The Year of the Plague

The Year of the Plague 1978

5.10

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.

1978

Survival Run

Survival Run 1979

2.70

A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times. When their van breaks down, they find a group of prospectors who welcome the kids and offer them a place to stay until they can get help. It soon becomes evident, however, that there is more to these prospectors than they claim, and soon the teens are fleeing for their lives.

1979

The Place Without Limits

The Place Without Limits 1978

7.38

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

1978

Violent Stories

Violent Stories 1985

5.70

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

1985

Living Is What Matters

Living Is What Matters 1987

5.40

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.

1987

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World 1982

4.20

The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution.

1982

Barrio de campeones

Barrio de campeones 1981

7.20

Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant she owns.

1981

Romelia's Secret

Romelia's Secret 1988

7.20

The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.

1988

Hot Snake

Hot Snake 1978

5.20

A sadistic and ruthless outlaw has been terrorizing the town of Hot Snake. A bounty hunter named Emiliano is hired by the local sheriff to hunt down the outlaw after he murders a woman and steals money belonging to the Army. Warned by a local bruja not to take the bounty, Emiliano soon finds himself the target of a mysterious man who seeks to settle a personal vendetta.

1978

Desires

Desires 1977

5.30

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

1977

Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta

Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta 1991

4.60

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.

1991

In the Storm

In the Storm 1982

4.50

In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he decided to do it in Mexico with Mexican actors and recreating the Colombian landscapes in that country.

1982

At a Lame Pace

At a Lame Pace 1980

4.50

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

1980

Crónica roja

Crónica roja 1979

5.20

After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.

1979

El diablo y la dama

El diablo y la dama 1984

5.00

The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.

1984

Días de Combate

Días de Combate 1982

5.00

A private detective starts a game of cat and mouse with a psychopath who strangles women who leaves messages on the bodies of his victims.

1982

Lola

Lola 1989

4.70

A single mother sells clothes on the streets to support her daughter in Mexico City after the earthquake.

1989