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Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Felipe Cazals · 1976
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 student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Documentary
City of God
Fernando Meirelles · 2002
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Fantasy
Macario
Roberto Gavaldón · 1960
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Drama
A Fantastic Woman
Sebastián Lelio · 2017
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
Comedy
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.
Romantic Comedy
Love and Beans
Mathew Kodath · 2009
When a young woman suspects her husband is cheating on her she gets increasingly paranoid about his actions.
Horror
When Evil Lurks
Demián Rugna · 2023
En una aldea remota donde dos hermanos encuentran a un hombre infectado por un demonio que está a punto de dar a luz al mal mismo. En un momento en que el exorcismo parece ser de poca utilidad para protegerse del mal, después de advertir a los vecinos de la ciudad, deciden deshacerse del hombre, pero simplemente logran ayudarlo a librar el infierno.
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La Ciénaga
Lucrecia Martel · 2001
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
El circo
Miguel M. Delgado · 1943
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
Red Dawn
Jorge Fons · 1990
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Roza
Andrés Rodríguez · 2022
Héctor returns to his town in the Guatemalan highlands after a difficult migration of many years to the north. That trip has left him wounded. With a possessive mother, a young wife who despises him since her abandonment and a young son who does not know him, Héctor will try to adapt, proposing to live as before, repairing lost time, but he runs into a community that has already discarded him. His violent reaction breaks the fabric of his environment, and he discovers that since he left everything has changed, neither Héctor nor his community will be the same.
The Way He Looks
Daniel Ribeiro · 2014
Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.
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.
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.
Sidewalls
Gustavo Taretto · 2011
Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?
I Dream in Another Language
Ernesto Contreras · 2017
An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.
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.
I Am Cuba
Mikhail Kalatozov · 1964
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
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.
The Perfect Dictatorship
Luis Estrada · 2014
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
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.
The Secret in Their Eyes
Juan José Campanella · 2009
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
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.
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.
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.
Wild Tales
Damián Szifron · 2014
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.
Tales of an Immoral Couple
Manolo Caro · 2016
Lucio and Martina used to share an indescribable chemistry during their highschool years, however, they took separate ways. 25 years later they meet again, but this time they decide to invent an ideal life in order to hide themselves from an inevitable truth: they were really waiting for each other in all of these years.
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.
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.
Nine Queens
Fabián Bielinsky · 2000
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
