The Place Without Limits

The Place Without Limits 1978

7.30

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

1978

El elegido

El elegido 1977

6.30

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

1977

Terror and Black Lace

Terror and Black Lace 1985

5.90

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.

1985

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World 1982

4.20

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.

1982

The Dried Butterflies

The Dried Butterflies 1978

6.40

A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.

1978

Desires

Desires 1977

5.30

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

1977

Living Is What Matters

Living Is What Matters 1987

5.40

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.

1987

The Dracula Dynasty

The Dracula Dynasty 1980

4.90

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.

1980

Call Me Mike

Call Me Mike 1979

5.80

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.

1979

Barrio de campeones

Barrio de campeones 1981

7.20

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.

1981

Lola

Lola 1989

4.70

A single mother sells clothes on the streets to support her daughter in Mexico City after the earthquake.

1989

Violent Stories

Violent Stories 1985

5.70

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

1985

Crónica roja

Crónica roja 1979

5.20

After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.

1979

The Achievers

The Achievers 1978

5.00

A group of friends go to the United States to hit it big as a musical group and follow the American Dream.

1978

Prisión de mujeres

Prisión de mujeres 1977

5.20

'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.

1977

In the Land of Light Feet

In the Land of Light Feet 1982

5.00

During 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.

1982

The Devil and the Lady

The Devil and the Lady 1984

5.00

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.

1984