Ignacio López Tarso

After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the...

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin,...

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who...

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries...

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female...

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,...

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him...

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him...

Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing...

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...

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.

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of...

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to...

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called...

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows...

A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode.

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want...

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.

Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

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...

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of...

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of...

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.

A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.

Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls...

Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.

"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the accidents...

A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.

Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her...

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...

Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good" rich guy eventually gets around to helping them...

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears...

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in...

Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.

Story about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his...

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them...

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to...

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.

Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying...

Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels...

Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas...

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written...

A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt,...

The Sanchez clan have seen the worst of times, but they have survived by sticking together. When Sanchez's oldest daughter Consuelo plans to build a...