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The Young and the Damned
The Young and the Damned (1950)
, 1h20
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Stella Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alma Delia Fuentes, Ernesto Alonso, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Victorio Blanco

The film is about a group of destitute children and their misfortunes in a Mexico City slum. El Jaibo escapes juvenile jail and reunites with the street gang that he leads. El Jaibo's gang attempts to rob a blind street musician. They fail at first, but later track him down, beat him, and destroy his instruments.
La Malquerida
La Malquerida (1949)
, 1h26
Directed by Emilio Fernández
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, Columba Domínguez, Roberto Cañedo, Julio Villarreal, Carlos Riquelme

In the ranch of El Soto lives Raymunda (Dolores del Río) and her daughter, Acacia (Columba Domínguez). After she is widowed, Raymunda marries Esteban (Pedro Armendáriz). What Raymunda does not suspect is that a deep passion has arisen between Acacia and Esteban. The misfortune is that the men who approach Acacia have a tragic end, and because of this, they begin to call her "La Malquerida" ("The Unloved").
Gran Casino
Gran Casino (1947)
, 1h25
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Alfonso Bedoya, Meche Barba, José Baviera, Julio Villarreal

Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Demetrio (Julio Villarreal) are a pair of footloose cowboys in turn-of-the-century Mexico who are in prison on dubious charges. As Gerardo sings and strums on his guitar, Demetrio saws the bars of their cell, enabling them to escape. They come upon a small oil field operated by José Enrique (Francisco Jambrina), an entrepreneur from Argentina who is refusing to sell out to evil oil barons who threaten the workers. Gerardo persuades José to give work to him and his friends, and after he and Demetrio recruit more workers, they're able to rejuvenate the struggling operation. Just as their fortunes are on the rise, however, the oilman disappears and is feared murdered. Demetrio takes over the operation next, but, again, the night before the oil is to start pumping, he goes to the casino and falls for Camelia (Mercedes Barba), the same girl José was last seen with before he vanished, and he too disappears.
Enamorada
Enamorada (1946)
, 1h39
Directed by Emilio Fernández
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Miguel Inclán, José Torvay, Guillermo Calles, Arturo Soto Rangel

The revolutionary Jose Juan Reyes (Pedro Armendáriz) take the town of Cholula, Puebla, and take the money of the rich men of the zone for the Mexican Revolution. Jose Juan fell in love with the Señorita Beatriz Peñafiel (María Félix), the explosive daughter of the richest man of the zone.
Boom in the Moon
Boom in the Moon (1946)
, 1h30
Directed by Jaime Salvador
Origin Mexique
Genres Science fiction, War, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Buster Keaton, Ángel Garasa, José Torvay

Keaton plays an American soldier during World War II who escapes from an airplane crash over the Pacific Ocean. He is adrift for a long period and his face becomes covered in a scraggly beard. He arrives on a beach, believing he has landed in Japan, but he is actually in Mexico. He wanders into a fishing village and is promptly arrested under the mistaken belief that he is a wanted serial killer who marries and murders women (also known as a "bluebeard"). Keaton and another prisoner (Angel Garasa) are put in the custody of an aeronautics scientist who is planning to launch a manned rocket into outer space. The two prisoners, along with the scientist's assistant (Virginia Seret) are blasted into space, but their craft lands in an isolated portion of Mexico instead. They mistake a beekeeper wearing protective headgear as an alien, while the beekeeper believes the trio (who are wearing wizard robes) are aliens. The prisoners and the scientist's assistant are apprehended by the local police, and the matter is quickly settled. Keaton and his cellmate receive pardons and are free to go on their way.
Light After Darkness
Light After Darkness (2012)
, 2h
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Nathalia Acevedo

The film deals with a peculiar narrative, the life of John (Adolfo Jimenez Castro). A wealthy householder who, with his wife Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) and their two young sons Eleazar (Eleazar Reygadas) and Ruth (Ruth Reygadas), decide to change the life of the city for the plain and simple country life. Starting again with an ostentatious house (a comparison of the few neighbors who live there) begin to enjoy the momentary taste of rural life seems to evoke. Thus, the gradient taste that prevailed at the beginning, begins to crumble for marriage. The children, on the other hand, nothing cumbersome and enjoy perfect life offered by this bleak place. The character of John begins to have contact with the people who live in the same direction. Seven (Willebaldo Torres), a man who usually do everything in their power to survive leads him to meet Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are taken into a ramshackle cabin in the woods. The film takes us into the hands of the most intimate problems that each of the people shrinks, not to feed a superficial argument, but each character is interfered in the problems affecting the daily life of a rural culture. Where the world is cruel and life is harder.
After Lucia
After Lucia (2012)
, 1h43
Directed by Michel Franco
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about school violence
Actors Toma Brun, José María Torre, Nailea Norvind

Roberto (Hernán Mendoza) is depressed after his wife Lucía dies in a road accident and decides to leave Puerto Vallarta and live in Mexico City with his 17-year-old daughter, Alejandra (Tessa Ía González Norvind). Settling into her new school, Alejandra goes to a party one night with her classmates. At the party, she has sex with José, who films the encounter on his phone. The next day the footage has been circulated around the school, with Alejandra getting text messages calling her a slut. As a result, she becomes the target of bullying from her peers.
Miss Bala
Miss Bala (2011)
, 1h53
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Gangster films
Actors Miguel Couturier, Stephanie Sigman, James Russo

23-year-old Laura Guerrero (Sigman) lives with her father Ramón (Javier Zaragoza) and little brother Arturo (Juan Carlos Galván). Laura and her friend Suzu (Lakshmi Picazo) both enter the competition for the Miss Baja beauty pageant. They go to the Millennium Night Club, where Suzu meets her boyfriend Javi (Hugo Márquez). However, when Laura goes into the bathroom, she witnesses members of the La Estrella gang causing chaos by shooting randomly into the club. Frantic, she tries to search for Suzu, and as a result fails to show up for the early rehearsal for the pageant, and is ejected from the competition.
Borderland
Borderland (2007)
, 1h45
Origin Mexique
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Brian Presley, Rider Strong, Damián Alcázar, Sean Astin, Martha Higareda, Mircea Monroe

The action begins with Mexico City policemen banging on the door of what seems to be an abandoned house. Ulises (Damian Alcazar) and his partner enter the house and find gruesome remnants of animal sacrifices and human remains. The two are ambushed by the occupants and Ulises is forced to watch them torture and mutilate his partner until he is decapitated. Ulises is shot in the leg and is allowed to live to warn other law enforcement officials to stay out of their way.
Los bastardos
Los bastardos (2008)
, 1h30
Directed by Amat Escalante
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure

A Los Angeles, comme chaque matin, Fausto et Jesus, deux travailleurs mexicains clandestins, attendent au coin d'un terminal de bus dans l'espoir d'être embauchés. Les tâches sont ingrates et très mal payées, mais la nécessité de gagner un peu d'argent leur met une pression intense. Aujourd'hui, ils ont trouvé un travail beaucoup mieux payé. Aujourd'hui, leur outil de travail est un fusil à canon scié.
The Zone
The Zone (2007)
, 1h37
Directed by Rodrigo Plá
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Maribel Verdú, Daniel Tovar, Carlos Bardem, Alan Chávez, Marina de Tavira

A group of disadvantaged teenagers break into a gated community that is heavily under surveillance.
The Desert Within
The Desert Within (2008)
, 1h52
Directed by Rodrigo Plá
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Diego Cataño, Ximena Ayala, Dolores Heredia, Alan Chávez

The film is set against the backdrop of Mexico's Cristero War, which took place between 1926 and 1929, when the Mexican government banned Catholicism and persecuted its followers. Clergy are separated from their congregations and worship is forbidden.
Silent Light
Silent Light (2007)
, 2h22
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion

Silent Light begins with a long tracking shot of the sun rising over a beautiful plain. The protagonist Johan, his wife Esther, and their children sit silently saying grace, after which each member of Johan's family departs from their home except for him. Once he is alone, he stops the clock on the wall and breaks down crying. Johan goes to work and discusses with a colleague that he is having an affair with a single woman by the name of Marianne; he makes it clear that his wife knows about the affair. Johan leaves work to meet Marianne in a field, and they begin to kiss. In the next scene, Johan's children are bathing and playing along a riverbank while he and his wife watch. They call one of their children over to bathe her, and as they are doing so, Esther begins to cry.