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The Gasoline Thieves
Edgar Nito · 2019
Lalo is a fourteen year old teenager who, from an naive approach, gets involved in the underground world of the gas theft mafia while he's trying to make money to buy a gift for Ana and win her heart.
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.
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.
Sujo
Astrid Rondero · 2024
When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved four-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable.
Prayers for the Stolen
Tatiana Huezo · 2021
In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discovering what it means to be women in a rural town marked by violence. Their mothers train them to flee death, to escape those who turn them into slaves or ghosts. They create their own impenetrable universe, but one day one of the girls doesn’t make it to her hiding place in time.
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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.
Corina
Ursula Barba Hopfner · 2025
Corina tiene 20 años y no ha salido de su casa más que para trabajar en una editorial ubicada en el barrio donde vive. Tras cometer un grave error con el final de la saga de libros más famosa de la compañía, Corina deberá superar sus miedos con la ayuda de Carlos y embarcarse en un viaje en busca de un misterioso escritor para salvar su trabajo y a toda la empresa.
Instructions Not Included
Eugenio Derbez · 2013
Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.
Days of Grace
Everardo Gout · 2012
Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.
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.
DIVE
Lucía Puenzo · 2022
Mariel is a veteran elite diver who has one last chance at the Olympic Games. However, when a terrible truth comes to light, Mariel faces her biggest personal question: Is winning her true dream?
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.
Like Water for Chocolate
Alfonso Arau · 1992
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
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.
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.
Identifying Features
Fernanda Valadez · 2020
Magdalena makes a journey to find her son, who has disappeared on his way to the Mexican border with the United States. Her odyssey takes her to meet Miguel, a man recently deported from the US. They start to travel together, Magdalena looking for her son, and Miguel hoping to see his mother again.
Radical
Christopher Zalla · 2023
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and perhaps even their genius.
I'm No Longer Here
Luis Fernando Frías de la Parra · 2019
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
New Order
Michel Franco · 2020
In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.
To Watch
Tamara y la catarina
Lucía Carreras · 2016
Narra la travesía de dos mujeres que se desdibujan en su soledad e invisibilidad y que tendrán que convivir más allá de lo que esperaban, y encontrar una en la otra un espacio donde no son parias, donde son necesitadas. Es una historia en la que los personajes irán descubriendo, en sus errores y su condición, una forma de existir entre ellas.
El secreto de sus ojos
Juan José Campanella · 2009
Argentina. Benjamín Espósito es oficial de un Juzgado de Instrucción de Buenos Aires recién retirado. Obsesionado por un brutal asesinato ocurrido veinticinco años antes, en 1974, decide escribir una novela sobre el caso, del cual fue testigo y protagonista. Reviviendo el pasado, viene también a su memoria el recuerdo de una mujer, a quien ha amado en silencio durante todos esos años.
Ciudad de Dios
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.
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.
Dance of the Forty One
David Pablos · 2020
Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.
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.
The Crime of Padre Amaro
Carlos Carrera · 2002
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl''s mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.
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.
Tear This Heart Out
Roberto Sneider · 2008
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman''s life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Danzón
María Novaro · 1991
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.
Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2010
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who''s sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
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.
Familia
Rodrigo García · 2023
As a family discusses the future of their idyllic olive farm over a meal, the complexity of their relationships emerges through laughs and confessions.
Poison for the Fairies
Carlos Enrique Taboada · 1986
In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children''s games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.
Warehoused
Jack Zagha Kababie · 2015
An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently nothing ever happens.
Sin Nombre
Cary Joji Fukunaga · 2009
Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra''s life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.
Life Sentence
Arturo Ripstein · 1979
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Pedro Páramo
Rodrigo Prieto · 2024
A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.
Impossible Things
Ernesto Contreras · 2021
After the death of her abusive husband, Matilde finds her new best friend in Miguel, her young, insecure, and disoriented neighbor.
The Wolves
Samuel Kishi · 2020
Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to come back, as they hold on to the hope of traveling to Disney.
The Golden Dream
Diego Quemada-Díez · 2013
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
The Violin
Francisco Vargas · 2005
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.
The Place Without Limits
Arturo Ripstein · 1978
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
The Secret Formula
Rubén Gámez · 1965
A cinematographic essay, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.
The Chambermaid
Lila Avilés · 2019
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
Midaq Alley
Jorge Fons · 1995
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner''s son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
Club Sandwich
Fernando Eimbcke · 2013
While vacationing at a beachside resort, a single mother faces inevitable separation anxiety when her 15-year-old son — who is also her best friend — discovers magical chemistry with a girl his own age.
Heli
Amat Escalante · 2013
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
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.
After Lucia
Michel Franco · 2012
Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
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.
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.
¡Que viva México!
Luis Estrada · 2023
After his grandfather''s death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
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?
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.
Cine de oro
El lugar sin límites
Arturo Ripstein · 1978
Ambientada en un México sórdido, patético, doloroso. En el prostíbulo de un pequeño pueblo sobreviven la Manuela, un trasvesti, y la Japonesita, una joven prostituta hija de un desliz de la Manuela. Don Alejo, el anciano cacique del lugar, quiere comprar el prostíbulo para venderlo a un consorcio junto con el resto del pueblo. El regreso de Pancho, un joven camionero ahijado de don Alejo, desata las tensiones entre los personajes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Los olvidados
Luis Buñuel · 1950
Un grupo de delincuentes juveniles vive una vida violenta en los infectos barrios bajos de Ciudad de México; entre ellos Pedro, cuya moralidad es gradualmente corrompida y destruida por los demás.
Una familia de tantas
Alejandro Galindo · 1949
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Fruto prohibido
Alfredo B. Crevenna · 1953
A writer is given custody of his editor''s daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
Soledad's Shawl
Roberto Gavaldón · 1952
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Salon Mexico
Emilio Fernández · 1949
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Sobre las olas
Miguel Zacarías · 1933
Based on the brief life of the Mexican composer of the famous waltz, "Over the Waves" ("Sobre las Olas"), Juventino Rosas.
No desearás la mujer de tu hijo
Ismael Rodríguez · 1950
An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
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.
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Luis Buñuel · 1955
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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.
The Brute
Luis Buñuel · 1953
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
We the Poor
Ismael Rodríguez · 1948
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
The Innocent
Rogelio A. González · 1956
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
The Kneeling Goddess
Roberto Gavaldón · 1947
Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a statue – the titular Kneeling Goddess – which, unbeknownst to him, features Raquel as the model. Antonio marries Raquel after Elena dies under suspicious circumstances — but not everything is what it seems.
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.
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Luis Buñuel · 1955
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Comedias Mex
Mesa de regalos
Noé Santillán-López · 2025
Nicolás y Antonia son dos amigos inseparables que están lejos de la estabilidad emocional y profesional que todos sus conocidos han alcanzado. Tras asistir a innumerables bodas, idean un plan tan audaz como ingenioso: ¡financiar sus sueños organizando su propia boda falsa! Anuncian su "amor secreto", planean una gran celebración y, en el momento crucial, Antonia dejará a Nicolás plantado en el altar. Confiados en que el escándalo disuadirá a los invitados de reclamar sus regalos, planean repartirse el botín. Sin embargo, surgen sentimientos inesperados que podrían complicar su brillante plan.
¿Qué culpa tiene el niño?
Gustavo Loza · 2016
Después de una divertida y tremenda borrachera, Maru (Karla Souza) y Renato (Ricardo Abarca), se llevan una sorpresa que no estaba dentro de sus planes, por lo que ambos deberán decidir cómo lidiar con un pequeñito asunto.
We Are the Nobles
Gary Alazraki · 2013
Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal that forces the whole family to escape to an old house in the poor side of town, and leads the "kids" to do what they haven''t done before: get jobs.
