Mexico

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In “La perdición de los hombres”, Ripstein once again enters the world of misery, though his characters are not precisely outcasts as the fat nurse and her gigolo lover. This time he returns to his early free-style -it’s even in black and white-, as he tells the stories of normal people, who choose weird solutions to their predicaments and whose dreams occupy the same space and tone as their daily actions on the screen. Garciadiego rarely paints a “nice” male character. So here there are not only one but three machos, who play baseball and believe that man’s downfall is personified in women (in fact, the movie’s title is a verse from a popular ranchera that goes “Man’s downfall / Is the damned woman”). Garciadiego built her story a la “Pulp Fiction”, with the first act told after the resolution, so one has to wait quite a bit to know why two of the guys kill their pal, known as the “King of the Baseball Diamond”, while his widow fights for his corpse with his younger and prettier lover.Read More »

Plot: A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors take flight.Read More »

In the bucolic hills of Mexico’s Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory.Read More »

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the ‘black wind’.

The film explores the dangerous adventures of its hero, a rough figure-of-circumstance trapped by conflicting devotion to his son and his own ambitions, and the hazards of the construction work. A cataclysmic sandstorm splendidly filmed and a spectacular rail crash provide memorable set-pieces in a gradual build-up of tension.Read More »

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Isabel is in the middle of divorce proceedings. She moves into an old mansion once owned by her family. When the sister of Isabel’s co-worker Marta disappears without a trace, police chief Roberta starts investigating the case. Roberta’s son is also involved in drug trafficking, which drives the concerned detective to despair. Marta also makes her living working for a local drug gang without the police chief’s knowledge. The three women’s path to redemption is overshadowed by tragedy and violence.Read More »

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Two man commit a robbery. One is caught and the other runaway. He ends his escape in a lonely and deserted beach when he meets a beautiful woman named Erotica. They both start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other conman escape from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.
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Rodriguez’ Sundance Award-winning feature length indie debut. A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.Read More »

Old bachelor Benjamin still lives with his sister Micaela in the boredom of a small town. His only entertainment is getting together with a bunch of old men and spare time playing like children. Benjamin falls inlove with beautiful and young Natividad. First, he writes love letters for her. Then, when this strategy fails, Benjamin and the old men plan to abduct her and wait for her falling in love.Read More »

Pedro Páramo, owner of the hacienda La Media Luna in the town of Comala and of the largest area of land, has the habit of taking any woman from the region ; nevertheless, he has not been able to get the love of Susana San Juan, a woman whom he has always loved and with whom he ends up marrying when she is widowed. Susana lives obsessed by the memory of her dead husband and begins to lose her mind. With this madness, Comala begins to die too. Thus, the characters search for their whole lives and only meet after death.

The script was created by Juan Rulfo himself and director Jose BolañosRead More »