Anything can happen to a foreigner who travels to meet his fiancée.
Feature film located at the beginning of the 20th-century which tells the story of the town "La Esperanza", whose dying mining boom receives a fatal blow.
Chuy
Still drunk from the previous night, Ricardo stumbles into his apartment ready to keep the party going with a friend, only to find his family who have prepared an intervention for him.
Felix
Uma jovem desesperada e solitária aluga seu útero para engravidar de um casal de estranhos. Porém, um acidente acontece e ela toma medidas extremas para cumprir sua parte do acordo.
Banche
As Tania leaves her hometown, she must confront what her absence will mean in the search for her disappeared father.
Javier
Sarai aos 14 anos foi levada para viver no México em um quartel de drogas. Anos se passaram e quando um misterioso americano aparece no complexo que vive, ela vê nele sua chance de escapar, entretanto nada acontece como o esperado e ela acaba virando vítima em seu próprio jogo.
El Licenciado
Poucos dias antes da visita ao México do presidente dos Estados Unidos, Filiberto García, veterano da revolução mexicana, é recrutado pela polícia mexicana para investigar uma suposta conspiração dos mongóis para assassinar o Presidente John F. Kennedy.
Police Officer
Após sua amiga Suzu ter desaparecido em Tijuana, Gloria Meyer (Gina Rodriguez) se torna o peão em um perigoso jogo entre a CIA, a DEA e um carismático chefe do crime.
Prisoner González dedicates his life-in-jail to narrate the adventures of Pepe Frituras, one of the most renowned Mexican dancers who lost his freedom due to a night of partying. Through stories that integrate music and dance, he will tell the exploits of a prisoner who achieved freedom through his imagination.
Maestro Osiris
Paz, a kind woman, has allowed everyone around her to treat her as if she were worth nothing, keeping silent so as not to hurt feelings. Until one day, in her head, a phenomenon forces her to express what she feels.
Librado Chavez
Cinebiografia do ativista pelos direitos humanos e ícone popular Cesar Chavez.
Hapi
Após desmaiar em uma rua no México após uma noite de bebedeira em uma festa, uma agente consular é salva por Alejandro, um cantor de mariachi a quem ela negou um visto no dia anterior. Ela, porém, não se lembra de ter negado o visto.
President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.
Juan Orol
Juan orol nasceu em Galicia, España, ao final do século XIX. Quando era criança, sua mãe o enviou para CUba, em busca dum familiar que nunca encontrou. Ele cresceu selvagem jogando ao baseball, boxeu, carreira de carros... e terminou sendo policia.
Viejo Paniagua
Um jovem rapaz é adotado pelo carteiro. Em suas tarefas diárias, eles não só devem entregar o correio, mas ler as cartas para os moradores, já que a maioria são analfabetos.
Carnal
Um criminoso americano que ultrapassa a fronteira entre Estados Unidos e México durante a fuga de um roubo a banco. Ele acaba preso pelas autoridades mexicanas e enviado para um presídio lotado de bandidos de alta periculosidade. Não bastasse essa experiência bizarra, ele acaba se envolvendo com uma família local e se metendo numa grande enrascada em terras estrangeiras porque a bandidagem agora quer a pele dele. Para sobreviver na prisão, ele terá que aceitar a ajuda de um garoto de apenas 9 anos (Kevin Hernandez), com quem irá planejar sua fuga.
It is the final decade of the 18th century in New Spain. We are in Mexico City, inhabited by local adventurers, native inhabitants and Europeans of every kind. In these surroundings, our characters, Jerónimo Marani, court choreographer, Giovanni, his mestizo son, and Victoria, the daughter of the most prominent family in the city, who is in love with Giovanni, live a life of love and aversion, court intrigue and popular grievances, Viceregal dogmas and dreams of freedom. Mexico´s war of independence is only a few years in the future.
A soldier dies during the Mexican Revolution.
Mauro Hernandez, a young preventive policeman, gets involved in a coke deal, and to keep some of the money he has for paying for the transaction, gives his gun away to cover the deal. He argues to Joaquin, old drug dealer and ex-policeman and ends up threatening him. On his way out of the operation, Mauro and his partner policemen, a gang controlled by Joaquin, stop their way out start a wrangle where Mauro is wounded. His body armor couldn´t even stop a small touch of the knife. The scandal on the bad quality of body armors turns into an investigation of malversation of police funds which is exaggerated and misreported by the media. Apparently made in 2009, but not released until 2011.
Lulú
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles.
Luis
Três universitários do Texas decidem atravessar a fronteira para festejar a chegada da formatura com muita farra, mas um deles acaba sendo raptado para participar de um ritual macabro. Baseado numa história real.
Taxista
Based on the novel by Carlos Trejo - which is supposedly based on true events -, the film retells the story of a group of friends that played the Ouija one night together and started to die one by one in mysterious ways. The only survivor was the real-life author, Carlos Trejo. -Edgar Cochran-
Horacio
A comedy about ties that can bind... or strangle. A successful businessman from gathers together his childhood friends with whom he played on a Little League baseball team called The Cannibals, to give them some news. Far from what the friends imagine, the news ends up showing the true reason for the meeting and puts their friendship on the line.
Hugo becomes a man when he challenges the sea to a football game
Lopaka
Lopaka is a rather simple looking dude, but he controls all the drug pushing, gangs and whores.
Skinny Mexican Man
Bem no estilo Tarantino, com muita violência, O Matador nos traz dois tipos opostos procurando uma saída para seus problemas. Em um bar na Cidade do México, dois profissionais de ramos diferentes se encontram: Danny é um vendedor cujas finanças e casamento estão na pior e Julian é um assassino de aluguel que se diverte como pode, sem pensar nas consequências. Os dois estão em crise: o bom cidadão não está progredindo muito na vida e o seu oposto, o fora da lei, depois de anos matando sem pestanejar, começa a desenvolver uma consciência. Eles acham amizade onde ninguém poderia imaginar e se ajudam de forma surpreendente.
Daniel Sanchez
Uma grande onda de sequestros e criminalidade varre a Cidade do México, fazendo com que muitos de seus cidadãos mais ricos contratem guarda-costas para seus filhos. John Creasy é um ex-agente da CIA. Sem emprego e bebendo mais do que deveria, ele aceita a proposta de ser guarda-costas da pequena Pita, uma garota de 9 anos que é filha de um industrial. O sequestro de Pita faz com que ele, mesmo ferido, parta para resgatá-la a qualquer custo.
Vicente
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Chavo pelo rojo
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
Head Thug
When her brother disappears during a brief travel layover in Mexico, Mitch begins a desperate search that will eventually lead the young divorcee into the capital city's most notorious neighborhood. But even with the aid of the American Ambassador, her plight is only met with indifference and inaction from the authorities. As the story unfolds, Mitch is forced to look for help in the least likely places as she races against time in a dangerous quest to find answers and locate her brother.
Beginning and ending with the endless promises of Mexican politicians, Barrio 13 is a film based on the daily life of many Mexicans and Central Americans who struggle with the current realities: poverty, despair, misery and political betrayal.
Marco Antonio Gutiérrez
When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is assisted by his photographer girlfriend María, and they are trapped in a web of torture, prostitution, corruption and power struggle.
Victor Hugo
The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.
Comedy about different forms of love in this busy period in which we live. Two pairs of great friends celebrate together their weddings. Between drunkenness and friendship , things get confused. Will love defeat guilt? A prominent businessman lives unbeatable location : it has a beautiful lover, a new job, and wants a child with your partner. But she discovers that she cheats on him . Is a type of self- love?
Gimeno
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
The Thief
Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.
Drug Addict I
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.)
Pedro
Um novato ingénuo na patrulha rodoviária mexicana precisa se adaptar para sobreviver, enquanto enfrenta perigosos traficantes de drogas e corrupção generalizada.
Salvador
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
Cascabel / Araino
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.
Sacramento
In a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.
Duende
A single mother sells clothes on the streets to support her daughter in Mexico City after the earthquake.
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'
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Lisandro
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones.
Candy
A Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor
Boy
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
Leper
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
Few Fleas
As últimas 24 horas na vida de Geoffrey Firmin, um cônsul inglês solitário e deprimido que se retira ao álcool para se consolar. Em um cenário de guerra na Europa e na festa mexicana do Dia da Morte, somos levados em um dia na vida de Geoffrey Firmin, um cônsul britânico que vive em abandono e obscuridade alcoólica em uma pequena cidade do sul do México em 1939. O comportamento autodestrutivo do cônsul, talvez uma metáfora para uma civilização ameaçada, é uma fonte de perplexidade e tristeza para seu meio-irmão nômade idealista, Hugh, e sua ex-esposa, Yvonne, que retornaram com esperanças de curar Geoffrey e o casamento desfeito. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Invitado en Fiesta
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.
Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant she owns.
Directed by Federico Weingartshofer
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Short produced by TV Azteca, starring José Alonso, Leonor Bonilla and Sergio Bonilla