Martin LaSalle

After her birthday party, a little girl goes to bed looking forward to an amusement-park trip with her grandparents for the next day.

Pablo and Marina wake up in a hotel room and then travel the country together, she accompanies him while he is in the process of writing a traveler's guide. Pablo is a married man with two daughters, while Marina is a college student. During the journey they pass through different points in the relationship, sometimes in full disagreement.

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."

A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Taking as a guiding theme of religion in Latin America, the film shows the pre-Columbian myths, the arrival of the white man, later syncretism and liberation theology. The main theme is the "popular religion". In Latin America this forms a kind of religious sacred territory where millions of Indians seeking refuge. This is repeated in Brazil, where African religions are another impenetrable territory, which also functions as a stronghold, a refuge.

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.

At a museum of Mexico City arrives a perfectly conservated mumie. It is a vampire who has died years ago and who returns to life in search of his lost love Angelique. But unfortunately for him the young woman has met a doctor and fallen in love with him who supplies her with the blood she needs to resist the vampire attacks.

Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village is deciding who will be Christ during the possibly dangerous reenactment of the Crucifixion.

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

Um jovem atrapalhado parte para o Caribe em busca de reconquistar a sua namorada que viajou de férias com seus pais. Mas acaba se metendo numa grande confusão.

Um desanimado veterano do Vietnã, que corre o risco de perder seu sustento, é levado ao limite quando vê imigrantes vietnamitas se mudando para a indústria pesqueira em uma cidade da baía do Texas.

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

Russell Price é um atirado fotógrafo de reportagens que se vê em um dilema entre seu amor pela repórter Claire Stryder e sua amizade pelo marido dela, Alex Grazier. Ele também é torturado pelas incertezas de que caminho seguir quando lhe pedem que tome partido, ao invés de apenas tirar fotos, na guerra entre o governo da Nicarágua e os rebeldes sandinistas. Mas quando perde de vista a objetividade e se envolve na escaramuça, Russell pode perder ambas as batalhas e sua vida, pois ele se vê 'sob fogo cerrado' de todos os lados.

Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

Baseado numa história real. Em setembro de 1973, no Chile, o jornalista americano Charles Horman chega em Santiago com seu amigo Terry Simon para encontrar sua esposa Beth e trazê-la de volta para Nova York com ele. No entanto, eles são surpreendidos pelo golpe militar patrocinado pelo governo dos EUA para substituir o presidente Salvador Allende e Charles é preso pela força militar. Seu pai Ed Horman, um empresário conservador de Nova York, chega no Chile para buscar seu filho desaparecido com Beth. Ele vai ao Consulado Americano para com o cônsul que promete os maiores esforços para encontrar Charles enquanto a cética Beth não confia na palavra das autoridades americanas. O nacionalismo e a confiança de Ed em seu governo muda quando ele encontra a verdade sobre o que aconteceu com seu amado filho.

The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading articles from Ricardo Flores Magon in newspaper Regeneration, organize clandestinely and mutiny against the US, owner of the mine, which is refuses to rescue a group of workers trapped by a landslide.

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.

O pacato vilarejo de Cabo Blanco perde o clima de paz com a chegada de um navio inglês. Um ex-combatente americano, que atualmente mora na região, se vê ameaçado pela beleza de uma viúva e a presença de um ex-oficial nazista, que chegam com a expedição.

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic. (IMDb)

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.

An uncompromising documentary, shot on black and white 16mm, which follows a young sociology student as she undergoes an illegal abortion.

A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.

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.

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

A Jewish family suffers persecution and suffering in the 16th century when they are accused of practicing witchcraft.

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.

A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.

Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.

An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.

A mother and her daughter receive a stranger in their home, who at first has an affair with the mother but then tries to push her aside to seduce the daughter.

Michel é um jovem que começa a bater carteiras por prazer e pela emoção do roubo, e isso vira uma compulsão. Ele é preso, percebe o choque que isso causa em sua mãe e em seus amigos e reflete sobre seus atos. Porém, depois de solto, ele se junta a um ladrão veterano e volta ao crime. Sua consciência pesa, bem como a memória de sua mãe. Também a presença de Jeanne, uma jovem por quem se apaixona, lhe faz pensar em deixar o crime, o que acontece de forma irônica.