Arturo Ripstein

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.

The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Wealthy European aristocrat Liviu (Peter O'Toole) and his wife, Julia (Charlotte Rampling) escape the harsh reality of WWII by vacationing on a tropical island. Due to unforeseen circumstances involving their ship, they end up stranded on the island along with their servants, Eusebio (Jorge Luke) and Larsen (Max Von Sydow). They run around lawlessly and slowly run out of food. Soon the servants revolt and the wealthy couple discover that they can't escape the war. (allmovie.com)

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. (imdb)

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. (imdb)

The heroine is Emilia, a tormented housewife trapped in a middle-class life, overwhelmed by mediocrity, and exhausted by motherhood. The same day that her lover leaves her, her credit card is blocked, and Emilia takes the decision she has long contemplated, suicide. Embracing melodrama, Reasons of the Heart features black-and-white cinematography and film-noir aesthetics. (iksv.org)

A very poor and handicaped man, lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. He works announcing things along the town ("The priest lost his cow, if someone sees it ..."). He is very interested in the cock fightigs. One day a man gives him a looser cock, thinking to give him something to eat, but instead he takes care of the animal and it becomes a winner cock. (imdb)

This 1974 Mexican film deals with the suffering of one family of conversos who are secretly practicing Judaism and are betrayed to the Inquisition by a family member. (allmovie.com)

Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge. (imdb)

The story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel, the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. (Written by Maximiliano Maza (imdb)

Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home. (imdb)

After spending 18 years in prison for the death of Raúl Trueba, Juan Sáyago returns to his village looking to spend the rest of his quiet days by Mariana Sampedro, his former love. However, the children of Trueba want to avenge the death of his father. (filmaffinity.com)

Based on the Greek tragedy MEDEA, this is a present day Mexican version, set in the seediest possible milieu of Mexico City. A woman abandoned by her husband, is thrown out of her apartment by her landlord - who is also her husband's new father-in-law. She is also about to lose custody of her two children to her husband, a low-life, second-rate boxer and opportunist. With the help of her godmother, she plans to take revenge on her husband. (imdb)

Two men jump out from behind some cacti and beat a man over the head with a rock. They then take the body to the dead man's hut, and sit with his body for the night while they talk, complain and dance. Later at the police station, two women come to claim the body--a bitter, venomous wife and a younger prettier women. They fight and scrap until one of them get the responsibility for the body. Later we find out why the self-titled "King of Baseball" was killed. (imdb)

At dawn, two middle-aged prostitutes go back to their hovels. They are not tired of working. They are tired of not doing it. One has problems with a teenage daughter and a transvestite husband. The other has to cope with loneliness. But tonight they are going to celebrate the victory in the ring of two dwarves fighters. At the hotel, to rob the men, they drugged them with eye drops. But they are so frightened and confused that they commit all kinds of errors. (Filmaffinity)

A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.

Documentary which shows life inside the Palace of Lecumberri, a prison in Mexico City. (Wikipedia)

Beatriz and the Old Man have been together for decades. A retired homeopathic pharmacist, the Old Man now divides his time between their Mexico City home where he shuffles around in his housecoat, raging against Beatriz, and paying secret visits to his mistress. Beatriz, when not bearing the brunt of the Old Man's tirades, sneaks out to take tango lessons - and to proposition her younger dance partner. With their children having grown up and abandoned them long ago, the only person left to witne

Matea is an orphan who assists the priest, Father Feliciano, in his parish. The village doctor tries to seduce her, but fails and proceeds to defame her into believing that Matea maintains relations with the priest (IMDB).

“La Nueva Jerusalem” is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They’re waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they’ve abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in “La Nueva Jerusalem”.

Two stories set in Río de Janeiro: The first (HO) is about a man who picks up a newlywed couple on the highway to Río; their car is wrecked and the man offers to deliver the bride to their honeymoon bungalow. Everything goes wrong when the man's wife catches him with the bride in his car. The second story (Divertimento) is about a woman who wants to kill her lover's wife, not knowing that her lover and his wife plan to stage the crime to blackmail her. (imdb)