In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town’s riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town’s richest men.Read More »
Mexico
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Emilio Fernández – Enamorada AKA In Love (1946)
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Yulene Olaizola – Selva trágica AKA Tragic Jungle (2020)
Yulene Olaizola2011-2020ArthouseMexicoMysteryQuote:
To escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.Read More » -
Juan López Moctezuma – To Kill a Stranger (1984)
1981-1990HorrorJuan López MoctezumaMexicoThrillerator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband’s efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.Read More »
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Juan López Moctezuma – Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
1971-1980CultHorrorJuan López MoctezumaMexicoA beautiful artist moonlights as a vampire while in Mexico, killing lovers of both sex. It seems that the only person who has any chance of stopping her reign of terror is her father; who’s also a vampire.Read More »
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Michel Franco – Nuevo orden AKA New Order (2020)
2011-2020DramaMexicoMichel FrancoA lavish high-society wedding unexpectedly turns into a class struggle that leads to a violent coup.
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Guillermo del Toro – Cronos [+ Commentaries] (1993)
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A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.Read More » -
Lucía Carreras – Nos vemos, papá AKA Missing Dad (2011)
2011-2020DramaLucia CarrerasMexicoQuote:
Pilar lives alone with her dad. One day after returning from work, she finds that he has passed away. From that moment on, her reality and memories are mixed in a disturbing way. Her life continues yet she is hunted by the presence of his father, she rejects her family and her desperate attempts to bring her normality. Alienated with grief, her life will clash between reality and desire.Read More » -
Philippe Grandrieux & Lav Diaz & Manuela De Laborde & Óscar Enríquez – Liminal (2020)
ExperimentalLav DiazManuela de LabordeMexicoÓscar EnríquezPhilippe GrandrieuxA FICUNAM commission for four directors, Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music. Moving across aesthetic and generational differences, the film-makers explore this relationship through four distinct stories as to context and imaginary.
Within the category of world cinéma d’auteur, Philippe Grandrieux and Lav Diaz have much in common in terms of their affinities with radical cinematographic form: both are extremely inventive in their practical relationship between music and narration.Read More »
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Issa López – Vuelven AKA Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
2011-2020FantasyHorrorIssa LópezMexicoQuote:
A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.Read More »