Francisca
Ulises is a friendly, aspiring actor with big dreams, who also has a weight problem and a compulsive eating habit. In a world where image is paramount, Ulises will do whatever it takes to climb out of the infomercial doldrums. His plans are shaken when he runs into Carolina, his childhood sweetheart, who has grown up to become a stunning, successful businesswoman. Determined to win her heart, Ulises decides to lose weight and earn big bucks, with the help of his best friend, El Charal, a carefree, charismatic kid from the wrong side of the tracks, whose big dream is to be on TV. Ulises, El Charal, and Carolina face hilarious situations and some tough lessons in this riotous romantic comedy.
Mamá Javier
Javier se ha casado con María, el amor de su vida, y ahora lo único que desea es estar feliz con ella el resto de su vida, pero el destino se la quita poco después de la boda. Ahora Javier está enredado en sus emociones: ¿cómo aceptará la muerte de su mujer para encontrar nuevamente el amor?
Angie
Sergio Arau's documentary on his 1980's mexican rock band Botellita de Jerez.
Three stories, each one with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country's educational system. The first story, Memorial of a Madman, is a testimony to the marginalized education offered in our rural communities. The Mission deals with the expulsion and death of the Jesuit teaching missionaries. The third one, The Prodigious Teacher, tells of the persecution and imprisonment of the free students and prodigious teachers of 1968.
Josephina
Благополучная жизнь простого банковского служащего Джека Бишопа в одночасье превращается в трагедию. Исчезает его дочь. Но он упорно не хочет верить в ее гибель. Самого героя начинают преследовать мистические видения смерти, словно напоминания, что нужно торопиться, иначе уже ничего нельзя будет исправить…
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.
Mamá
A young man dies by electrocution, but his body remains alive for a few days.
La güera
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.
Under the notion that "you can not change the future, but the past," a young woman who has grown up in a poor village in the highlands, embarks on a spiritual journey to Mexico City seeking to break the cycle of family alienation and find hope. Fate will return to the source to destroy and start over.
Rita
In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.
Betty
A lonely, aging postal worker finds himself the victim of a cruel practical joke in this pessimistic Mexican drama. The trouble begins when crotchety postman Andre begins complaining about his young neighbor Marianna's propensity for playing loud music every time she entertains a lover. To get back at him, Marianna begins sending him anonymous love letters. The old man is intrigued by the mysterious letters and hires a cheap detective to find their author. The detective is convinced the perpetrator is Teresita, a veteran hooker who joins in on the scheme to earn a little extra cash. Andre's friend and colleague tries to warn Andre that it is all a game, but his friend is in love and will not listen. Meanwhile, Marianna attempts to woo Luis Felipe, a hard, unfeeling tabloid journalist who has her take grisly pictures of murder victims for him. Both Marianna and Andre are destined to meet an unpleasant fate at the story's end.
Sra. Gorda
In a small town where nothing ever happens, the inhabitants learn about a place at the edge of the earth where money and women are abundant. When they see the oportunity to go and work illegaly in the United States, they jump at the chance. Meanwhile Andrés and Gregorio go to the town searching for treasures and they only find Matilde, the rest of the women in the town left, tired of waiting for the men to return.
Doña Flor
о роману Нагиба Махфуза "Тупик Милагро". Действие происходит в бедном районе Мехико и ограничено небольшим двориком, главной достопримечательностью которого является бар дона Рутильо. С его посетителями и знакомит фильм. Зритель постепенно знакомится с многочисленными персонажами, выписанными с теплом и любовью, узнает об их взаимоотношениях, жизни, радостях и проблемах. Чава, сын дона Рутильо, очень хочет вырваться из бедной, однообразной рутины и уехать в Штаты, для чего изучает английский язык. Авель любит местную красавицу Альму (Хэйек), дочь донны Каты. Уже немолодая и щербатая Сусанита, владелица дома, мечтает найти мужчину для своего доброго сердца. Дон Рутильо влюблен в... продавца из магазина одежды, что очень не нравится его пышной супруге и сыну. У Альмы появляется шанс выйти замуж за старого и обеспеченного дона Фиделя, но тот умирает от сердечного приступа за партией в домино.
Lina Roma
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
Malena
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.
"Alguien se acerca", "Viajeros", "Lilí" and "Azul celeste", four stories directed by Ramón Cervantes, Rafael Montero, Gerardo Lara and María Novaro, respectively.
Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
Nurse
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Revolutionary on the run from a government hit squad kidnaps a landowner's daughter for protection.
Mexican feature film
Emma
Historia de un ciclista en Colombia
Anita Palacio
In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he decided to do it in Mexico with Mexican actors and recreating the Colombian landscapes in that country.
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
Carmen Ortega
Клаудия Берналь прибыла в США, беременная от своего любовника-кинорежиссера Фелипе, который поселил ее в доме на берегу моря. После того, как его жена узнает, она нанимает мужчин, чтобы изнасиловать Клаудию и сфотографировать акт. В итоге Клаудию арестовывают и по обвинению в проституции и нелегальном пребывании на территории США депортируют обратно в Мексику, а ребенка отдают Фелипе. Теперь Клаудия хочет только одного – вернуться в США за своим сыном, ради этого она готова на все.
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.
demonio / china poblana / Emiliano Zapata
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
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.
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Damiana Ferrara
Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.
Mimí Manila
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Rosalía
The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he eludes them.
Lety (segment "Fe")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
In the sixteenth Captain Morgan pirate ship is sunk by the Spanish fleet. He and four companions make it to an island, but the beaches are occupied by the Spanish. The child Erick, son of John Goldark, King of the Pirates, who died trying to save his nephews Lady Harold and the Spanish prisoners, helping them into the jungle. Grateful Morgan and his friends save the captives. When it seems that children are lost flying the Spanish magazine. Then fight with cannibals and are again caught by the Spanish, but are saved by another pirate ship.
A veteran lawman must escort a brutal and bloodthirsty bandit, Big Bill, back to the prison from which he escaped. On the way, the commissioner is wounded and only finds the assistance of Nick Sanders, a young homeless man with great skill with weapons. The lawman and Sanders establish a friendly relationship, and Sanders agrees to escort the bandit. However, the two protagonists are pursued by hostile forces: the prisoner's gang, and law enforcement officers, who are after Sanders on a murder charge. The meeting point is in a town where the local sheriff tries to fulfill his duty by hosting the prisoner while facing the pressures and fears of the townspeople.
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
Nadia
Title says it all. Wrestler, interplanetary babes...
Lupe, the maid
A woman travels to her past life with the help of Santo's past life regression machine
The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .
A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers.
Woman in Shower
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.