Cinematography: Gabriel Figueroa

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Alfonso Mejía · Roberto Cobo · Estela Inda · Miguel Inclán

Synopsis El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of his friend Pedro, the boy who apparently was responsible for...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Silvia Pinal · Enrique Rambal · Jacqueline Andere · José Baviera

Synopsis High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party. The uncomfortable situation extends far beyond the limits of their patience and survival instincts start to arise.

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Delia Garcés · Aurora Walker · Carlos Martínez Baena

Synopsis Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but...

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Pina Pellicer · Enrique Lucero · Mario Alberto Rodríguez

Synopsis Macario is a poor, hungry peasant, with a wife and several children, who sells wood in the town. Fed up with a life full of hardships, Macario longs for a good meal. In an attempt to satisfy his wishes, his...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Francisco Rabal · Marga López · Rita Macedo · Ignacio López Tarso

Synopsis Indigent village priest, Father Nazario is prepared to completely sacrifice himself in order to show the villagers the radically giving, humble, selfless way of life that he believes is the true Christian calling. But he discovers that most of the...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Claudio Brook · Silvia Pinal · Hortensia Santoveña · Jesus Fernandez

Direction John Huston

Cast Richard Burton · Deborah Kerr · Ava Gardner · Sue Lyon

Synopsis When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour guide for a bus load of spinsters and a teenage...

Direction Brian G. Hutton

Cast Clint Eastwood · Donald Sutherland · Telly Savalas · Don Rickles

Synopsis Lieutenant Kelly (Clint Eastwood) is an atypical Army man who, while boozing with a captured German general, learns of $16 million worth of gold bars behind enemy lines. Kelly reveals a plan to his fellow soldiers: They will use their...

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Christiane Martel · Reinhold Olszewski · Rita Macedo

Synopsis An illiterate Indian (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him...

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Pedro Armendáriz · Estela Inda · Domingo Soler

Direction Ismael Rodríguez

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Alida Valli · Susana Cabrera · Guillermo Orea

Synopsis A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.

Direction Emilio Fernández

Cast Dolores del Rio · Pedro Armendáriz · Alberto Galán · Margarita Cortés

Direction Emilio Fernández

Cast Columba Domínguez · Roberto Cañedo · Arturo Soto Rangel · Manuel Dondé

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Pina Pellicer · Ignacio López Tarso · Adriana Roel · Luis Lomeli

Direction Emilio Fernández

Cast María Félix · Pedro Armendáriz · Fernando Fernández · José Morcillo

Synopsis In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general (Armendáriz) and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel (María Félix), the daughter...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Félix Balderas · Martín Hernández · David Liceága · Julio Saldívar

Synopsis A legendary production plagued by problems almost from the outset, the making of QUE VIVA MEXICO cured Sergei Eisenstein of the desire ever to work in North America again. On the verge of leaving Hollywood in disgust in 1930, Eisenstein...

Direction Fernando de Fuentes

Cast Antonio R. Frausto · Domingo Soler · Manuel Tamés · Ramón Vallarino

Synopsis The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. After several battles...

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Dolores del Rio · Pedro López Lagar · Eduardo Noriega · Alejandro Ciangherotti

Direction Emilio Fernández

Cast Pedro Armendáriz · María Elena Marqués · Fernando Wagner · Gilberto González

Direction Ismael Rodríguez

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Columba Domínguez · Flor Silvestre · Pepe Romay

Synopsis Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens....