II. And the Ariel goes to, 1971 to 1989 the authors and the State.
Ariel award to the best movie (1971–1989 a period of transitions, formation, and endurance: the authors and the State). Note that multiple movies tied in the early years.
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- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsAlfonso ArauOfelia MedinaChrista Linder
- DirectorSalomón LaiterStarsJacqueline AndereJorge LukeMilton RodríguezDue to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsClaudio BrookRita MacedoArturo BeristáinThe story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsManolo FábregasLucha VillaHéctor SuárezA mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
- DirectorPaul LeducStarsClaudio ObregónEduardo López RojasErnesto Gómez CruzA dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
- DirectorGonzalo Martínez OrtegaStarsLucha VillaNarciso BusquetsAndrés GarcíaA man returns from Paris to find his home of Chihuahua Mexico occupied by Francisco Villa's revolutionary troops.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMercedes CarreñoGregorio CasalArmando SilvestreMartin lives in a mountain hut with his wife, La Choca, and his son, little Martin, and Flor, Choca's sister. They live through hardship to make ends meet, and Martin does some smuggling. During his abscence, three men arrive, accuse him of having betrayed them, and set a trap to capture him. When he arrives, all hell breaks loose, and out of the carnage only La Choca survives.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsGian Maria VolontèDiana BrachoClaudio ObregónIt is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Martha NavarroEmma RoldánWhen a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRoberto CoboFernando SolerLucha VillaFamily honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón".
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsJosé AlonsoMaría RojoAna Ofelia MurguíaA woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend (Rojo). This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. One day, the mother gets sick and falls into a coma. Her son arrives but she is unconscious. He has a brief but passionate affair with her mother's friend and then disappears, as quickly as he came back from the sea.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Narciso BusquetsErnesto Gómez CruzA former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsAlejandro ParodiJosé Carlos RuizRebeca SilvaA 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorPaul LeducStarsOfelia MedinaJuan José GurrolaMax KerlowThe most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.