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René Cardona Jr. – La casa que arde de noche (1985)
Quote:A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry disguised as affection with the old owner. She manages to take over the business and the old lady’s lover. After disputes with her now...
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Rogelio A. González – La sangre enemiga AKA The Enemy Blood (1971)
A group of people suffering from mental retardation, blindness and physical malformations work in a traveling circus. Quote:If there is a controversial Mexican cinema that tried to renew itself, it is...
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Nicolás Pereda – Dear Chantal (2021)
A mysterious, moving, miniature homage to Chantal Akerman, conceived as a series of playfully impossible letters addressed to the deceased cinema great that respond to her fictitious enquiry about...
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Fernando de Fuentes – El fantasma del convento AKA The Phantom of the Convent...
Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina...
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Ismael Rodríguez – Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
MY SON, THE HERO (1961)In northern Mexico, in the early twentieth century, Reynaldo and Martín Del Hierro are witnesses of the murder of their father by Pascual Velasco. Spurred to vengeance by their...
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Jaime Humberto Hermosillo – La pasión según Berenice AKA The Passion of...
Berenice (Navarro) is a woman with a mysterious past. A scar crosses her face and nightmares of fire and horses fill her lonely nights. She maybe killed her husband but nobody can be sure. In the...
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Jonás Cuarón – Año uña AKA Year of the Nail (2007)
What could be more austere than the first film directed by Alfonso Cuarón’s young son Jonás, who also takes credits for script and photography? Like Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée (the only other...
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Ismael Rodríguez – Dos tipos de cuidado AKA Two Careful Fellows (1953)
It is the story of the two best friends, Pedro Malo y Jorge Bueno, they dated Maria (Jorge´sister)and Rosario (Pedro´s cousin) together they are nice and funny couples. One year has passed and the...
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José Bolaños – Pedro Páramo (1976)
Pedro Páramo, owner of the hacienda La Media Luna in the town of Comala and of the largest area of land, has the habit of taking any woman from the region ; nevertheless, he has not been able to get...
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Robert Rodriguez – El Mariachi (1992)
Rodriguez’ Sundance Award-winning feature length indie debut. A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him. El...
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Emilio Fernández – Erótica (1979)
SynopsisTwo man commit a robbery. One is caught and the other runaway. He ends his escape in a lonely and deserted beach when he meets a beautiful woman named Erotica. They both start a passionate...
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Natalia López – Manto de gemas AKA Robe of Gems (2022)
Quote:Isabel is in the middle of divorce proceedings. She moves into an old mansion once owned by her family. When the sister of Isabel’s co-worker Marta disappears without a trace, police chief...
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Michelle Garza Cervera – Huesera AKA The Bone Woman (2022)
Quote:Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off....
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Servando González – Viento negro AKA Black Wind (1965)
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the...
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Juan Pablo González – Dos Estaciones (2022)
In the bucolic hills of Mexico’s Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory....
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Francisco Elías – María de la O (1939)
Plot: A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors...
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Arturo Ripstein – La perdición de los hombres AKA The Ruination of Men (2000)
Quote:In “La perdición de los hombres”, Ripstein once again enters the world of misery, though his characters are not precisely outcasts as the fat nurse and her gigolo lover. This time he returns to...
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Federico Curiel – Las momias de Guanajuato AKA The Mummies of Guanajuato (1972)
The Mummy of the legendary wrestler Satan awakes 100 years after his death, as Satan was also a powerful sorcerer who vowed to take revenge over the City of Guanajuato before dying....
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Nicolás Gutiérrez Wenhammar – Mil ojos me observan aka Thousand staring eyes...
Synopsis: Mara, a 19-year-old woman from San Pedro Sula, came to Mexico fleeing her past. The place where she lived never accepted her, it is something she will not forget. Mara works in a small, dark...
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Nicolás Gutiérrez Wenhammar – Serranilla (2021)
Synopsis: Agustina has been a shepherdess for as long as she can remember. Throughout her life she has had three great loves. Between dreams and memories she sings about everything that has and has...
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