A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this mexican village. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mexico
Susana (1951) Luis Buñuel, Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Read More »
Gran Casino (1947) Luis Buñuel, Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Meche Barba
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) assumes the business management. Read More »
A Secret World (2012) Gabriel Mariño, Lucía Uribe Bracho, Roberto Mares, Olivia Lagunas
Eighteen-year-old Maria is a lonely and promiscuous dreamer struggling to make sense of her life. Read More »
A Wall of Silence (1993) Lita Stantic, Vanessa Redgrave, Ofelia Medina, Lautaro Murúa
A film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. Read More »
The Living Idol (1957) René Cardona, Albert Lewin, Steve Forrest, Liliane Montevecchi, James Robertson Justice
Several mysterious deaths are attributed to an ancient stone idol. Read More »
The Fugitive (1947) John Ford, Emilio Fernández, Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. Read More »
Simon of the Desert (1965) Luis Buñuel, Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Short, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The ascetic Simón believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal Read More »
This Strange Passion (1953) Luis Buñuel, Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Drama, Romance
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. Read More »
Viridiana (1961) Luis Buñuel, Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, Comedy, Drama
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Read More »
Castle of Purity (1973) Arturo Ripstein, Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Drama
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” Read More »
The Proud Ones (1953) Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas, Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Drama, Romance
The first to die in an outbreak of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. Read More »
The Phantom Gunslinger (1970) Albert Zugsmith, Troy Donahue, Sabrina, Elizabeth Campbell, Western
The Phantom Gunslinger is place from the city of”Tucca Flats.” The peaceful existence of this town is interrupted by the arrival of a bunch of bandits, such as Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, along with a few others. The sheriff leaves city, but not before naming Bill because his successor. Bill, regrettably, does not carry or even understand how to use a gun, as well as the outlaws take over Tucca Flats. Read More »
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959) Ismael Rodríguez, María Félix, Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernández, Drama, Romance, War
The Cucaracha is a courageous woman soldier who directs a group of comparable women to the fray from the forces of the Villa colonel, Zeta. Read More »
Lucifer (2014) Gust Van den Berghe, María Acosta, Jeronimo Soto Bravo, Norma Pablo, Drama
On his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, where elderly Lupita and her granddaughter Maria live. Read More »