Farnesio de Bernal

Doctor Funes Formula (2013)

Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doctor Moebius, who also wants to regain his youth. Martin goes to visit old Funes, but instead finds twelve ...

2033 (2009)

In 2033, Mexico City is a hot, mechanical and chaotic megacity ruled by the military and a tyrannical government. It is an oppressed society with its religious faith and liberty of expression stolen. Pablo, the main character, is a young finantial yuppie t ...

Más allá del muro (2009)

A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of the house, invade it secretly searching for a new place to stay. In spite of their differences in age and per ...

Propiedad Ajena (2007)

The discovery of a diary, written in 1848 in Texas, Mexican territory, triggers Miranda Sámano's decision to travel, illegally to that land, in search of her roots and her origin and to unravel the mysteries written by Amalia Sámano in that diary. The lo ...

Clasificados (2007)

El malogrado amor de Sebastián (2006)

Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait. ...

Espíritu deportivo (2004)

Medalla al Empeño (2004)

A pawnbroker clerk meets a very peculiar old man, who brings an Olympic medal to the store to get some money and, at the same time, has a great and exciting story to tell. ...

In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops. ...

Pilgrim (2000)

A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail. ...

Las delicias del poder (1999)

A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers. ...

A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon (1997)

An elderly couple spends together the afternoon in their living room. Suddenly she breaks the silence. ...

Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997)

The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist. ...

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, ...

Solo (1996)

An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in the ...

Enemies (1996)

Doble indemnización (1996)

When a man dies, he leaves a life insurance policy in his daughters' names, and his sons-in-law hatch a plan to collect it twice. ...

Two Crimes (1995)

After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his. ...

Cronos (1993)

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device t ...

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all ...

Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian trib ...

One Man’s War (1991)

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since ...

Benjamín's Wife (1991)

Benjamin is an old bachelor who lives with his sister. One day he falls in love with the young Natividad. Seeing that the love letter strategy doesn't work with the girl, Benjamín decides to kidnap her. ...

Deceitful Appearances (1983)

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside. ...

'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar! (1981)

Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely. ...

La leyenda de Rodrígo (1981)

Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose. ...

Eagle's Wing (1979)

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way. ...

Maria of My Heart (1979)

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels ...

Naufragio (1978)

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. ...

Free Love (1978)

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship. ...

The Children of Sanchez (1978)

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to pr ...

La Güera Rodríguez (1978)

In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity. ...

Pubertinaje (1978)

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy t ...

Three Stories of Love (1978)

Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism. ...

Matinée (1977)

Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the ro ...

Brothers of the Wind (1977)

The Domino Principle (1977)

Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment. ...

Maten al León (1977)

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion). ...

The House in the South (1976)

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century. ...

Coronation (1976)

The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house. ...

El perro y la calentura (1976)

Mexican feature film ...

Antonio and the Mayor (1975)

Mr. Cervantes is a teacher sent to a rural town and encounters Antonio, an exceptional student. He encourages the gifted boy who decides to take on the village mayor over a very special bicycle that he won't let anyone use. ...

Las Fuerzas Vivas (1975)

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought. ...

A Home of Our Own (1975)

The story of Father William Wasson, who founded and operated a home for abandoned and orphaned children in Mexico. ...

El valle de los miserables (1975)

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, ...

The Dogs of God (1974)

After a near-drowning, Laura moves through four social worlds under different names, obsessed with God's infinite mercy and provoking sin to test forgiveness. ...

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo. ...

The Holy Inquisition (1974)

A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he report ...

Those Years (1974)

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

The Master of Ballantrae (1974)

Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate. ...

Magdalena’s True Vocation (1972)

Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generat ...

Emiliano Zapata (1970)

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution. ...

A Trap for a Corpse (1969)

Following their mother's passing, two brothers plot to claim the inheritance left in their stepfather's care, but life has a way of turning things around. ...

Patsy My Love (1969)

Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus ...

Familiarities (1969)

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival. ...

Por mis pistolas (1968)

Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way i ...

Blue Demon: Destructor of Spies (1968)

Blue Demon returns in one of his best adventures like Agent Zero, who this time is facing a criminal organization that attempts to poison the world with a deadly gas (whose formula is unknown). This time, Zero (Blue Demon) is the only one qualified to inve ...

Birds of Prey (1968)

1938, a Central America country. A Frenchman who goes by the name "Le Rital" is hired to take out the local dictator. Young Chico is assigned as his right-hand man, whom he impresses. Will a friendship form between them? ...

Your Excellency (1967)

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état i ...

Forbidden Homework (1992)

A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival. ...

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all ...