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