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Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Isaura Espinoza, Damayanti Quintanar, Horacio Castelo
Actors: Jimena Ayala, Elena de Haro, Marco Antonio Trevino, Aurora Cano, Elisa Vicedo
Synopsis: The first feature film from director Simon Bross, the drama Bad Habits shows how a person's approach to food greatly affects one's life. Jimena Ayala plays a nun named Matilde who believes that eating next to nothing will help God stop the suffering of others. She trains pudgy, young Linda (Elisa Vicedo Read More
Actors: Maria Barranco, Fernando Luján, Carlos Cobos, Alejandro Camacho, Erando Gonzalez
Synopsis: In this black comedy, master Mexican director Arturo Ripstein (The Holy Office, Deep Crimson) presents another of his trademark looks at the twin forces of absurdity and pathos. Based on a novel by Pedro Antonio Valdez, the film weaves five episodic tales centered around a decrepit Mexican brothel Read More
Actors: Poppy Montgomery, Adam Kaufman, Jose Yenque, Danny Pino, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alana Stewart
Synopsis: Informed by a Chicago police detective that her sister Diane has recently gone missing in Tijuana, Mexico, successful lawyer Nadine Roberts (Poppy Montgomery) travels south of the border on a desperate mission to locate her lost sibling, and instead finds her sanity slipping amidst an unsetting Read More
Actors: Gonzalo Vega, Adriana Fonseca, Arath de la Torre, Maité Embil, Rodrigo Vidal
Synopsis: Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Priego directs the romantic drama The Truce, the second filmed adaptation of the novel by Mario Benedetti. Gonzalo Vega stars as a fiftysomething widower living in Vera Cruz with a high position in a shipping company. Just when he's thinking about retiring, he meets the Read More
Actors: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas
Synopsis: After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek. Hayek ages some 30 years onscreen as she charts Frida Kahlo's life Read More
Actors: Luis Felipe Tovar, Ariadna Gil, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Juan Diego, Julian Pastor
Synopsis: Legendary Mexican director Arturo Ripstein explores the mundane and sexual obsession in 1940s Mexico in his 2002 film The Virgin of Lust. Introverted Ignacio "Nacho" Jurado (Luis Felipe Tovar) spends his days waiting tables at the Cafe Ofelia and his nights amongst his voluminous porno collection. Read More
Actors: Alberto Estrella, Jose Juan Meraz, Patricia Reyes Spindola
Synopsis: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's supernatural drama eXXXorcisms stars Alberto Estrella as a night watchman. Roberto (Estrella) is hired to guard a mall that is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young homosexual who killed himself after a disastrous relationship. Roberto was the other person in that Read More
Actors: Daniel Guzman, Kandido Uranga, Rafael Velasco, Miguel Romero, Patricia Reyes Spindola
Synopsis: A thief discovers that crime runs in the family in this playfully dark comedy from Mexico. Inaki (Daniel Guzman) is a petty thief who makes his way pulling stickups with an elderly partner in crime (Francisco Rabal). The old man dies in the midst of a robbery, which attracts more police attention Read More
Actors: Arcelia Ramirez, Luis Felipe Tovar, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Ernesto Yanez
Synopsis: Using digital video and a skeleton crew, master filmmaker Arturo Ripstein boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices. The film focuses on Julia (Arcelia Ramirez) who works as an homeopathic doctor. Lovelorn and embittered, she Read More
Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Rafael Inclán, Luis Felipe Tovar, Carlos Chavez, Leticia Valenzuela
Synopsis: Arturo Ripstein's black comedy takes its title from a Mexican song about women as the downfall of men. Partitioned into four long scenes, the first sees a badly executed murder in which two killers ambush their victim, stone him to death, and use his wheelbarrow to tow away the body. The film then Read More
Actors: Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclán, Ernesto Yanez
Synopsis: Based on the novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by the same name, but set in the forties, the film is a reflection on life and its illusions by the Mexican master Arturo Ripstein. In a small coastal town in Mexico in the late 1940's, an obstinate colonel of the anticlerical Cristeros War keeps Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Katy Jurado, Carolina Papaleo, Edwarda Gurrola, Bruno Bichir
Synopsis: Mexican director Arturo Ripstein helmed this Mexican-Argentine-Spanish religious drama with Buñuelian overtones. Based on true events that took place in Mexico during the '70s, the film is updated to the present. Mama Dorita (Katy Jurado) leads the New Jerusalem cult with film-buff Papa Basilio (Francisco Rabal Read More
Actors: Regina Orozco, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Marisa Paredes, Veronica Merchant
Synopsis: Noted Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein directed this darkly comic drama of love and murder. Coral Fabre (Regina Orozco) is an overweight, emotionally unstable nurse raising two children on her own. Coral is desperately lonely, and through a "Lonely Hearts" club, she begins corresponding with Read More
Synopsis: The Mexican telenova La Antorcha Encendida concerns a man and a woman from different ends of the socio economic ladder. Their love for each other persists through major cultural differences, as well as through a tumultuous war. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Lourdes Elizarraras, Regina Orozco, Patricia Reyes Spindola, José Alonso
Synopsis: Four Mexican women set forth on an emancipatory journey to Guadalajara in this upbeat drama. The story begins in the tiny pueblo of Comala. Ema, a bank teller, persuades her three friends Chayo, Isabelle and Clotilde to leave their brutish spouses and accompany her on a trip to Guadalajara to find Read More
Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alberto Estrella, Blanca Guerra, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Alex Cox
Synopsis: The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins Read More
Actors: Sergio "El Comanche" Ramos, Lucha Villa, Bruno Bichir, Odiseo Bichir, Miguel Manzano
Synopsis: Gerónimo is justifiably proud of his accomplishments, since he has recently far surpassed his own father in the acquisition of wealth and security. In fact, he is soon to be given a government-financed home. Not only that, but his son has followed in his footsteps as a government bureaucrat. He Read More
Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alejandro Parodi, Evangelina Sosa, Damián Alcázar, Ernesto Yanez
Synopsis: Even with careful handling, this sordid story based on a tale by the famed French writer Guy de Maupassant might repel would-be viewers, but add in scatology and high-blown philosophical maunderings by the lead characters, and you have a recipe for a cinematic disaster. In the story, a sailor has Read More
Actors: Ofelia Medina, Evangelina Sosa
Synopsis: This biographical drama illustrates scenes from the life of the Mexican author of many cherished romantic poems Manuel Acuña, who died by his own hand at the age of 24. While studying at the Academy of San Carlos, the young rake seduces his maid and then shuns her for the arms of another. However Read More
Actors: José Carlos Ruiz, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alejandro Parodi, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Angélica Aragón
Synopsis: This filmed biography explores the life of the Mexican artist Francisco Goitia (played by Jose Carlos Ruiz), whose internal struggle with what he perceived to be a conflict between art and religious faith worked itself out in his many paintings. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Rafael Sanchez Navarro, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Alejandro Parodi, Salvador Sanchez, Socorro Bonilla
Synopsis: The Mexican "Desarrollo de Investigacion para la Planeacion Familiar" or Diplaf, a state-funded family-planning agency, funded this cautionary drama, filmed in a somewhat avant-garde and experimental manner. In the story, a childless couple suffer endlessly, and their relationship deteriorates as Read More
Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola, Sergio "El Comanche" Ramos, Dunia Saldivar
Synopsis: Carmen (Patricia Reyes Spindola) is saddled with an alcoholic mother (Leonor Llansas) who interferes with the care of her two small children in this low-budget drama. She marries Chuy (Uriel Chavez) the taxi driver, but soon she is concerned when he mysteriously disappears. Carmen's search for her Read More
Actors: Katy Jurado, Manuel Ojeda, Héctor Suárez, Rodrigo Puebla, Patricia Reyes Spindola
Synopsis: In this anti-religious Mexican movie, based on a play by Carlos Solorzano, the actors who, every year, re-enact the Passion Play during Holy Week in Ixtapapalapa are shown to be deformed and stupid. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Manuel Ojeda, Venetia Vianello, Bruno Rey, Fernando Soler
Synopsis: While searching for his father Pedro Parama, a young boy discovers only horror. He comes to a deserted village and begins to unravel a story of love and despair. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, Bill [William] Lucking, Jorge Luke
Synopsis: In this sequel to A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris is back as a blue-blooded Englishman who returns to America to help the Indians who had once adopted him. Seeing their lands being taken over by greedy whites, he joins forces with the Sioux tribe to help them defend their birthborn rights. Read More
Actors: Diana Bracho, Eduardo Lopez Rojas
Synopsis: Originally Actas De Marusia, this Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small Chilean mining town in 1907. Suffering under the despotic rule of the British mine owners, the workers stage a revolt. The government's solution is to utterly destroy the town Read More
Actors: Patricia Reyes Spindola
Synopsis: In The House in the South, a group of desperately impoverished desert dwellers are induced by a government program to move to a lush tropical island if they can ever get there. Their obstacle earlier was simply the cruelty of nature; in their new situation, mankind's cruelty to mankind is the worm Read More
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