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- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaDelia CasanovaMarta AuraLuz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as Purgatory: it's only one step to reach Heaven.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsArturo MezaMarco TreviñoGuadalupe Del ToroRodolfo ( Marco Treviño ) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon ( Arturo Meza ). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, he quickly asks modern and open-mind Olga ( Letícia Lupercio ) to become his wife. Ramon is heart-broken, but Dona Herlinda ( Guadalupe Del Toro ) has the final solution to make everybody happy: She asks Ramon to live with her, near by Rodolfo and Olga. Everybody together forever.
- DirectorJorge FonsStarsHéctor BonillaMaría RojoJorge FegánA Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
- DirectorBusi CortésStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Dolores BeristáinDiana BrachoAn elder woman (Romelia), her daughter and her grandchildren take a few days on holidays to visit a small town outside the city. The town makes Romelia melancholy and her daughter wants to find out about the mystery of her unknown father.
- DirectorAlberto IsaacStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Elizabeth AguilarIsabel AndradeIn 1940s Mexico City, schoolboy Carlos falls in love with his best friend's mother, Mariana. Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the typical Mexican families of the time because although they aren't rich, they have many expensive American things. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsErnesto Gómez CruzBlanca GuerraAlejandro ParodiPoor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsAna Patricia RojoElsa María GutiérrezLeonor LlausásA 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
- DirectorAlberto CortésStarsJuan Carlos ColomboEmilio CortésAlonso EchánoveMaria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a prostitute. She frequents bars and saloons, commits some robberies, but neither sex, nor the tequila, can replace love.
- DirectorPaul LeducStarsRoberto SosaBlanca GuerraCecilia Toussaint
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Jorge BalzarettiMarcela CamachoA young deaf-mute woman who lives and has intercourse with a blind man many years her senior inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor into her strange, hallucinatory underworld populated by those beings whose mutilation and impaired physical differences have caused society to reject them.
- DirectorAlfredo GurrolaStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.JulissaErnesto Gómez CruzSeveral young women are murdered in a small community, and a detective moves in to solve the crimes.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsLuis Manuel PelayoBruno ReyJulio Alejandro LobatoVillagers of towns affected during the Cristero War in 1926-29, in Mexico.
- DirectorGabriel RetesStarsManolo FábregasAarón HernánTina Romero
- DirectorValentín TrujilloStarsValentín TrujilloRodolfo de AndaAngélica ChainPedro's life and how his life changes due to twists of fate, with gang themes.
- DirectorGilberto GazcónStarsValentín TrujilloAna Luisa PeluffoLyn MayThe life of an orphan boy in a big city, surrounded by poverty, crime and violence. As he grew up, he began a life of crime.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsAlonso EchánoveDelia CasanovaErnesto YáñezSet in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship
- DirectorPaul LeducStarsFrancisco RabalÁngela MolinaErnesto Gómez CruzA series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?' (De donde son los cantantes? in spanish: the title of a popular cuban song).
- DirectorRené Cardona IIIStarsPedro FernándezJulio AlemánGabriela HasselAn evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred years later a family arrived to spend their vacation at a summer home located in the same immediate countryside area where the witch was killed. Trouble ensues when little girl daughter Gaby finds an ugly doll that's possessed by the lethal spirit of the malevolent witch.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsGonzalo VegaMaribel GuardiaClaudio ObregónIsabel Martinez (Maribel Guardia) is a naive stay-at-home wife, who constantly is being mistreated by her abusive husband, what they do not know is their quiet and polite neighbor is actually a crazed sex maniac.
- DirectorIsmael Rodríguez Jr.StarsCuitlahuac RodríguezNarciso BusquetsRoxana ChávezCorrupt police agent Pancho catches two colombian traffickers and uses them to widen his network of crime and vice.
- DirectorJosé EstradaStarsSergio JiménezCarmen SalinasArturo AlegroComedy about what happens when a low-income Mexican family decides to change its lifestyle after seeing the glittering adverts about a new real estate development.
- DirectorAlfonso Rosas Priego hijoStarsAndrés GarcíaSasha MontenegroAdalberto MartínezBased on the international hit song, 'Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife)' is the story of the coolest street-smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City. The police are after him, his rivals are after him, and all the while the most beautiful women of Mexico are in the cup of his hand.
- DirectorLuis AntúnezStarsAlma MurielHumberto ZuritaJosé Carlos RuizA newly married couple on their honeymoon fall into the hands of two evil sadists.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsHumberto ZuritaMaría RojoJosé Carlos RuizPedro (Humberto Zurita) commands an guerrilla group. In a failed attack on a senior government official, the rebels abduct Pablo (Manuel Ojeda), who is Pedro's former party colleague. The guerrillas are besieged in a safe house and have to deliberate on the fate of Pablo.
- DirectorAlberto BojórquezStarsAlma MurielGonzalo VegaErnesto Gómez CruzIrene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
- DirectorRaúl AraizaStarsManuel OjedaNorma HerreraJosé Carlos RuizMariano Ortega works in an oil platform in Campeche. He's away from home 2 weeks each month and he can't fight with his obsession about his wife's past, believing she can cheat him.
- DirectorSergio OlhovichStarsManuel OjedaDiana BrachoDelia CasanovaA writer finds himself amid a spiral of violence, alcohol and his leftist ideologies, eventually being locked down in an asylum, where he leads a rebellion.
- DirectorArchibaldo BurnsJosé Luis UrquietaStarsEnrique LizaldeJulissaManuel OjedaSet in 1934 and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
- DirectorDiego López RiveraStarsJosé Carlos RuizGustavo AguilarTomás AlcázarThe closeness of his death and a final impulse to paint one more painting, lead the Mexican painter Francisco Goitia to remember his life.
- DirectorJosé EstradaStarsJulissaClaudia IslasGregorio CasalOne weekend in Mexico City, the inhabitants of an old apartment building celebrate two different ceremonies: a debutante party (Quinceanera) and a velatory. Neighbors get mixed between the two pachangas while love, sex, comedy, and tragedy are combined into a funny and explosive cocktail.
- DirectorRoberto G. RiveraStarsHéctor SuárezRafael InclánRoberto CañedoThe tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsIrene PapasClaudia OhanaMichael LonsdaleWhile Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
- DirectorJosé Luis MoroSantiago MoroStarsCristina CamargoAlfonso ObregonHéctor LeeYoung caterpillar Katy leaves her cherry-leaf tree home and her three sisters one day to learn more about the world and herself. She explores the nearby forest and meets various animals, other insects and even the spirit of Mother Nature.
- DirectorGerardo PardoStarsLucy ReinaGerardo de la PeñaTenoch RamosTeen angst in Mexico City is made all the worse by a young provincial woman's infatuation for a ghost, in this effective drama about disturbed youth. Aida arrives in Mexico City and is immediately introduced into the world of drugs and sex by the friends she meets. Before long, she is having visions of the ghostly "El Humo" ("Smoke") and after she meets him at a party, they both are struck by Cupid's arrow. After some back-and-forth stepping around the nature of their relationship, El Humo disappears for five days, and Aida is distraught -- she locks herself up in her dark room, smokes some weed, takes a few hallucinogenic mushrooms, and then has a vision that clears up the mystery surrounding El Humo.
- DirectorMitl ValdezStarsRigoberto CarmonaCarlos Esteban ChávezUriel ChávezDifferent characters and situations taken from the narrative work of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo come together in this film. After arriving in Comala, Juan Preciado stays at the home of a couple of incestuous brothers; Juvencio Nava flees from various men who are pursuing him for the alleged murder, many years ago, of Colonel Guadalupe Terreros; Finally, two brothers-in-law take Natalia's dying husband to Talpa in the hope that the virgin will work a miracle and cure him.
- DirectorSergio OlhovichStarsDmitriy KharatyanLeonid KuravlyovBoris TokarevThe biography of a Russian man, in real life the grandfather of the director Sergio Olhovich, who comes to Mexico running away from the Russian Revolution.
- DirectorMarcela Fernández ViolanteStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Helena RojoErnesto Gómez CruzDuring his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsLeticia HuijaraAlejandra CerrilloMartha NavarroLola is a struggling saleswoman with problems, causing her to ask her mother to take care of her young daughter. With her husband in LA, she realizes how important life really is and being alone, she longs to have her daughter back.