Felipe Cazals

Citizen Buelna (2013)

Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa. ...

Chicogrande (2010)

Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century. ...

The Citrillo's Turn (2006)

1903, before the Revolution… The Citrillo’s Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions –love, betr ...

Digna: Worthy to Her Last Breath (2004)

The life and work of Mexican lawyer Digna Ochoa, from her first kidnapping at the hands of the police to her murder. ...

Duck Season (2004)

Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery. ...

His Most Serene Highness (2000)

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory ...

Herod's Law (1999)

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrup ...

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest (1993)

Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while con ...

Undressed and Unruly (1991)

A beautiful woman is abandoned by her husband during their honeymoon, she stays alone in the hotel where she meets other guests and listen to their stories. ...

Love Bubbles (1991)

The Wrath of a God (1988)

On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on. ...

Dulce espiritu (1987)

Mexican TV film about spiritism. Part of the series "Cuentos de Madrugada". ...

Three of Cups (1986)

While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both. ...

Luz's Motives (1986)

Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step ...

The Humiliated (1986)

Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent. ...

Under the Shrapnel (1983)

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him. ...

The Seven Cucas (1981)

A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere. ...

The Great Victory (1981)

The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes ...

Rigo is Love (1980)

Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension. ...

La Güera Rodríguez (1978)

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

The Year of the Plague (1978)

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 ...

Las Poquianchis (1976)

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants. ...

The Heist (1976)

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the ...

Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk ...

Those Who Live Where the Soft Wind Blows (1974)

Documentary that collects various oral testimonies about the life of the Seris, a small ethnic group in the state of Sonora, Mexico. ...

Those Years (1974)

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

Aunt Isabel's Garden (1972)

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle. ...

Emiliano Zapata (1970)

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

The Olympics in Mexico (1969)

Documentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1999. ...

The Children's Hour (1969)

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to whom he reluctantly tells stories and tries to keep entertained while waiting for his fee to be paid. ...

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. ...

The Apple of Discord (1968)

A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner. ...

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. ...

Que se callen... (1965)

Crónica íntima (1979)

Mexican feature film ...

Those Years (1974)

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

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. ...