Tag: mexico
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The Border
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman’s baby is put up for sale on the black market.
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Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire
A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.
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Under the Volcano
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul’s self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced…
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Eastbound & Down
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
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Barrio Salvaje
A group of young drug dealers commit crimes in a sleazy strip club.
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Esta noche cena Pancho
Four friends gather to organize a wild and sleazy bachelor party.
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¡Three Amigos!
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
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Commando Squad
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.
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Cinco nacos asaltan Las Vegas
Five friends decide to go to Las Vegas to get money and one of them thinks of robbing a casino.
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El rey de los taxistas
Lorena wife of the taxi driver Juan Camaney , annoyed by his amorous adventures , accepts work as a photographer’s model . John is involved in crimes actually committed two guys who take their taxi when he is not . His wife and two friends help him go free but seeing that follows adventurer, marries…
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El Chácharas
These are the funny, sexy misadventures of a lying, womanizing, conmen named “El Chácharas” and his twin brother Ulysses.
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El Mofles en Acapulco
Sleazy comedic character “El Mofles” goes to Acapulco where he gets unknowingly involved with a robbery.
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Atrapados en la coca
A man with economic problems get’s involved with the mafia, but when he is asked to commit murder he refuses, which gets him in trouble with a drug lord, this brings nothing but problems to his son, who must now take control of the situation.
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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, the writer immerses himself in the seamier side of a Mexican beach resort, but soon finds himself involved in a ‘body organ for profit’ operation. Drugged, he…
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Mr. Trump, Pardon the Interruption
An analysis of the impact on the United States Latino community of immigration policies promoted by President Donald Trump.
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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 bar-owner’s son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the…