En la cuerda del hambre

The Exterminating Angel

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

Simon of the Desert

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Viridiana

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Magueyes

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.

La belleza

Los privilegiados

Mexican feature film

Las calles no se siembran

Mexican feature film

Aquel famoso Remington

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

Historia de una mujer escandalosa

La grilla

Whoever is Responsible

Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties.

La mujer de a seis litros

Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.

Entre violetas

Mexican feature film

La casa de Bernarda Alba

A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.

Toña, Born a Virgin

After a youth tormented by her mother, a prostitute, Toña must decide which path to take in life, for better or worse.