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Tótem
Lila Avilés · 2023
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Wheatfield
Anabel Caso · 2022
During the summer, thirteen-year-old Sofia moves to the country house, where her cousin Cristina is waiting for her to spend the vacations. During these days of games and discoveries, the two will be immersed in a love triangle with a man almost twenty years older. Its outcome will mark the passage from puberty to adolescence for both of them.
Heroic
David Zonana · 2023
Luis, an 18-year-old Mexican boy with indigenous roots, enters the Heroico Military College with the hope of securing a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to make him a perfect soldier.
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2022
A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.
Huesera: The Bone Woman
Michelle Garza Cervera · 2023
Valeria's joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she's cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she's forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.
Museo
Alonso Ruizpalacios · 2018
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act.
The Eternal Feminine
Natalia Beristáin · 2017
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life.
Güeros
Alonso Ruizpalacios · 2014
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
El Infierno
Luis Estrada · 2010
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Love Hurts
Fernando Sariñana · 2002
La vida de Ulises da un giro inopinado cuando conoce a Renata, una muchacha asimismo de clase alta. Renata compra ropa con su amiga y cómplice «La Güera» y su hermana alcohólica más joven, Mariana; cuando de súbito cruza miradas seductoras con Ulises por medio de un escaparate.
Killing Cabos
Alejandro Lozano · 2004
Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped.
Duck Season
Fernando Eimbcke · 2004
Flama y Moko, dos amigos adolescentes, tratan de aprovechar la ausencia de los adultos para pasar un día a base de comida basura, refrescos y videojuegos en un apartamento de Tlatelolco. Pero dos personajes inesperados irrumpen en la escena: Ulises, un frustrado repartidor de pizzas, y Rita, una vecina que llama a la puerta buscando dónde hornear un pastel.
Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
Maryse Sistach · 2001
Yessica y Miriam, dos adolescentes de la Ciudad de México, inician una fuerte amistad a pesar de sus distintas personalidades. Todo cambia cuando un joven chofer de microbús viola a Yessica con la ayuda de Jorge, el hermanastro de ella.
Herod's Law
Luis Estrada · 1999
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
The Place Without Limits
Arturo Ripstein · 1978
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Amores Perros
Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2000
Ciudad de México: un fatal accidente automovilístico afecta trágicamente a tres personas. Octavio, un joven adolescente, decide fugarse con Susana, la esposa de su hermano; el Cofí, su perro, se convierte en el medio para conseguir el dinero que necesitan para poder escapar juntos. Al mismo tiempo, Daniel, un hombre de 42 años, deja a su esposa y a sus hijos para irse a vivir con Valeria, una hermosa modelo. El mismo día en que ambos festejan su nueva vida, el destino hace que Valeria sea víctima del trágico accidente.
Y Tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón · 2001
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Alucarda
Juan López Moctezuma · 1977
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Rogelio A. González · 1960
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
Dust To Dust
Juan Carlos de Llaca · 2000
The movie opens as the two protagonists, Rodrigo and Rocco join their families to hold a birthday party for their grandfather, Rodrigo Carnicero, which through most part of the movie is only referred to as "El abuelo" (Spanish for Grandpa). Rodrigo is a regular middle-class teenager, while Rocco (who, in fact, is also named Rodrigo but shortens his name to Rocco) is rather more unconventional, a marijuana user and indie magazine writer, and has deep conflicts with his father Luis.
The Good Girls
Alejandra Márquez Abella · 2019
Sofía a well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
