Barrio de campeones 1981
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.
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.
A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Dramatization of a popular '70s corrido.
A gang of bikers wrecks havoc.
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.
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.
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.
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.
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.
In the 16th century, the Inquisition condemns Count Orloff, a vampire and sorcerer to death. In the 19th century, the vampire Madame Kostoff arrives in Mexico and buys the house where the vampire was buried and revives him.
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
A group of friends go to the United States to hit it big as a musical group and follow the American Dream.
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.
A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.
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.
Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from that moment will be responsible for his education. Pedro begins an almost familiar relationship with Doña Gregoria and Martina, wife and daughter of his master. The appearance of Alfredo, and roommate and colleague of studies, complete the circle of his emotional environment. Provincial life, relationships with peers and the special relationship between life and death instilled by Don Mateo, definitely will influence his future life.
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.