Peasants escaping mindless labor and a murderous Guatemalan government head to America in hopes for something better.
Benjamin Garcia, Benny, is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the narco business, in which has for the first time in his life, an...
Based on the Nobel Prize Winner's novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood ...
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against ...
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
A rich aristocratic couple (Julissa, Enrique Alvarez Felix) abandon a dinner party to enjoy a night on the town with a urban gang, known as Los Caifanes.
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness.
A very poor and handicaped man, lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. He works announcing things along the town ("The priest lost his cow, if someone sees it ..."). He is very ...
A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.
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 some pretentious narration making poetic statements about sin.
The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police department.
Several young women are murdered in a small community, and a detective moves in to solve the crimes.
A handsome 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).
A large middle class family from the capital goes on a cheap holiday to a beach on the south coast. There, small problems start fast, from the beach not being so clean as expected to the ...
The story of two bored and restless rich kids and their plunge into tragedy.
A plot to bust an illegal Marijuana operation.
Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde ...
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?' (De...
This is a story of revenge, as detective Chayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him blind in one eye. The cases then become personal and Chayne vows to destroy the guilty.