Soundtrack: Lucía Alvarez

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Ernesto Laguardia · Julieta Egurrola · Blanca Guerra · Lucía Muñoz

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by the Egyptian Nobel-Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz. The widow Ignacia places all the family hopes in his son Gabriel. All the members of the family make...

Direction Jorge Fons

Cast Salma Hayek · Ernesto Gómez Cruz · Margarita Sanz · María Rojo

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Ernesto Gómez Cruz · Blanca Guerra · Alejandro Parodi · Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

Plot Based on a Juan Rulfo story, this film tells the story of Dionisio Pinzon, a poor peasant who becomes wealthy by raising gamecocks. He marries "La Caponera", whom he takes...

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Patricia Reyes Spíndola · Alberto Estrella · Blanca Guerra · Ana Ofelia Murguía

Plot La Reina de la noche is the "imaginary biography" of Mexican popular singer Lucha Reyes. Filmed entirely in sequence-shots, the story concentrates in the singer's stormy relationship with her mother...

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Patricia Reyes Spíndola · Alejandro Parodi · Evangelina Sosa · Damián Alcázar

Plot Based on Guy de Maupassant's short story Le port that also inspired Arcady Boitler's 1933 classic Mexican melodrama. La mujer del puerto is the story of Perla, a prostitute and...

Direction Ignacio Ortiz

Cast Arturo Ríos · Luisa Huertas · Ana Graham · Dagoberto Gama

Plot An award winning film from Mexico traces one family from the era of Emperor Maximilian to the present day. Follow the legacy of a boy who dares to stare into...

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Alonso Echánove · Delia Casanova · Ernesto Yáñez · Luisa Huertas

Plot Set 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...

Direction Ignacio Ortiz

Cast Dagoberto Gama · Ana Graham · Ricardo Blume · Angelina Peláez

Plot One stormy day a group of people coincide in a bar in a mythical town called Parián - the place where all roads and all destinies merge. Each finds solace...

Direction Jorge Fons

Cast Daniel Giménez Cacho · José María Yazpik · Julio Bracho · Irene Azuela

Direction Juan Ibáñez

Cast Silvia Pinal · Mario Almada · Guillermo Orea · Martha Zabaleta

Direction Moisés Ortiz Urquidi · Terry Fernández · Mauricio Meneses

Cast Dolores Heredia · Jorge Lavat · Mauricio Somuano · Carlos Torres Torrija

Direction Moisés Ortiz Urquidi

Cast Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez · Damián Alcázar · Carmen Salinas · Luisa Huertas

Plot Alejandra (Gutiérrez), a drugstore clerk, receives a note from a strange man (Alcázar). The note only shows a number, but Alejandra seems to understand its meaning. That night, Alejandra walks...

Direction Sergio Véjar

Cast Pedro Fernández · Daniela Leites · Mario Almada · José Elias Moreno

Direction Javier 'Fox' Patrón

Cast Aurora Cortés · Joaquín Garrido · Ana Ofelia Murguía · Dino García

Plot An old lady tries to take a flower pot up to her house...

Direction Juan Manuel Torres

Cast Mercedes Carreño · Ricardo Blume · Pedro Damián · Pilar Souza

Plot Marcela used to be a successful film star. Her pictures earned her a reputation as sex goddess, although in truth, she is rather shy and sweet-natured. After marrying an overwhelmingly...