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Luis Buñuel – Los Olvidados AKA The Young and the Damned [+Extras] (1950)
Quote: Luis Bunuel classic from 1950. It is a tale of savage acts committed by impoverished youths in Mexico City. It is a film that has been kept fresh by its spirit and its style. Far from being...
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Nicolás Pereda – El palacio (2013)
Pereda’s films pass through a transitional period; Los mejores temas was probably a conscious farewell to a filmic representation system while Matar extraños turned out to be an enigmatic first test;...
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Jaime Humberto Hermosillo – Matinée (1977)
Synopsis (University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) Within the framework of a thriller, Hermosillo presents in Matinee a film that is rich in the dreams and ambiguities...
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Luis Buñuel – El AKA This Strange Passion (1953)
Quote: Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry...
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Alfonso Cuarón – Y tu mamá también AKA And Your Mother Too [+Extras] (2001)
Quote: Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet the older Luisa at a wedding. Trying to be impressive, the friends tell Luisa they are headed on a road trip to a...
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Nicolás Pereda – Los ausentes (2014)
A poor man in his mid seventies lives alone in a house near the beach in the south of Mexico. He doesn’t have the and deed and a foreign man claims the property is his. The man attends a hearing to...
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Alfonso Cuarón – Cuarteto para el fin del tiempo AKA Quartet for the End of...
A man sits alone in his apartment. Why does he watch as his goldfish washes down the drain? Why does he blow up balloons then release them out the window for no one to see? And for whom does he take...
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Servando González – El escapulario AKA The Scapular (1968)
Synopsis: A woman who is about to die calls the town’s priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead. In the times...
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René Cardona Jr. – Cyclone (1978)
What starts out as a beautiful peaceful afternoon in the Caribbean quickly turns ugly when a Cyclone takes down a Jet plane killing most of its passengers. Out at sea about the same time is a group of...
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Ricardo Silva – Navajazo (2014)
The imagined apocalypse presented to us through portraits of characters struggling to survive in a hostile environment, where all they have is each other, and the only thing they posses in common is...
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Raya Martin & Mark Peranson – La última película (2013)
In this documentary within a narrative-and vice versa-a grandiose filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry) arrives in the Yucatán to scout locations for his new movie, a production that will involve exposing the...
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Fernando de Fuentes – Vámonos con Pancho Villa! AKA Let’s Go With Pancho...
Synopsis: Six hearty fellows in the tiny hamlet of San Pablo decide to join the revolutionary army of Pancho Villa. The Federales have already put a price on the head of young Miguel Ángel del Toro...
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Luis Buñuel – Simón del desierto AKA Simon of the Desert [+Extra] (1965)
Quote: Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six...
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Luis Buñuel – Nazarín AKA Nazarin (1959)
Quote: Acclaimed director Luis Buñuel displays several of his trademark interests in this drama about a priest who leaves his order. The director´s disdain for organized religion and the...
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Gust Van den Berghe – Lucifer (2014)
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. Lupita’s brother Emanuel pretends he’s...
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Mitl Valdez – Los confines (1987)
Quote: Mitl Valdez’s film Los confines (1987) is an adaptation of several works of fiction by the Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The director chose to adapt two short stories (“Talpa” and “¡Diles que no...
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Amat Escalante – La región salvaje AKA The Untamed (2016)
Quote: A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of...
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Emiliano Rocha Minter – Tenemos la carne AKA We Are the Flesh (2016)
Quote: In what seems to be a post-apocalyptic world, a grubby middle-aged man goes about the business of survival in a derelict building. His solitary, wordless existence changes with the arrival of...
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Alejandro González Iñárritu – Biutiful (2010)
Quote: This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move. Quote: It’s a real testament to a filmmaker’s abilities when one of his pieces...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky – The Panic Fables Mystic Teachings and Initiatory Tales...
The complete series of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s spiritual comics, translated into English for the first time • Contains all 284 of Jodo’s Panic Fables comics, published weekly from 1967 to...
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