The Dried Butterflies 1978
A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.
A disturbed middle aged writer becomes obsessed with a little boy who reminds her of a former lover.
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant she owns.
A sadistic and ruthless outlaw has been terrorizing the town of Hot Snake. A bounty hunter named Emiliano is hired by the local sheriff to hunt down the outlaw after he murders a woman and steals money belonging to the Army. Warned by a local bruja not to take the bounty, Emiliano soon finds himself the target of a mysterious man who seeks to settle a personal vendetta.
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
Dramatization of a popular '70s corrido.
A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
A gang of bikers wrecks havoc.
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
A single mother sells clothes on the streets to support her daughter in Mexico City after the earthquake.
In the 16th century, the Inquisition condemns Count Orloff, a vampire and sorcerer to death. In the 19th century, the vampire Madame Kostoff arrives in Mexico and buys the house where the vampire was buried and revives him.
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.