Videoteca

Everyone's Hell so Feared 1981 star_border 5.5
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.

Las grandes aguas 1980 star_border 5
Public-works engineer entrusted with a big project faces problems in his home life and conflicts with a corrupt local businessman.

The Perfect Woman 1979 star_border 5
Marcela, a former film star, seeks tranquility in the suburbs after marrying a wealthy industrialist. Her past haunts her with admirers and daily violence. Overwhelmed by a distant husband, a demanding child, critical in-laws, and loneliness, she escapes to an imaginary world to avoid the grim and the ugly.

The House of the Pelican 1978 star_border 5.5
An elementary school teacher tries to rebuild her life with her son, which is the result of a rape in a distant city. The child tries to grow in a common way, but his mother overprotects him with terrible consecuences

The Nights of Paloma 1978 star_border 3.2
While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.

Cananea 1978 star_border 5.6
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.

The Children of Sanchez 1978 star_border 5.7
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.

La Güera Rodríguez 1978 star_border 4
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.

La casta divina 1977 star_border 6.6
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.

Holy Pafnucio 1977 star_border 5.7
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)

Cuartelazo 1977 star_border 5.2
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.

Maten al León 1977 star_border 5.7
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).

The Passion of Berenice 1976 star_border 5.7
When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.

Life Changes 1976 star_border 5.6
An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...

Resigned for Reasons of Health 1976 star_border 5.8
A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.

Coronation 1976 star_border 4.9
The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.

Pink Zone 1976 star_border 3.1
In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor, a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite with an old lover. Suddenly, the man reappears to take her away from her life of vice. But the debt owed by Leonor to the "Madame" of the house causes a series of conflicts.

The Cornered Beast 1975 star_border 5.3
A man who pretends to be a Dutch immigrant, is discovered by the Israelite Secret Service that he is a German Nazi War Criminal who escaped to Mexico.

Tivoli 1975 star_border 7
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.

El valle de los miserables 1975 star_border 4.2

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