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Tag Archives: Mexico
El imperio de la fortuna / The Realm of Fortune (1986) Arturo Ripstein, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Drama
A very poor and handicaped man, lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. Read More »
Matinée (1977) Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Héctor Bonilla, Manuel Ojeda, Rodolfo Chávez Martínez, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. Read More »
Los confines (1987) Mitl Valdez, Rigoberto Carmona, Carlos Esteban Chávez, Uriel Chávez, Drama
Mitl Valdez’s film Los confines (1987) is an adaptation of several works of fiction by the Mexican author Juan Rulfo. Read More »
The Delay / La demora (2012) Rodrigo Plá, Néstor Guzzini, Fernando Amaral, Andrea Fantoni, Drama
It’s the sort of everyday personal tragedy that would hardly even merit inclusion in a short news column – overworked and underpaid, a forty-something mother of three is driven to abandon her senile father so she can take better care of her children. Read More »
Todos están muertos (2014) Beatriz Sanchís, Elena Anaya, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Angélica Aragón, Comedy, Drama, Family
If you saw Lupe (35) in her bathrobe and slippers, stuck at home making pies, you would never imagine that back in the 80’s she was a pop-rock star. Read More »
Sensualidad (1951) Alberto Gout, Fernando Soler, Ninón Sevilla, Domingo Soler, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Saloon singer Aurora is sentenced to two years in prison for a prostitution conviction. Read More »
The Golden Dream / La jaula de oro (2013) Diego Quemada-Díez, Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez, Drama
Juan, Samuel and Sara leave Guatemala hoping for a better life in the US. On their way, they are joined by a Tzotzil indian boy, Chauk. Read More »
El seminarista / The Seminarist (1949) Roberto Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Silvia Derbez, Fernando Soto, Comedy, Drama
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind. Read More »
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) Felipe Cazals, Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Adventure, Crime, Drama
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators Read More »
The Evil That Men Do (1984) J. Lee Thompson, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, Action, Drama, Thriller
Clement Moloch (Joseph Maher (R.I.P.))is a doctor (dubbed “the doctor”), but instead of using his skills to heal; he uses them to torture. Read More »
El gran calavera / The Great Madcap (1949) Luis Buñuel, Fernando Soler, Rosario Granados, Andrés Soler, Comedy
El Gran Calavera a dark comedy directed by Luis Buñuel deals with a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo (Luis Alconira). Read More »
La marca de Satanás / The Mark of Satan (1957) Chano Urueta, Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Horror, Adventure, Mystery
The third and final film in the Headless Rider series directed by horror master Chano Urueta.
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Desde allá / From Afar (2015) Lorenzo Vigas, Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Drama, Romance
Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. Read More »
Eréndira (1983) Ruy Guerra, Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale, Drama
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother’s house catches on fire and burns to the ground.
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