Peasants escaping mindless labor and a murderous Guatemalan government head to America in hopes for something better.
Benjamin Garcia, Benny, is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the narco business, in which has for the first time in his life, an...
Based on the Nobel Prize Winner's novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood ...
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
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 ...
A rich aristocratic couple (Julissa, Enrique Alvarez Felix) abandon a dinner party to enjoy a night on the town with a urban gang, known as Los Caifanes.
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness.
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.
A very poor and handicaped man, lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. He works announcing things along the town ("The priest lost his cow, if someone sees it ..."). He is very ...
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and some pretentious narration making poetic statements about sin.
A handsome pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders, to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. ...
During the 1930's a very honest man (Villamosa) is sent as Regional Delegate from the Capital City to Yucatan State (a very afar city). Once there he finds a deep corrupted burocracy, ...
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, ...
This is a story of revenge, as detective Chayne's own clients sabotage his actions, and leave him blind in one eye. The cases then become personal and Chayne vows to destroy the guilty.
Several young women are murdered in a small community, and a detective moves in to solve the crimes.
A large middle class family from the capital goes on a cheap holiday to a beach on the south coast. There, small problems start fast, from the beach not being so clean as expected to the ...
A plot to bust an illegal Marijuana operation.
The story of two bored and restless rich kids and their plunge into tragedy.