 차례의 유혹에 계속 실패한 악마는 결국 시몬을 현대의 나이트클럽으로 데려간다. 생에 대한 에너지가 넘치는 악마와 원초적인 욕망을 억누른 채 살아가는 고행자의 대비를 통해, 종교의 엄숙주의를 풍자하고 있다. (서울아트시네마)

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.

Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.

멕시코의 부유한 귀족 노빌은 라 프로빈시아 가의 저택에 친구들을 초대한다. 저녁만찬에서는 계속해서 이상한 일들이 일어난다. 하인들은 이유를 설명하지 않고 나가버리고 피아노 소나타가 연주되는 동안 귀부인의 핸드백에서는 닭다리 두 개가 나온다. 그러나 손님들은 저택을 떠날 생각을 하지 못하고 일종의 감금상태에 놓이게 된다. 다음날 아귀가 엄습하면서 사회적 위치와 지위의 위선 속에 숨겨진 본성들이 당면한 어려운 상황 앞에서 철저히 붕괴되어가고 사람들은 인간으로서의 본성을 드러내게 된다.

수녀원에서 생활하던 비리디아나는 수녀가 되기 전 마지막으로 후원자인 아저씨를 방문한다. 후원자는 비리디아나가 신혼 첫날 밤 안타깝게 죽은 아내를 빼닮은 것에 마음이 흔들려 그녀를 잠재워 겁탈을 시도한다. <최후의 만찬>을 패러디한 장면으로 유명한 루이스 부뉴엘의 설명이 필요없는 걸작.

The famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother.

The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family.

Silvia Pinal stars as Beatriz, a woman whose troubles are brought on by the fact that she has two wildly different suitors.

Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society.

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.

Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.

Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake. Lookie-here, Mr. Right just came along! (But he's got his own comical baggage.)

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.

Man wants to dump wife for a new girlfriend; all three end up weekending in Acapulco together along with a gentleman the wife meets enroute, and all four explore the possibility of forming new relationships.

After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.

The whaling captain, Antonio Grez, meets in a bar in the port of Valparaiso a very beautiful woman who lives haunted by the tragic premonition that fate will give her a violent death. Grez takes command of a whaler bound for Cape Horn and Antarctica. In Punta Arenas, the owner of the whaling company embarks on together with his fiancee, who is none other than the mysterious woman with whom Grez has fallen in love. The final route of the ship is the 'Land of Desolation', a place on which there is a curse and everyone knows that, for centuries, is has been fulfilled inexorably.

The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.

Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.

Anthology film, four episodes.

Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.

Young woman returns home from her travels and discovers that her mother's new husband is up to no good.

Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.

Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.

A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.

Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.

Mad-science/comedy scenario about reviving the corpse of an Egyptian mummy morphs into a love story set in ancient Egypt.

When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".

To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love.

Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.

Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz.

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.

Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.

Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on.

Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.

Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.

Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.

Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.