Carlos Fuentes

Aura (2025)

Mexico (1996)

Using 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. ...

Old Gringo (1989)

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run. ...

Vieja moralidad (1988)

The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century. ...

A Time to Die (1986)

A 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 ...

Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra (1981)

While 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 condu ...

Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? (1974)

Carrying 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 t ...

Those Years (1974)

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico ...

Las cautivas (1973)

Raimundo, 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 trust ...

Queen Doll (1972)

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror. ...

Mexico Mexico (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 ...

The Outsiders (1967)

A 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 t ...

Pedro Paramo (1967)

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… ...

The Witch (1966)

A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work. ...

Time to Die (1966)

A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of ...

The Two Elenas (1965)

Victor 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 ...

The Beloved Ones (1965)

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings. ...

A Pure Soul (1965)

Second of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). Claudia, a young aristocratic girl travels to Switzerland to recover the corpse of her brother, Juan Luis. As she flies back home to Mexico, in flashback it is re ...

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell (1965)

Cinema 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. ...

The Death of Artemio Cruz (1965)

Short student film based on the Carlos Fuentes' novel, about the last days of an elderly man. ...

The Golden Cockerel (1964)

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. ...

Breaking the Taboo (2011)

Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. ...

Speaking of Buñuel (2000)

Surrealist 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. Tho ...

A Mexican Buñuel (1997)

A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films. ...

Luis Buñuel: constructor de infiernos (1986)

The Castaway on the Street of Providence (1971)

Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home. ...

Love Love Love (1965)

Four stories: The encounter between a soldier and a widow in a cemetery. A woman arrives as a maid in an unknown city where she discovers love. Another woman is tasked with caring for her lecherous uncle on his deathbed. A young man gets into trouble with ...

The Beloved Ones (1965)

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings. ...

A Pure Soul (1965)

Second of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). Claudia, a young aristocratic girl travels to Switzerland to recover the corpse of her brother, Juan Luis. As she flies back home to Mexico, in flashback it is re ...