Circus horrors cross over into the mundane world in this terrifying, psychedelic film from Alejandro Jodorowsky, the man who brought you the infamous El Topo. Fenix (Adan Jodorowsky, the director's son) is the son of a circus strongman (Guy Stockwell) and an aerialist (Blanca Guerra). One night, the mother sees from her high perspective that her ...
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, a college professor finds his life is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man. Fernando Luján, Ariadna Welter, and Guillermo Orea headline the film's cast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
The murder of a taxi dancer and her pimp provide the motivation for this crime melodrama, a remake of Emilio Fernandez's famed Salon Mexico. Set in the '30s, the crime occured in a popular Mexico City dance hall with the bodies being discovered in the dressing room of the dancer, Mercedes. Beside her lay her sleazy lover Paco. Police inspector ...
The gritty Mexican drama Perro Callejero 2 follows the continuing exploits of the lead character, a former orphan who finds life is very difficult on the streets. The film opens with him leaving prison, and beginning work as a drug trafficker. Soon his attempts to get away from the criminal life are thwarted by crooked cops. ~ Perry Seibert, All ...
Spending the bulk of her time working and raising her child alone, Julia's life is filled with mundane grays. The only color in her life comes from her Wednesday night trips to Mexico City where she dances the danzon with her long-time partner Carmelo. But one night, she goes to dance and Carmelo is not there. At first puzzled, and then obsessed, ...
The gritty Mexican drama Perro Callejero concerns a young orphan who has been raised in the meanest, poorest streets of Mexico. During the course of the film he is lucky enough to find gainful employment, but his environment and its effect on him makes it harder and harder for him to better himself. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Set to the pulsating soundtrack of Mexican rock music, director Paul Leduc's gritty look at life in the ghettoes of Mexico City during the 1980s ventures into the places rarely seen by tourists and outsiders. In traveling seldom explored side streets, visiting the local bars, and swaying to the music of the best-known rock acts that the city has ...
Don Rogelio always had a roving eye, but after his feisty wife left him over fifteen years ago, he has been going after women in wholesale quantities. He doesn't really enjoy all this activity, but it helps fill the empty space his wife left behind. Meanwhile, his grown daughter has come to visit, and she is making behind-the-scenes moves to ...
Dull-witted Mexican peasant Ernesto Gomez Cruz comes into possession of a rooster severely injured in a cockfight. He restores the bird's health and wins several bouts, then runs afoul of gambler Alejandro Parodi, who has the rooster's ribs cracked so it can never win again. Taking Cruz under his wing, the gambler teaches the peasant how to be ...
Mexican director Fernando Sarinana's comedy Charm School (aka Niñas Mal) represented the first feature to be produced by Columbia Films Producciones Mexico. This Spanish-language teen film follows the adventures of 18-year-old Adela (Martha Higareda), a terminal misfit whose parents ship her off to Mexico's only remaining preparatory school for ...
Alex Cox directed this hallucinatory bio-pic starring Ed Harris as 19th-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and eventually a Nicaraguan dictator. When his deaf wife (Marlee Matlin) dies of cholera (but not before she utilizes sign ...
Joaquin (Manuel Ojeda) and his beautiful wife Susana (Blanca Guerra) are indeed In the Middle of Nowhere in this crime drama. The couple run a little gas station and store in a sparsely populated and desert-like region of Mexico. When a wounded man (Guillermo Garcia Cantu) arrives at the spot accompanied by his brother (Emilio Cortes) and wife ...
Alberto Cortes wrote and directed this Mexican-Cuban drama, an adaptation the Nicolas Dorr play about aging Violeta (Blanca Guerra) who tells her life-story to Cuban journalist Felix (David Ramy) during 24 hours in her small apartment above a Chinese restaurant. After her first lover was killed by soldiers, she became a NYC stripper and hooker, ...
In this average, made for pay-TV adventure yarn loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Challenger's Gold, the archaeologist Dr. Christopher Falcon (John Marley) is called away from a dig in an Arab country to assess a startling find in Mexico, with the usual dangerous results. When he arrives, he immediately sees that among the uncovered items is a ...
The family film El Caballito Volador concerns a boy who, in order to save his family's farm, sets off with a flying pony for a series of adventures. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
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