Ana Ofelia Murguía

12-летний Мигель живет в мексиканской деревушке в семье сапожников и тайно мечтает стать музыкантом. Тайно — потому что в его семейном клане музыка считается проклятием. Когда-то его прадед оставил свою жену, прабабку Мигеля, ради мечты, которая теперь не дает спокойно жить Мигелю. С тех пор музыкальная тема в семье стала табу. Мигель обнаруживает, что между ним и его любимым певцом Эрнесто де ла Крусом, ныне покойным, существует некая — пока неназванная — связь. Паренек отправляется к своему кумиру в Страну Мертвых, где встречает души своих предков. Коко знакомится там с духом-трикстером по имени Эктор (в облике скелета), который становится его напарником-проводником. Вдвоем они отправляются на поиски де ла Круса.

There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscience) and commit a transgression (murder and infidelity). When the lights come on, conscious of what they have done, they must atone for their sin.

Ramona's compulsive life becomes a wreck when she finds out, after a long search that Osvaldo, her only son, has died.

A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in going the right way? An offbeat, allegorical odyssey that blends absurd humor with pastoral imagery. A young man and a dead man journey north through a subtly surreal desert landscape, picking up a wagonful of odd characters as they go in this darkly humorous satire of contemporary Mexico. Written by TIFF LAFF

A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease.

Действие происходит в 1930-х годах спустя два десятилетия после Мексиканской революции. Каталина Гузман рассказывает историю своей жизни и своего брака с амбициозным генералом Андресом Асенсио. Соблазнив её и женившись, он занимает пост генерал-губернатора, а она выполняет роль светской дамы. Полностью отдавшись политической карьере мужа, Каталина преданна ему, несмотря на его любовницу и детей, которых ей приходится воспитывать. Зрелой женщиной она влюбляется в молодого дирижёра и левого активиста Карлоса Вивеса, который становится её самой большой любовью и трагедией.

A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!

Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.

Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up friendless, save the family's hired hand Melquíades. Though most figured she would end up as a prostitute, she is married off to Isidro, the local police chief. Cruel and petty, this ogre of a man brutalizes her and eventually infects her with venereal disease, rendering her sterile. With the help of Melquíades, Otilia takes a series of lovers to spite her husband. One day, the wounded Ruben -- a wanted outlaw -- staggers onto her doorstep and immediately she is in love. Much to Melquíades' chagrin, she harbors and tends to the criminal as her husband is out hunting for him.

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer investigating the disappearance of the murdered body and an architect hired to design the mausoleum to the memory of the possible dictator.

A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the 19th century president of Mexico who, in 1847, waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory

In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.

On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.

An elderly couple spends together the afternoon in their living room. Suddenly she breaks the silence.

Эсмеральда замужем за пятью мужчинами одновременно, и теперь ей предстоит объяснить судье, как это вышло.

Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.

Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying into a rich clan that they throw the best wedding ever, even if they can't afford it. When the father (Damián Alcázar) loses the money to pay for the musician, mayhem ensues. The film itself is made to look like a videotaping of the wedding, revealing who's responsible for the crime.

История несчастной алкоголички Глории Дукью, бедной проститутки в Мехико. Первые кадры с ней – оральный секс с несколькими барыгами, когда они толкают наркотики. Что-то идет не так и два коррумпированных правительственных агента и местный бандит погибают. Она улетает в Мадрид, в родной город…

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.

Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.

Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.

Хоакина стареет в небольшой мексиканской деревне 1920-х годов. Ее жизнь скучна, и она проводит свои дни мечтая о своем герое — ковбое Томе Миксе. Все, что Хоакина хочет, это встретиться с ним. Ее жизнь меняется, когда куча бандитов появляется рядом. Это время для Тома Микса, чтобы остановить воров и исполнить мечты Хоакины о приключении.

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers.

Представьте: обшарпанные стены домов, вездесущие армейские патрули, неожиданные ночные визиты военных и внесудебные расстрелы неугодных – таков Парагвай 1974 года. Энтони Хопкинс играет известного парагвайского врача – Джоела Филартигу. По слухам, он пользуется расположением самого Стресснера и считается чуть ли не его личным другом. Это помогает ему чувствовать себя в относительной безопасности и говорить больше, чем положено остальным. Естественно, это многим не нравится. Однако доктор Филартига спокоен: влиятельные покровители и известность за границей – гарант его безопасности. Трагическая гибель сына расставляет всё по своим местам: при кровавой диктатуре никто не застрахован. Официальное заключение о смерти настолько неправдоподобно, что доктору хватает одного беглого взгляда на тело мальчика, чтобы понять: его сын погиб страшной смертью после долгих пыток.

The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity

Mexican feature film

A Mexican romance by Dana Rotberg.

История жизни Габи Бример. Она смогла превратить свои физические недостатки в цели для изучения, и результатом стало торжество девушки.

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.

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.

Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.

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.

Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land...

Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.

Планета Арракис, также известная под названием Дюна, год 10991. Это арена борьбы между злом и благородством, мир тончайших и опаснейших интриг. Гигантские песчаные черви длиной в целую милю сторожат бесценное сокровище - меланжевую пряность, позволяющую путешествовать сквозь Пространство и Время. Тот, кто контролирует пряность, контролирует Вселенную. Народ Дюны ожидает пришествия Мессии, который поведет их на священную войну против династии злобных Харконненов. И Мессия является. Им становится юный Пол Атрейдес, сын герцога Лито, предательски убитого Харконненами с одобрения Императора. Полу предстоит великая миссия, которая навсегда изменит судьбу всей галактической империи…

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.

Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.

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.

Бывший преступник шантажирован коррумпированным полицейским и вынужден совершить преступление.

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).

In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.

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.

A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.