Abel Woolrich
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis:
Locus Natus: Mexico
Et ut: Abel Woldrich
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother...
release : 1976.02.04popularis : 1.872
Don de Dios
Tepito is a neighborhood of Mexico City, where the dreams of many destitute people become real. But Tepito is also run by organized crime and corrupt...
release : 2005.10.28popularis : 2.06
Solo
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...
release : 1996.08.23popularis : 9.192
National Mechanics
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...
release : 1972.12.28popularis : 0.683
The Heart of the Night
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange,...
release : 1984.03.15popularis : 1.65
Midaq Alley
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the...
release : 1995.05.05popularis : 6.98
New World
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous...
release : 1978.08.10popularis : 1.427
Chin-Chin el Teporocho
Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle,...
release : 1976.08.15popularis : 1.426
Gertrudis Bocanegra
Biopic about a woman who played a courageous role in the resistance against French occupation of Mexico in the early 1800s.
release : 1992.09.24popularis : 0.739
Cuartelazo
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill...
release : 1977.05.04popularis : 1.593
The Harvest
A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in production. Given a very short time allotment,...
release : 1993.11.05popularis : 3.004
Apocalypto
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to...
release : 2006.12.07popularis : 149.72
Dama de Noche
Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz desolate without knowing what to do with the...
release : 1993.05.18popularis : 0.759
In the Time of the Butterflies
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are...
release : 2001.10.21popularis : 4.97
The Edge of the Earth
In a small town where nothing ever happens, the inhabitants learn about a place at the edge of the earth where money and women are abundant. When...
release : 1995.05.31popularis : 0.801
His Most Serene Highness
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...
release : 2000.08.17popularis : 0.833
El gavilán de la sierra
Musician Rosendo Nevárez learns of his brother Gabriel’s death in a remote spot in the Durango mountains and decides to return to his...
release : 2002.03.01popularis : 0.862
Vampires: Los Muertos
Tough-as-nails vampire hunter Derek Bliss is on the hunt for "suckers" in the heart of Mexico when he receives a new assignment from a mysterious...
release : 2002.09.23popularis : 9.355
Ave María
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
release : 1999.11.20popularis : 1.845
Before Night Falls
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was...
release : 2000.09.03popularis : 20.629
Die At Night
Searching for answers, Alex finds his father, who he thought was gone forever.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.356
Ravenous
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After...
release : 1999.03.16popularis : 30.229
The Mask of Zorro
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having...
release : 1998.07.16popularis : 27.825
The Castaways of Liguria
A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea....
release : 1985.08.15popularis : 0.698
Broken Flag
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic...
release : 1979.06.21popularis : 0.735
La mesa servida
Carlos has an empty belly and tries to dominate nature by obeying it. The only two pigs in his village are seductive meat. He already has the table...
release : 2004.05.29popularis : 0.593
El agujero negro del sol
Dr. Ulpiano, a psychologist and doctor of letters, lives immersed in a work routine that over the years has healed an aspect of fatigue on his face....
release : 2002.03.08popularis : 0.297
The Realm of Fortune
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the...
release : 1986.11.28popularis : 2.256
Death and the Compass
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series...
release : 1992.08.05popularis : 5.34
Paper Flowers
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot...
release : 1978.02.01popularis : 0.808
Wild Women
Women escape from prison to search for a treasure whose location has been revealed to them by a dying old woman.
release : 1984.08.23popularis : 0.586
Everyone's Hell so Feared
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise...
release : 1981.09.09popularis : 1.755