Carlos Monsiváis

The Black Legend of Mexican Cinema (2016)

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built throughout the country upon crime and corruption. Ever since, Uncle Miguel was ridiculed and eventually for ...

Leonora Carrington - The Surrealist Game (2012)

Biographical account of the brilliant painter, featuring talks with Leonora Carrington during the later stage of her life in her home in Mexico. ...

Alucardos: Portrait of a Vampire (2011)

Terror, transsexualism, and an eternal cult film. What is on the mind of horror film director Juan López Moctezuma and his fans, Manolo and Lalo, who are not only obsessed with the Mexican horror film 'Alucarda', but also believe in their hearts that they ...

Tin Tan (2010)

Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawing attention to the pachuco movement through his character Tin Tan, laying the groundwork for a new form of binational and mass linguistic expression: S ...

Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan (2005)

"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Sim­ple­men­te, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the grea­test com­de­dian-​ac­tors in the his­tory of Me­xi­can Ci­ne­ma. He be­gan his film ca­reer du­ring the early years of what be­ca­me the Gol­den Age of Me­xi ...

Snake Skin (2002)

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a n ...

El porno! (1995)

A documentary on the function of pornographic film and art during and after the Mexican revolution. ...

UNAM: La fuerza de la razón (1987)

México de mis amores (1979)

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period. ...

The Devil's Visitations (1968)

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil. ...

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 ...

There Are No Thieves in This Village (1965)

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to stea ...

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 ...

Víctimas del Pecado Neoliberal (1995)

Victims of Neo-Liberal Without ...

México de mis amores (1979)

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period. ...