Ariel Award - Best Mexican Film

In rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel (barraca), the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of "another" working the land that once belonged to one of them.

During the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.

The discovery of a perfect pearl forever changes the lives of a poor Mexican fisherman and his family.

Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.

A strict patriarch exercises almost absolute control over his family and uses it to impose his vision of order and conservative family values. However, the budding sexuality of some of his children causes the union to unravel.

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

A fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.

Marta (Dolores del Río) es una mujer que vive obsesionada, ya que su madre y su hermano murieron de esquizofrenia. Temerosa de que la enfermedad sea congénita, sobreprotege hasta el extremo a su único hijo (Alejandro Ciangherotti Jr.). Debido a su obsesión, Marta no se da cuenta que la única afectada psicológicamente en su familia es ella.

Desperate for improving his quality of life, a young failed door-to-door salesman ends up accepting a dubious job from a mysterious old friend.

The classic story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.

Portrait of the lives of marginalized children in Mexico City, through three juvenile criminals. One killed his stepfather to protect his mother, another blinded his guardian to ward off his abuses, and a third had to steal in order to eat.

A white woman enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian. The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be insurmountable, resulting in tragedy.

Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.

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.

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.

The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.

A man returns from Paris to find his home of Chihuahua Mexico occupied by Francisco Villa's revolutionary troops.

Two waitresses, Laura and Eva, enter romantic relationships with movie distributor Adrian and his friend Luis.

Martin lives in a mountain hut with his wife, La Choca, and his son, little Martin, and Flor, Choca's sister. They live through hardship to make ends meet, and Martin does some smuggling. During his abscence, three men arrive, accuse him of having betrayed them, and set a trap to capture him. When he arrives, all hell breaks loose, and out of the carnage only La Choca survives.

It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.

When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.

A woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend (Rojo). This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. One day, the mother gets sick and falls into a coma. Her son arrives but she is unconscious. He has a brief but passionate affair with her mother's friend and then disappears, as quickly as he came back from the sea.

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón".