Mexico movies

The Black Pimpernel (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | Mexico | Sweden
Actors: Michael Nyqvist | Kate del Castillo | Lumi Cavazos | Carsten Norgaard | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Patrick Bergin | Cristián Campos | Claire Ross-Brown | Lisa Werlinder
Directors: Åsa Faringer
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The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And what price did he end up paying for his total commitment? Haunted by his own demons the we experiences on close hand how a womanizer desperately searches to find love again, a task only doable, if he can fight his own past and redeem himself. After saving hundreds - maybe even thousands - he is challenged once more, this time to save his newfound love from the death penalty issued by the regime. Another impossible task and a desperate chase against time. Based on a true story about a man, that did, what all of us only dreams of.

King of California (2007)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Evan Rachel Wood | Willis Burks II | Willis Chung | Greg Davis Jr. | Gerald Emerick | Victor J. Ho | Branden Weslee Kong | Mousa Kraish | Max Lee | Paul Lieber | David J. O'Donnell | Angel Oquendo | Will Rothhaar | Wes Sabo
Directors: Mike Cahill
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KING OF CALIFORNIA stars Michael Douglas as a fresh-out-of-the-mental institution father, and Evan Rachel Wood as his emancipated teenage daughter, as they venture together on a quest for an ancient Spanish treasure buried beneath their local Costco in this in this darkly funny, exciting and surprisingly hopeful take on the modern family and the American dream.

Cronos (1993)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Mexico
Actors: Federico Luppi | Ron Perlman | Claudio Brook | Margarita Isabel | Tamara Shanath | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Mario Iván Martínez | Farnesio de Bernal | Juan Carlos Colombo | Jorge Martínez de Hoyos | Luis Rodríguez | Javier Álvarez | Gerardo Moscoso | Eugenio Lobo | Adriana Olivera
Directors: Guillermo del Toro
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An aging antique dealer, Jesus Gris, happens upon an elegant mechanized scarab. When opened, it painfully stabs whomever is holding it, but the wound brings youthful vigor and a vampire’s need for blood. The device is relentlessly pursued by a dying tycoon, Dieter de la Guardia, whose nephew Angel, reluctant to see his uncle live a moment longer, must still do the old man’s bidding. Meanwhile, Gris’s desires endanger his own granddaughter, Aurora.

Babel (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Cate Blanchett | Mohamed Akhzam | Peter Wight | Harriet Walter | Trevor Martin | Matyelok Gibbs | Georges Bousquet | Claudine Acs | André Oumansky | Michael Maloney | Dermot Crowley | Wendy Nottingham | Henry Maratray | Linda Broughton
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.

Bandidas (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Western
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Penélope Cruz | Salma Hayek | Steve Zahn | Dwight Yoakam | Denis Arndt | Audra Blaser | Sam Shepard | Ismael 'East' Carlo | Gary Cervantes | José María Negri | Lenny Zundel | Edgar Vivar | Ernesto Gómez Cruz | Filiberto Estrella | Yomo Tlazotlalli
Directors: Joachim Roenning
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In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank’s henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, María, the tough but uneducated daughter of a farmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, María and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women’s options?

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | War | Western
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Shirley MacLaine | Clint Eastwood | Manuel Fábregas | Alberto Morin | Armando Silvestre | John Kelly | Enrique Lucero | David Estuardo | Ada Carrasco | Pancho Córdova | José Chávez
Directors: Don Siegel
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Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defences. Inevitably the two become good friends but Sara has a secret..

The Mexican (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Julia Roberts | James Gandolfini | J.K. Simmons | Bob Balaban | Sherman Augustus | Michael Cerveris | Gene Hackman | Richard Coca | David Krumholtz | Castulo Guerra | Mayra Serbulo | Salvador Sánchez | Alan Ciangherotti | Melisa Romero
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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Jerry Welbach is given two ultimatums. His mob boss wants him to travel to Mexico to get a priceless antique pistol called “The Mexican” or he will suffer the consequences. The other ultimatum comes from his girlfriend Samantha, who wants him to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures that being alive, although in trouble with his girlfriend is the better alternative so he heads south of the border. Finding the pistol is easy but getting it home is a whole other matter. The pistol supposedly carries a curse - a curse Jerry is given every reason to believe, especially when Samantha is held hostage by the gay hit man Leroy to ensure the safe return of the pistol.

The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Western
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Matt Letscher | Maury Chaykin | Antonio Banderas | José María de Tavira | Anthony Hopkins | Diego Sieres | Emiliano Guerra | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Yolanda Orisaga | Paco Morayta | William Marquez | Stuart Wilson | Tony Amendola | Pedro Altamirano | Luisa Huertas | María Fernández Cruz | Mónica Fernández Cruz
Directors: Martin Campbell
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In early 19th century California the masked swordsman hero Zorro was a champion of the people against the tyranny of Spanish rule, represented by the ruthless Governor Montero. Unfortunately, on the eve of his greatest triumph, the liberation of California, Montero learns of Zorro’s secret identity as Don Diego de la Vega and attacks the rebel in his home leaving him imprisoned, his wife dead and his daughter abducted to be claimed as the child of Montero. Twenty years pass, and Montero returns to California intent on a foul plan to bring it under his total control. Upon learning of his return, Don Diego escapes from his long imprisonment and prepares for his revenge. Part of it involves the training of an orphan who helped him as a boy to become his successor. Together, the two must prepare to do battle with Montero and his American henchman to save California and reunite with Diego’s lost daughter. So once again, the enemies of freedom and justice in California must fear of the man who leaves the mark of the Z.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Naomi Watts | Don Cheadle | Jack Thompson | Brad William Henke | Nick Searcy | Michael Wincott | Mykelti Williamson | April Grace | Lily Knight | Jared Dorrance | Jenna Milton | Mariah Massa | Eileen Ryan | Derek Greene
Directors: Niels Mueller
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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother’s old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon’s broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.

Day Without a Mexican, A (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Mexico | Spain | USA
Actors: Caroline Aaron | Tony Abatemarco | Melinda Allen | Frankie J. Allison | Fernando Arau | Yareli Arizmendi | Todd Babcock | Maria Beck | Yeniffer Behrens | Arell Blanton | Brian Brophy | Cassidy Paige Bringas | Elpidia Carrillo | Maria Camporrendondo Neely | Larry Carroll
Directors: Sergio Arau
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Shocked Californians woke up one day to find out there’s no Latino left in the state as the strange eerie mist shrouded everything in this social-satiric mockumentary. Unable to reach the outside world, the life of the whole state begins to degenerate, and the economical, political and social importance of Latinos soon becomes very clear.