Narciso Busquets

The Year of the Plague

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

El principio

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

Nuestro Juramento

"Nuestro Juramento" is the life of the singer, Julio Jaramillo, presented episodically, having as background his childhood, youth, his first loves, the apotheosis of his career and his dramatic end. The musicalization of the film has the singles taken from the singer's original recordings.

Demonoid

A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possesses people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner.

Operation Marihuana

Thousands of peasants are kidnapped by the mafia and are forced to work in marijuana fields. Facing violence, death, & desperately fighting for their lives.

San Miguel el alto

A cocker and his driver were attacked by strangers, but leave unharmed. Jesús denounces the fact to his friend Mario, mayor of San Miguel el Alto.

Everything In Vain

Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.

La casa del ogro

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.

La ley del monte

After etching their love on a stalk, a boy and girl reunite years later, reigniting their romance amidst the Mexican Revolution.

Life Sentence

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.

Another Dawn

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Crosses Over the Wasteland

After a long journey in search of the murderer of his father, a man abuses a beautiful girl next to marry.

It's my Life

Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison

Matinée

Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.

Masacre en el río Tula

Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.

El cobarde

Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.

El juez de la soga

In the Old West, a gunfighter punishes the wrongdoers making justice himself, but his mother's words continue to fill his mind: "Justice is divine". Nonetheless, he goes on hanging the culprits, becoming quite famous. When a bunch of outlaws lead by a crooked landlord treats an innocent village and a beautiful girl, the time for the avenger's final mission is arrived.

La gallina clueca

Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.

Cuando Habla El Corazon

Historical drama about the period just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo

Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.

Del otro lado del puente

Among Chicanos in Los Angeles, young Alberto lives with the family of Dany, his older brother. Alberto studies at UCLA with the support of Professor Bob. Another young man, Jimy Joe, who lives with his sister Estela, is encouraged to quit drugs at a youth rehabilitation center coordinated by Many. Estela sees Jimy Joe being beaten up by gang members. Disillusioned with a gringa, Alberto meets Estela at a nightclub and becomes her boyfriend. Jimy Joe and his friends are surprised by a gang, and he is the only one left alive after a fierce fight, but with a fractured skull. The operation is very expensive, so Alberto and Many decide to raise funds with a show at the Convention Center. Alberto triumphs there as a composer and singer. Now saved, Jimy Joe dances in the street to one of Alberto's songs with Alberto, Estela, and others.

The Prodigious Barber

Simple small-town guy's life is turned upside-down when he seems to perform a miraculous cure for a blind man.

El jardín de los cerezos

Aristocratic family in decline, ascendency of a new moneyed class.

Los cuervos están de luto

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.

The Adventures of Oliver Twist

An animated adaptation of the Charles Dickens book.

Uno para la horca

A man named Tony is captured riding the horse of Lee Corey, a missing delivery man for a local mining company. Tony claims to have bought the horse from two men, but the sheriff believes he has murdered Corey and stolen the horse. Tony is sent to the gallows, but escapes hanging with the help of Corey's mistress and sets out to find the real killer.

You’re Missing the Point

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

Chico Ramos

Western revenge drama.

Red Rain

Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.

The Four Juanes

Juan Sin Fiedo (Javier Solis), Juan Colorado (Antonio Aguilar), Juan Pistolas (Luis Aguilar) and Juan Charrasqueado join their destinies during the Mexican Revolution.

Cinco en la cárcel

Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.

El hombre de negro

After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.

El Intruso

A man discovers that the second child he is expecting is the product of his wife's infidelity, who dies in childbirth. The boy, named Alberto, is treated as if he were a servant. His brother José Manuel, on the other hand, is treated well and all his whims are fulfilled and therefore he becomes lazy and irresponsible.

La soldadera

While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.

Forbidden Cargo

Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.

Jesús, nuestro Señor

Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.

La yegua colorada

Landowner counts on his super-champeen race-horse to help him win back the hacienda he was swindled out of.

El cara parchada

Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.

La muerte cruzó el río Bravo

Rich man's son in a small town thinks he can get away with anything, including rape and murder.

México Norte

Remake of Pueblerina (1949). Convict is released from prison and tries to pick up his life-farm-girlfriend where he left off with them. But there are obstacles.

La revancha

Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.

Presos sin culpa

Mexican feature film

Los años vacios

A young woman's older brother returns home for the first time since before she was born. But... is it really him?

Comisario en turno

Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.

Rosa la tequilera

The singer Rosa La Tequilera is besieged by a very powerful rancher who wants to get to her at all costs, but finds resistance as there is another who wants the same.

The Female Scorpion

Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.

San Juan de Dios es Jalisco

Mexican feature film

El espectro de la novia

British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one of them.

The Devil's Horse

Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even more violent then before, this time extending his violence to women and animals.

The Door and The Butcher's Wife

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

Pedro Paramo

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

The Unknown Policeman

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.

The Golden Cockerel

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

El primer amor

Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood.

The Shadow of the Tyrant

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

Odio

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

Hombres del mar

A 1938 film.

La pequeña madrecita

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.

La banda de la sotana negra

Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.

Longitud de Guerra

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.

The Barracks

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Wild Dogs

A professional assassin (and widowed deadbeat dad set to soon remarry) decides to call it quits and go straight after one more job. Complications ensue, particularly with a persistent police detective.

Mojados

A group of workers crossing the river is ambushed by rogue INS agents who intend to kill them all and plant drug on the corpse as evidence of cartel activity. One escapes, and he commits himself to helping a District Attorney collect evidence on the politicians and industrialists those agents work for.

Al filo de los machetes

After being released from prison, our boy just wants to go home, run his farm and live peacefully... but the local agro-robberbaron won't let him be. Remake of Pueblerina (1949).

Corazón de niño

All through the school-year with a teacher and his fifth-grade boys.

El padre Morelos

Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.

El contrabando del paso

A shady associate from the past tempts the owner of a failing nightclub into a drug-smuggling scheme.

Una luz en mi camino

A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.

Regalo de reyes

Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.

Los dos pilletes

Suspicious husband deals with wife's supposed infidelity by making his toddler son disappear into the city's slums, where he grows to boyhood as a thief's apprentice.

Ojo por Ojo

A couple is attacked bu thugs and the woman is killed, the boyfriend plans his revenge.

Rayando el sol

Romantic triangle on the hacienda.

Valente Quintero

Two best friends tragically fall in love with the same woman.

Chicoasén

To prevent the Grijalva river from overflowing, during the construction of the Chicoasén dam, "el ratón" and some engineers die. Two archaeologists decipher antique signs on the walls of the Canyon and discover the source of danger.

The Nativity: The Life of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ goes from being born in a manger to being King of the Jews . Walk where he walked, see what He did, and be where He died. What made him more than just a man in some peoples eyes but an impostor in others'? ...

Story of a Great Love

Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.

X Murderer

A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.

Pistoleros famosos II

Lucía convalesces from the leg injury she suffered in the previous film. Her friend Ceferino and the undocumented Coyote boy, who cannot integrate into the United States, help her escape from her.

Antonieta

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.

The Bandits

Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.