Lina Montes
2021 - 1984
El principio
Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
Lucha Villa, Narciso Busquets
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
El principio
El cumpleaños del perro
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Diana Bracho
Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.
The Birthday of the Dog
Mexicanos al grito de guerra
Ismael Rodríguez, Álvaro Gálvez y Fuentes
Pedro Infante, Lina Montes
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
El Infierno de Todos tan Temido
Sergio Olhovich
Manuel Ojeda, Diana Bracho
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
Everyone's Hell so Feared
La casta divina
Julián Pastor
Ignacio López Tarso, Ana Luisa Peluffo
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
La casta divina
Longitud de guerra
Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
Bruno Rey, Narciso Busquets
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Longitud de guerra
La venida del rey Olmos
Julián Pastor
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Ana Luisa Peluffo
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
La venida del rey Olmos
