El náufrago de la Calle Providencia
May 14, 1971Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.
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Carlos Fuentes
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Jun 09, 2000Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
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Amor Amor Amor
Nov 04, 1965A film that brings together several stories around love and important personalities (directors, actors, screenwriters, production team), in addition to being directed by the new generation of filmmakers.
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Luis Buñuel: constructor de infiernos
Jul 04, 1986Documentary
Un Buñuel mexican
Jan 01, 1997A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.
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Mexico
Mar 09, 1996Using text from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes and ancient Aztec and Mayan poetry, viewers are lead on a visual journey through this country's rich and varied past and present. Stunning images and a dramatic musical score by Daniel Valdez create a vivid, insightful portrait of the Mexican people and their culture
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Los Caifanes
Aug 17, 1967A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.
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Aquellos años
Mar 21, 1974President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Drama
Los Bienamados
Sep 02, 1965Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.
Drama
Vieja moralidad
Jan 01, 1988The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.
Drama
La muerte de Artemio Cruz
Jan 01, 1965Short student film based on the Carlos Fuentes' novel, about the last days of an elderly man.
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Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra
Jan 01, 1981While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.
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Pedro Páramo
Jan 26, 1967When 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…
Drama
Leonora Carrington o el sortilegio irónico
Feb 09, 1965Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
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Aura
Jan 01, 1970Mystery
Old Gringo
Sep 13, 1989Action
La strega in amore
Sep 16, 1966Horror
Muñeca reina
Nov 08, 1972A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
Horror
Tiempo de morir
Aug 11, 1966A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
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Las dos Elenas
Nov 04, 1965Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless, constantly criticized by her mother, also named Elena, who is very refined, correct and bourgeois. The three of them will be involved in a rather ambiguous and at the same time terribly moving moment in their lives.
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Tiempo de morir
Apr 15, 1986A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his village. But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served by Juan complied with the court's justice, but not with some villagers. There are some who still seek true justice.
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Las cautivas
Mar 15, 1973Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his trusted attorney, Arturo, will be in possession of the whole patrimony. Luz being much younger than her late husband, resents this clause that will keep her captive of the dead man for so long. Her attempts to seek release in the night spots of the town do not prove satisfying. Lucia, the maid, starts an extortion scheme against the widow, menacing to denounce the murder of Raimundo with venom, as Luz and Arturo were lovers. The faithful cook and the gardener are dismissed and Lucía literally takes her employer's image, clothes, and manners - forcing Luz to play humbly to her (progressively insane) demands.
Drama
Aura
Jan 01, 1970
El gallo de oro
Dec 18, 1964A 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.
Drama
Entends-tu les chiens aboyer ?
Sep 25, 1975Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
Drama
México, México: Mexique en mouvement
Dec 30, 1968"Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Mexico: its invasions, its revolutions, its sacred lands, its forgotten legends, its religious rituals and this frightening misery. François Reichenbach and his camera sink into the dust, on this sacred land, where "the land never ends."
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Biografías
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