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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.
Buy Me a Gun
Julio Hernández Cordón · 2018
In a timeless México where women are disappearing, a girl helps her dad, a tormented addict, to take care of an abandoned baseball camp where the narcos gather to play.
Viridiana
Luis Buñuel · 1962
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Los Caifanes
Juan Ibáñez · 1967
A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
Tempestad
Tatiana Huezo · 2017
A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to south Mexico, both testimonies collide and take us to the center of a storm: a country where violence has taken control of our lives, our desires and our dreams.
Nazarin
Luis Buñuel · 1959
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
Simon of the Desert
Luis Buñuel · 1965
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
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.
The Exterminating Angel
Luis Buñuel · 1962
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Even the Wind Is Afraid
Carlos Enrique Taboada · 1968
A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
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.
Noise
Natalia Beristáin · 2022
Julia is a mother, or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had their lives torn apart by the widespread violence in a country waging a war against its women. Julia is searching for Ger, her daughter. And in her search, she will weave through the stories and struggles of the different women she will meet.
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón · 2018
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
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.
The Amazing Catfish
Claudia Sainte-Luce · 2013
Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.
Prayers for the Stolen
Tatiana Huezo · 2021
Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.
The Young and the Damned
Luis Buñuel · 1950
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
La Cocina
Alonso Ruizpalacios · 2024
It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. Money has gone missing from the till and all the workers are being questioned.
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.
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.
female rage
Pearl
Ti West · 2022
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
folk horror
The Witch
Robert Eggers · 2016
1630, en Nouvelle-Angleterre. William et Katherine, un couple dévot, s’établit à la limite de la civilisation, menant une vie pieuse avec leurs cinq enfants et cultivant leur lopin de terre au milieu d’une étendue encore sauvage. La mystérieuse disparition de leur nouveau-né et la perte soudaine de leurs récoltes vont rapidement les amener à se dresser les uns contre les autres…
The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy · 1973
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Midsommar
Ari Aster · 2019
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
art movies
Chungking Express
Wong Kar-Wai · 1994
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-Wai · 1995
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
goth
The Girl with the Needle
Magnus von Horn · 2024
Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
White Zombie
Victor Halperin · 1932
In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Henry Selick · 1993
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
Edward Scissorhands
Tim Burton · 1990
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Frankenstein
James Whale · 1931
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
Corpse Bride
Tim Burton · 2005
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Coraline
Henry Selick · 2009
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
Hellraiser
Clive Barker · 1987
Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
The Craft
Andrew Fleming · 1996
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene · 1920
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Dracula
Tod Browning · 1931
British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.
Nosferatu
Robert Eggers · 2024
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Suspiria
Dario Argento · 1977
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
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.
Nosferatu
F. W. Murnau · 1922
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
horror movies
Girl, Interrupted
James Mangold · 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Thirteen
Catherine Hardwicke · 2003
Tracy, una joven de 13 años de Los Ángeles, queda fascinada por Evie, la chica más popular del instituto. Tras hacerse muy amigas, y debido a la peligrosa influencia de la "cool" Evie, la antes inocente Tracy se verá poco a poco atrapada en un trepidante ritmo de vida que nada tenía que ver con su anterior vida sedentaria. Tracy se embarca en un mundo salvaje sobre el que no tiene control. Mientras, Mel, la madre de Tracy, trata desesperadamente de comprender la radical transformación que está sufriendo su hija.
Kids
Larry Clark · 1995
A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
Irreversible
Gaspar Noé · 2002
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.
Lilya 4-ever
Lukas Moodysson · 2002
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
Speak
Jessica Sharzer · 2004
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.
Mysterious Skin
Gregg Araki · 2005
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
comenzar a vivir tus 20s
The Worst Person in the World
Joachim Trier · 2021
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach · 2013
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
Vivre Sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard · 1962
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Silvia Prieto
Martín Rejtman · 1999
After her 27th birthday, Silvia Prieto decides to take charge of her life and make some changes. At the same time, she suddenly finds herself intertwined in the life of another woman who is also named Silvia Prieto.
Amélie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 2001
Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) es una joven camarera que vive en París y que tiene una imaginación desbordante. Un día, encuentra una caja con objetos antiguos que pertenecían al antiguo inquilino de su apartamento. Amélie decide devolver la caja a su dueño y ver su reacción. Al ver la felicidad que le provoca, Amélie se propone hacer felices a los demás con pequeños gestos. Así, ayuda a sus vecinos, a sus compañeros de trabajo y a su padre, mientras se divierte con sus ocurrencias. Pero en su búsqueda de la felicidad ajena, Amélie se olvida de la suya propia, hasta que conoce a Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz), un joven coleccionista de fotos que le roba el corazón.
