Max Kerlow

Ziuta Travesías (2024)

Ziuta, Polish, Jewish and survivor of the Second World War, was an extraordinary woman who aroused special devotion. Her political commitment and participation in supporting the clandestine struggle, beyond being a virtue, were a direct and almost biologic ...

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo (2017)

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work. ...

Nora's Will (2008)

Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 da ...

Love, Pain and Vice Versa (2008)

Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destined to be with her. She reports a rape to the police, describing the man of h ...

El Viaje de la Nonna (2008)

A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico! ...

My Mexican Shivah (2007)

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed. ...

Sea of Dreams (2006)

On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place where people carry strong beliefs that can fulfill the heart's deepest desires. A beautiful ... ...

A Wonderful World (2006)

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico. ...

La última noche (2005)

This film is different from the previous ones; its themes are more mature, and the characters and situations are different. The protagonist is still Mariana Ávila, who now has to face adulthood and marriage. ...

Espíritu deportivo (2004)

Remembrance (2003)

The documentary film Remembrance is an outline of the past century taking as a motif the life of Luis Frank, a Lithuanian emigrant. It is a journey through a time wich the world was made by war, that of wich we have so many times heard of and by wich we li ...

Lucía, Lucía (2003)

Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as s ...

I Murder Seriously (2002)

A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been handed a most unusual case -- a number of local prostitutes have been murdered, and it's up to Martinez t ...

Moctezuma's Revenge (2002)

Mexican feature film ...

Compassionate Sex (2000)

Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lo ...

Luces de la noche (1998)

On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back. ...

If I Never See You Again (1997)

Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which fina ...

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. ...

Sex Education In Brief Lessons (1997)

Alejandra and Ana are college friends, both are virgin and hope to find the love of their life soon. Ana meets Miguel, but they agree to just be friends. Alejandra meets Esteban, a well known womanizer. ...

Viva San Isidro! (1995)

Bodas Negras (1994)

Short produced by TV Azteca, starring José Alonso, Leonor Bonilla and Sergio Bonilla ...

El tesoro de Clotilde (1994)

Clotilde dies, and her god-daughter has promised to carry out a final wish for her. Two gangs of thieves and the cops interfere with her fulfilling the promise. ...

The Queen of the Night (1994)

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ...

Perfume, efecto inmediato (1994)

A cosmetologist invents a perfume that helps her sister seduce her boss. When her boss realizes the power of the perfume he will try to steal the formula. ...

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 ...

Cómodas mensualidades (1992)

Young married guy is overwhelmed by the expenses involved with starting a family. ...

Juegos nocturnos (1992)

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 ...

Bandidos (1991)

In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival. ...

Dentro de la noche (1991)

Las buenas costumbres (1990)

Mexican feature film ...

El cielo subterraneo (1988)

Mexican feature film ...

Pasa en las mejores familias (1987)

Mexican feature film ...

Macho y hembras (1987)

Mexican feature film ...

What Do You Think? (1986)

A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression ...

Frida Still Life (1986)

This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial ...

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. ...

Murieron a la mitad del rio (1986)

Va de Nuez (1986)

Cuentos de Principes y Princesas (1981)

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 ...

En Defensa Propia (1978)

The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up. ...

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. ...

The Bees (1978)

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent specie ...

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. ...

The Diabolical (1977)

Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the satanic mark on her body. He was caught and was prepared for hanging. At moment before hanging Dave uses his ...

La casta divina (1977)

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the lan ...

Brothers of the Wind (1977)

El viaje (1977)

After the death of his mother, a man agrees to travel to Europe as a tourist guide falls in love with the head of the agency. ...

The Aztec Karate Fighter (1976)

Potter who makes fake pre-Colombian statues gets mixed up with thieves and treasure-hunters at an Aztec art museum. ...

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 ...

Celestina (1976)

An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas. ...

Foxtrot (1976)

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II. ...

El perro y la calentura (1976)

Mexican feature film ...

Letters from Marusia (1975)

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible ...

The Coming of the King Olmos (1975)

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam? ...

Those Years (1974)

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

The Prophet Mimi (1973)

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer. ...

I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973)

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana. ...

The Mansion of Madness (1973)

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run. ...

Aunt Isabel's Garden (1972)

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

Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972)

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution. ...

The Apple of Discord (1968)

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