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Forbidden Homework 1992 star_border 4.5
A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival.

Dreaming About You 1992 star_border 7.3
Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.

Tequila 1992 star_border 5.4
Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a cinematic extension of Mexico’s muralist tradition, a contemporary equivalent of Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros with vignettes, quick ideas, visual puns, cartoons, and political statements.

Homework 1991 star_border 6.6
Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.

Clandestine Destiny 1987 star_border 4.2
In a indeterminate future, Mexico would be a part of USA. In this context, the protagonist live under political and sexual repression.

Frida Still Life 1986 star_border 5.2
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.

Doña Herlinda and Her Son 1985 star_border 5.2
A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman.

Confidencias 1982 star_border 4.4
Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but...

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.

El amor tiene cara de mujer 1973 star_border 5
The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.

María 1972 star_border 6.7
Romance melodrama set in 19th century Colombia.

La Generala 1971 star_border 5.4
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.

Narda o el verano 1970 star_border 5.2
Two friends on a summer getaway find and fall for a mysterious woman who will change their lives forever.

The Chinese Room 1968 star_border 5
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.

Corazón salvaje 1968 star_border 4.3
Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.

El asesino se embarca 1967 star_border 4.8
Cops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship.

Pedro Paramo 1967 star_border 7
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Forbidden Cargo 1966 star_border 5.8
Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.

The Golden Cockerel 1964 star_border 7
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

Autumn Days 1963 star_border 7
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...

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