A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who threaten to destroy his material.
Valeria and Pablo, her husband, own an important hotel chain, which she inherited and he manages. Valeria knows that she suffers from chronic insomnia but has managed to control it and live a normal life.
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
Deathstalker’s back—and this time he’s facing off against Troxartes, an evil wizard with a zombie army and two magical jewels that hold the key to the lost city of Erendor. Teaming up with Princess Carissa, Deathstalker must protect the third gem, storm a heavily guarded fortress, and ride a bolt of lightning straight into battle.
Revoltoso | Set on 1913. Jabalito, a small one-eyed wild boar is on the scene of one of the first filmed wars in history: the Mexican Revolution. In the midst of the war he discovers cinema. Revoltoso is a stop-motion short film. The look and feel is inspired by Cubism.
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
"My best gift" is the story of Daniel (Plutarco Haza), who is facing difficult times both affective and professionally, but life gives him a motivation to keep going. One day, Don Gustavo (Aaron Hernan) unexpectedly knocks at his door, arriving with the news that he has a daughter, Samantha (Sophia de la Mora), the product of a relationship with an ex girlfriend (Eréndira Ibarra) 8 years ago; but unfortunately she died and now he has to take care of his daughter.
A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the Madera military barracks; most of them lose their lives.
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
Javier se ha casado con María, el amor de su vida, y ahora lo único que desea es estar feliz con ella el resto de su vida, pero el destino se la quita poco después de la boda. Ahora Javier está enredado en sus emociones: ¿cómo aceptará la muerte de su mujer para encontrar nuevamente el amor?
Fisherman organized into a labor collective face opposition from the capitalists who own the boats and the processing plants.It gets violent, and there's a love story mixed in there as well.
Mexican feature film
Mexican feature film
Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo?
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Two brothers try to kill their stepfather to avenge the death of their mother.
A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.
Escalating tensions within a frontier town besieged by outlaws.
Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.
Short-lived superhero-adventure series. One sequel.
In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly, they have come to warn people about the dangers of nuclear testing and exploring space, but their real mission becomes manifest when they begin using their special powers and gadgets to exploit weak earthlings.
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Wandering cowboy stops to help a widow out against the man who killed her husband.
A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
A magical story about the memories in a human life.
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
A gold digger kills her rich old husband and then is driven to the brink of madness when her late hubby starts haunting her. Is he really dead or a vengeful ghost?
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
The tale of a guard at Chapultepec Castle that has fallen in love with a beautiful ghost who haunts its hallowed halls, and his tragic but happy end.
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Beyond being two young women, Lolo and Gaby have nothing in common. However, they become involved in the dispute over a controversial! inheritance: a beautiful yacht. Esperanza, a small girl from a fishing village (Mahahual), becomes the bond uniting the two women, who together will face a common enemy: The Great Garbage Patch.
The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the ordinary mexican families of the time, because they have many expensive American things, although they are not rich. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.
Mexican feature film
The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.