Movies: Gustavo Alatriste

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave....

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly des...

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him....

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Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."...

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, howe...

Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't work, they hatch a kidnapping scheme, and the movie shifts its focus to the rich people who have been...

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A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, p...

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s....

Mexican feature film...

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

Mexican feature film...

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history....

Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties....

Mexican feature film...