A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it – but not everything goes according to plan… Read More »
Tag Archives: Mexico
Yvy Maraey (2013) Juan Carlos Valdivia, Elio Ortíz, Felipe Román, Drama, Documentary
A filmmaker tracing the steps of Swedish explorer Erland Nordeskiold travels with a Guarani Indian from the highlands of La Paz to the swamps in the forests of South Eastern Bolivia, a place where uncontacted indigenous still exist. Read More »
El fantasma del convento / The Phantom of the Convent (1934) Fernando de Fuentes, Enrique del Campo, Marta Roel, Carlos Villatoro, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. Read More »
Sr. Pig / Mr. Pig (2016) Diego Luna, Danny Glover, Maya Rudolph, José María Yazpik, Drama
A kind, broke and dying man , whose best pal is a beautiful pig named Howard , needs to find him a new loving home before he dies. Read More »
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 »