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Tag Archives: Mexico
Red Dawn (1989) Jorge Fons, Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán

Mexico City, October 2, 1968. Ten days before the Olympic Games a small student revolt turns into major political turmoil. Read More »
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 »
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 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 »