Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.

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 the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.

A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.

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

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation.

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.

After killing an opponent in a freak wrestling accident, El Enmascarado Negro has a midlife crisis and considers retiring from show business.

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.

A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.

Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City.

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.

Blue Demon and pals square off against the Black Hand's army of super powered midgets. Five luchadores (Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, El Medico Asesino, La Sombra Vengadora, Tinieblas plus Black Shadow) face off against a mad scientist and his army of powerful wrestling midgets.

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Lawyer and his secretary enter into a midlife marriage, deal with complications coming from their adult children and the former partners of each.

Mil Mascaras investigates a nest of fifth-columnists operating out of a carnival (!) led by a Nazi (John Carradine) attempting to resurrect the Third Reich posing as a circus clown .

Series western, sequel to Manuel Saldivar el Texano.

Escalating tensions within a frontier town besieged by outlaws.

Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of ​​promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.

The leader and villain of the movie is called Kadena, a buxom girl, who is the real deal of the gang "Hell's Angels" and whose goal is to kill the Mil Mascaras as sending to jail to his sweetheart consented. What force our hero to golpisar to bad and bad.

When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. But when her mission leaves the scientist horrifically scarred, he seeks revenge.

The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

A wrestler is arrested on suspicion of assault, but his son manages to capture the real culprits.

White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.

El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.

Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.

A jockey is pushed by his former trainer, in order to win one last race after his downfall into alcohol and depression.

Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse.

Mexican feature film

Episodic film in which a masked hero combats a trio of classic monsters.

Federal agents bust a ring that grows and processes opium poppies.

Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.

Romanticized, glamored-up neorealism, life in a squatter's-rights shantytown.

Vice cop infiltrates a jazz club to bust a heroin ring.

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants

Hurricane Ramirez is the new manager of the arena and champion of the ring. He must battle with The Prince, a ruthless criminal who will try to end with his life.

A group of friends plan to steal a companýs payroll, they succeed, but they have a fatal accident in the getaway car.

Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fisto del diablo." The others are El fistol del diablo, Juego diabólico and El ataúd infernal. All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

Monster film and mad doctor spoof.

Film-director assigned to making a teenaged-hoodlums crime drama, agonizes over the positive social message he wants his film to convey. Meanwhile, his young actors all have their own melodramas running...

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined

Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.

After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.

A young woman from the country has a son from a young man of a rich family. The rich grandfather of the man, owner of the farm, takes the child away to educate him. A few years later the young woman marries a poor farmer. She rejects the child she has with him and only understands she loves him when the rival brothers fight against each other in a duel.

Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...

Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.

Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.

Mexican feature film

A man is making a research about the importance of familiar environment in children's future. First, he interviews a prostitute, Rosa, who's in jail because of the murderer of her pimp. She was a poor child, living only with her father. He wants to send his daughter to school, but they don't find place and the father has to leave the child with the neighbour, while he's working. But the man is hit by a car and dies. Years later, Rosa finds herself alone after her adoptive mother dies. A young man from his same vicinity, wants to help her, after hearing her singing. But the truth is that he wants to turn Rosa into a prostitute and live from her money. The other story is about a boy, who goes with his father to sign up in the school.

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.

A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.

A boxer wins a championship but he is injured and forced to retire. After that he falls in love with a blind girl.

Fictional biography of a career criminal.

Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.

Ex-con presides over an underworld court trial in an abandoned warehouse to determine the fates of some accused "squealers." Flashbacks reveal the facts of the case being tried.

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"

Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.

Feud between two rival gangsters over drug-sales turf.

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

Mexican movie

Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?

A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.

Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.

Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.

A small disparate group of people are aboard a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires.

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.

This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance, the film's Director Chano Urueta ( who became an acclaimed actor in his own right), actually co-wrote the script along with one of its principal actresses, namely Esther Fernandez, as well as adding in the literary abilities of a well-known movie-producer of the era named Luis Marique.

Mexican movie

Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.

Romantic triangle on the hacienda.

City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.

Mexican movie

Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.

The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.

Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.

Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.

About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.

Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.

1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.

Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.

The Story of a Woman's Redemption

Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.

Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.

During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to a party at his home but she is snubbed by his mother and offended by a slighted pretender. Ernesto faces this man in a duel in which he is about to be killed by his rival, but Raquel protects his body and receives the bullet. She dies in Ernesto's arms.

A 1938 film.

It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor