Caribbean Rhythms

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.

Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.

Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.

After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask him to be a couple again.

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.

A young man witnesses the horrible death of his girlfriend. He then sells his sexual services to a woman who brings him home to her dying husband.

In a neighborhood of Mexico City, inhabit different characters. From a hardened general, suffering from delusions of persecution, to a recruit; two brothers dedicated to teaching music; two treasure hunters restless, and a friendly concierge who lives with her son, the popular Gordolfo Gelatino.

Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.

Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education

Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.

A woman hires four gunmen, Trinidad, Doc, Satan and The Renegade to rob a bank, but things don't work out as planned.

Three party-animal cowboys are hired by a dying man to bring his daughter to meet him.

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Vindictive rich girl spreads rumors about her rival being a witch. Townsfolk get all agitated.

An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"

El Kid Azteca not only fights to become someone in life; he also fights for the love of Avelina, who shows no interest in him when she sees that fame has gone to his head.

When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.

Melodrama based on the homonymous novel by the Spanish writer José María Carretero Novillo (El Caballero Audaz), which tells a romantic story about a pair of lovers who endure great suffering in their attempt to be together.

In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.

Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.

Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.

When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".

A street urchin helps a severe alcoholic with recovery, and he repays the favor by mentoring the boy and putting him through school. When the boy grows up, there are romantic problems to deal with...

Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.

A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.

An honest rancher becomes a bandit after being accused of murdering his girlfriend's father

Some elderly people mortgage their house to pay the debts of their children, but they do not return the money and lose their house.

A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...

Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")

Orphaned by a father and children by a black mother, the little one is rejected by his grandmother, while the girl must deny her own mother.