La Maga Etérea
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
Rosalinda
After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother Rosalinda's life.
Cristina
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.
Claudia Castejón
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
La Soldadera (voice)
Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldier he escapes with the help of Juan Escopeta, a gunman for hire. Together they travel through a country absorbed in civil war in search of Gapo’s older and only brother: a famed revolutionary outlaw.
Guadalupe Calva
В маленьком мексиканском городке, в котором добывают соль, пропадают молодые девушки. Позже стали находить их трупы со следами пыток. Из столичной полиции прибывает коммандер Трухильо, чтобы помочь местному шерифу Салазару в поисках убийцы. Они выясняют, что точкой соприкосновения всех жертв является школа. Какие же секреты она хранит?
Mara
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.
Eva
Every abandoned woman has dreamed of taking revenge on her husband. Fate gives Eva that possibility. On the first anniversary of running away to find the love of a younger woman, Joaquín, her ex-husband, has to return to the family home temporarily disabled. Eva will be in charge of taking care of him. A film about women's fear of abandonment and men's fear of impotence.
Julia Palafox
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
Lucía
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
Maca Ribera
Амбициозные планы отца занять место мэра Мехико под угрозой. Его любимая 18-летняя дочь Адела славится далеко не спортивными достижениями или благотворительными акциями. Юная строптивица гордится своими многочисленными тату, пирсингом и… арестом за недостойное поведение. Связанный по рукам и ногам выходками дочери, папочка решает найти изящный выход из создавшегося положения. Он записывает ее в известную Академию для Юных Леди — заведение, надежно зарекомендовавшее себя своей единственной и неповторимой методой превращения любой бунтарки в идеальную «богиню домашнего очага». Так оно и было до того момента, пока туда не ступила нога Аделы. Любая попытка директрисы наставить Аделу на путь истинный переворачивает всю школу вместе с ее колоритными ученицами вверх тормашками. Интересно, кому удастся выиграть решающий матч?
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
Главный герой - русский, попавший после войны из фашистского плена в Мексику и проживший на чужбине большую часть жизни, теперь возвращается на родину с дочерью, пережившей сильный нервный стресс.
Felipa / Teacher
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town
Almendrita
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.
Archaeologist
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.
La Jaira
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.
Julia
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Courtesan
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.
A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband.
Colorada
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
Leonora
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
Concha
Молодой парень по имени Феникс находится в больнице для душевнобольных. В детстве он стал свидетелем того, как его отец-циркач отрезал руки своей жене, религиозной фанатичке и лидеру секты «Святой крови», и покончил с собой. Парень сбегает из лечебницы и находит свою выжившую безрукую мать. Феникс сидит целыми днями дома, помогает матери готовить еду и пытается изобрести формулу невидимости. По мере того, как Феникса начинают посещать воспоминания детства, в городе начинается череда жестоких убийств…
Wandering gunslinger trains peaceable farmers to defend themselves for an impending range war.
Isabel
Luisa Castelar
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Биографический фильм о полковнике Уильяме Уокере Норвелле, воинском начальнике и авантюристе, задумавшем группой в 45 бойцов в 1853 году `освободить`мексиканский штат Сонора и создать свою, так называемую, непризнанную республику. А позднее, будучи командующим Первого Американского батальона пехоты осуществить агрессивное вторжение в Никарагуа (1855)...
Two secret police officers fight against drug dealers and a sadistic criminal who executes the mafia's enemies.
Olga
La Caponera
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Fish vendor
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.
Adriana Rojas
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
Fifi
Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained frenzy.
Man and woman get married, they adapt to living together and he adapts to living with her four children.
Cocaine industry in the Colombian outback.
Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.
A poor family hits the lottery.
Lilia Montero
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Susana Gomez
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.
Marta Camargo
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress.
Petronila Quesada
Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile potion. Petronila begins to delude Encarnacion with suggestions that she is actually a "segua" or a female spirit that attacks men.
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.
Ulysses' mother
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
Wife of Compadre #1 (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.
Young woman engineers a reconciliation between her long-estranged parents.
B.G. Alvarez
Хэнк Ричардс, английский журналист, хочет написать статью об известном археологе докторе Кристофере Фалькон. Фалькон отказывается и отправляется в Мексику, чтобы исследовать два священных камня. Камни оказываются частью таинственного сокровища. Хэнк решает следовать за ним. Тем не менее, группа гангстеров прибывает за доктором Фальконом, которая хочет убить его за камни. Хэнк спасает его и тем самым завоёвывает его доверие. Фалькон убеждает его возглавить экспедицию, чтобы получить другие камни в своё распоряжение.
Первая часть дилогии «Красные колокола» посвящена мексиканской революции 1910 года, события которой показаны глазами американского журналиста, автора будущей книги «Десять дней, которые потрясли мир». А пока — в перерывах между боями - Джон Рид писал заметки к своей будущей книге «Восставшая Мексика», материалы которой и стали источником сценария этого фильма.
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
Anita
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
Parody of the Zorro-styled "noble bandit" story.
Revolution-era Mexico: two well-known bandits hook up, then join forces with an outlaw woman.
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.
Xochitl
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
Cuca's Stammering Daughter
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.
Lupe
Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.
Mercedes
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago.
La Chiquis
Sra. Gayosso
A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous
Bronca
La Chiquis
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Isabel Salas
Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...
Gloria Revirado
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.
Dolores Preciado
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…
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.
