Blu-ray. 2020 release, the long-awaited follow-up collection of extraordinary 3-D wonders, including the feature-length El Corazón y la Espada, all expertly restored in a Blu-ray world premiere. For over 35 years, it has been the mission of the 3-D Film Archive to locate, save, assemble, and restore previously lost 3-D films. 3-D Rarities, Volume II spans over 40 years of international 3-D film production, and is appropriately presented in three segments.
A story of survival and triumph of the human spirit.
After group of racist cops from Texas kill his brother, a young Mexican man stands up to the corrupt bunch in this action-drama.
Jesús was framed for a crime he didn't commit, he serves his sentence and then goes home to get revenge.
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
Two street criminals have to leave Mexico City in a hurry; they end up in Monterrey, getting involved in a labor dispute in the busdriver's union while still trying to stay one step ahead of the law.
Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.
Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress.
Mexican feature film
This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.
Arms/drug smuggler wants Maria to take care of his puppies... but he also has reasons to kill off most of her menfolk family members, one or two at a time.
Office Clerk (segment "Los Compadres")
A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover.
Padre Martin
At the highest place in Tarahumaran mountain, a Shaman was brutally murdered. The investigation leads detective Aguilar to ask for help to a veterinarian and a priest, to find out that the crime is just the beginning of a series of brutal murders by a nahual (Wolfman)
After her family all are killed in a home invasion, young woman moves to the city, gets involved with a high-level drug-smuggling tycoon. And also a taxi driver.
Escaping from an abusive stepfather, a young woman decides to cross the border as an undocumented worker. She ends up working on a farm where things aren't what they seem...
Don David (uncredited)
Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers of both of them turn up in town. Adaptation of A Comedy Of Errors.
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
A couple is attacked bu thugs and the woman is killed, the boyfriend plans his revenge.
A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.
Antiguo jardinero
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago.
Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.
Licenciado
"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
Aspiring actress finds herself sidetracked from her goals when she gets romanced-up by her director. It's all downhill from there.
Don Francisco Gómez
Champion racehorse is kidnapped, ends up on a ranch in Durango, running dirt-road races at the county fair.
Domestic melodrama about infidelity set against an illegal immigration/"making a better life" background.
Don David
Juan Gabriel became one of the most popular Mexican singer-songwriters, beginning his career in this Ciudad Juárez cabaret. This is his story.
Pablo Ruiz
Padre Ignacio
An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.
Power-struggles between gangsters over ownership/control of a strip club.
Felipe goes home for a holiday and discovers that everything in town has changed in his absence; old don So-and-so is running around forcing people to sell their farms to him and killing them if they refuse.
Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience members.
Young man becomes a professional gambler to track down the cardshark that killed his father in a poker game.
Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life.
General Roque Peñaranda
Thomas
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. When Jim Jones becomes increasingly obsessed with the belief that the CIA is "a wicked enemy" who is out to get him, he emigrates with his congregation to Guyana, where he plans to create a utopia. But Jim Jones' utopia consists of a society where he demands his followers turn their minds, bodies and possessions over to him, one that is rife with orgies, physical violence, mental torture, and sexual abuse of children and adults. Ultimately, Jim Jones' paranoia reaches a fevered pitch that culminates in him taking savage action against his own congregation. (VCI Home Video)
President
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)
The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up.
Viejo Joaquín
Mexican feature film
Virrey Don Martín Gómez de Peralta y Montellano
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
The town's leading families decide to step down and let average citizens take responsibility for city government, from Mayor on down.
Jaime Rovelo
Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.
Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf.
(uncredited)
Pedro, a young black man born into a family of Haitians who emigrated to Cuba, returns to his town and notes the changes that the new times have brought.
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventures.
Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all to further her plans.
Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.
Brazos
A drama, western film.
The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation.
Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.
Rogelio González
Martina is a liberal woman who arrives to a small town, with his godfather. Here, Martina will met with her secret love, a typical "macho-ranchero" man, demanding her hand in matrimony. But he rejects Martina, claiming that she's not virgin and will return her to the godfather. When the godfather dies, Martina finds herself alone, and she'll begin a sexual adventure with almost the last men in the town, even with the shy chaplain.
Grandpa
A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.
In a spectacular manhunt, a band of outlaws race cross-country with a million dollars and a newly married couple. A dramatic story of greed and sexual passion for the possession of a large fortune and the love of a brave and beautiful woman.
German Dominguez
Elena's sterile and her younger cousin Raquel gets pregnant before marriage.They scream at each other a lot.
A rich and powerful man is married to a much younger woman, who has a lover.
(segment "La insaciable")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
Mauricio Garcés plays a composer who tries to seduce several women. The actor performs the song "Soy tan hermoso", which became a popular hit a t the time.
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.
Don Félix Pereira
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.
Antonio Fuentes
M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
Iván
Cops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship.
Three bad dudes are each hot for Lupe. They kill a guy while committing some crimes together, and that guy's brother goes gunning for them. Eventually, he meets Lupe; she helps him track down the killers and a thing develops between them.
The bodies of murdered young women are turning up on a beach.
General León Balarraza, agregado militar
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Don Félix Pereira
A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
Villano
From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles.
TV Host
Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Comandante
Lurid crime drama about drug traffic.
Deputy
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
Flavio
The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
Tío Lorenzo
Two young women need a hired gun to protect their ranch from marauders; the feistier of the two arranges for a gunman who has the right stuff to be busted out of jail so he can work for them.
College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters.
Masked justice on horseback, again: guy plays it meek & mild in his civilian identity so no-one will suspect him of being Mr. Cowboy Hero.
Juez
Chief of police fakes his death and returns as a masked avenger. On horseback. And stuff.
A mature woman looks for a judge to hand over after having murdered a man and recounts everything that happened. Sequel to "Historia de un canalla".
Judge Enrique
A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him.
Arcadio
A mechanical marries a young but both lose their jobs and happiness again when they know they are expecting a child.
Marqués Gonzalo Guzmán de la Serna
A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
Don Raúl
Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
Braulio Contreras
After being gunned down in a bar-fight, a guy reappears in town looking for revenge on his murderer.
Raúl
После роскошного званого ужина гости вдруг обнаруживают, что в силу каких-то таинственных причин не могут выйти из столовой. Проходит день, другой, и множества тщательно выстроенных фасадов и поз — как не бывало. Исчезают без следа понятия о приличиях, обусловленных положением в обществе, люди опускаются до примитивного животного состояния.
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
Wrestling melodrama.
General Prisciliano Sánchez
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
General Ignacio Aguirre
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
Edmundo
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Carlos
Mauricio flees from the police and takes refuge in the apartment of Ivonne, who gives him blood to save his life. Carlos the policeman who is in love with her, finds Mauricio's passport and has the inspector offer 10 thousand pesos to whoever turns him in. Mauricio confesses to Ivonne that he is innocent of the crime, and asks her to marry him.
General Ramírez
Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.
Gangsters kidnap the writer of a crime-drama radio program to plot their heists for them.
Manuel Rangel "El Garbanzo"
One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they think about marriage! Mom and Pop have their own #firstworldproblems.
Ernesto
Chenko
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
Toro
A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever.
Lupe Avilés
After the death of her father, María returns to her hometown with Maria, her mother. Lupo and Beto fall in love with her, two brothers whose family is at odds with hers. While Beto tries to rape her, Lupo becomes the girl's protector.
Boris
Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain.
Don Gabriel
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
El dandy
Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.
Ingeniero Raúl Fuentes
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
Ponce de León
In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph. Don Pedro’s accomplice is Juan Ponce de León, who intends to steal the "Rose of Granada," a rare gem owned by the Caliph, which supposedly contains a rare essence that ensures eternal youth.
Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.
Rom-com in charro hats.
Julio Mistral
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.
Gustavo Alonso
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
Gustavo Alonso
Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd.
The story of the 1917 miracle of Fatima, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children--two girls and one boy..
Alberto Suárez
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Producer
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
General
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
Rodrigo del Paso
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Santiago
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
Lucio Saenz
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Brother and sister bumpkins move to the big city, where they fall into the orbit of a gigolo-pimp type.
Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
Máximo
This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster’s moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Víctor Parra.
Juan José, chofer
Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.
El perfumes
Don Arnulfo Cacho
A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets!
MexRev era -- soldier falls in love with the woman who killed his brother, then discovers her role in his back-story.
Don Manuel Lazo
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
Ernesto Serrano
Concentration Camp survivor tries to start over with a new identity.
Standard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.
Mexican movie
Mexican movie
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
Carmelo
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
Judas Iscariote
The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.
Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.
Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
Andrés
Social Justice Warriors. On Horseback. Wearing Dia de los Muertos costumes.
Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.
Mexican movie
Capitán Rogenio
Mexican movie
Armando Silva
Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
(uncredited)
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Pablo
Ranchera melodrama/romance.
The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...
Third in a series; flashbacks remind us of the beef El Charro had with Carlos from his home town. While they move toward a final showdown, Carlos and his new evil buddy Rodolfo kill a couple more people just for kicks.
Luciano Debray
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Márquez
Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.
General Francisco de Paula Santander
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
Rodolfo (uncredited)
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
En nene
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is confronted by the unpleasant surprise that her dad has been assassinated by the malicious municiple government, which has the whole town in a clutch of terror. "An excellent sharp-shooter is worth more here, than a good lawyer..." This phrase inspires lawyer Leonardo Torres to convert himself into a guardian of justice, who will defend the right of the weak against tyranny. Nobody would ever guess that the "timid" lawyer is in reality none other than the dreadful "Zorro of Jalisco."
Fermín
(uncredited)
Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
Soldado (uncredited)
Historical drama, French occupation of the 1830s.
Cliente en cabaret (uncredited)
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
