60's Mexican Movies To Watch

El violetero has "Tintan" the main actor's nickname, as an Indian door to door flower seller in colonial Mexico's neighborhood of Xochimilco. One day he is requested by one of his customers to fix their garden and this becomes a recurring job. His new boss, a well educated woman sets to prove her younger sister wrong about their position in life by polishing the new gardener's education and manners. After some time they even go into business together with a flower shop. Perhaps a romance blossoms.

Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens. Animas has a loyal wife, but cheats on her and gambles away every cent they raise. Chances arise for Animas to turn over a new leaf and even hope realistically for the honor of mayordomio. But will Animas behave responsibly enough to take advantage of these opportunities?

Reynaldo and Martín Del Hierro are witnesses of the murder of their father by Pascual Velazco, as they grow up they're poisoned by the desire of vengeance by their mother, but once they get it it'll change their lifes forever.

An illiterate Indian (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him are irrevocably destroyed as the company takes over the land by crooked means. Based on the novel by B.Traven.

Die Gäste einer Dinnerparty der Oberschicht sehen sich außerstande zu gehen.

The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows his boss,El Caudillo has chosen another candidate. Several political moves are done between the parties, leading to a thunderous climax.

An irreverent essay, unified only by the author's unique voice, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.

A worker of the Mexican Indigenist Institute tries to help the Tarahumara Indians to protect and keep their lands, but he must face corrupt landowners and politicians.

Three stories with women as protagonists. Postmodern tales of desire, lust, death and shame. First attempts of Mexican cinema to left behind the grandiloquent nationalistic "golden epoch".

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.

After serving his conviction, a former gunman returns to his town planning to live a quiet life, however, the sons of a man he killed have other plans.

A rich, aristocratic engaged couple (Julissa, Enrique Alvarez Felix) abandons a dinner party to enjoy a night on the town with an urban gang known as Los Caifanes.

Highly symbolic Mexican drama: Son searches for father during Mexican Revolution chaos. Archetypal figures appear amid violence. Contrasts son's quest with father's earthy lifestyle.

During the Mexican Revolution, Lázara accompanies her conscripted husband to war. After becoming a widow, she joins a rebel group, gaining new skills and experiences. Amidst the turmoil, she yearns for a tranquil life.

A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from their hacienda and join the Mexican Revolution.

A documentary on the student movement in Mexico, 1968, made by film students

Laura Montaño, a corrupt landowner who exerts control over a Mexican zone, wants to put an end to her daughter Sara's romance with Julián Moncada, a young farmer. She sends for the legendary gunfighter Maclovio Castro, better known as "One-Hand Maclovio", to kill Julián. However, upon his arrival the mercenary is haunted by guilty memories of his past in the region, he is followed by a man seeking revenge, and the tense power struggle in town obstructs his mission.

Ein geheimnisvoller, ganz in Schwarz gekleideter Revolverheld durchstreift eine mystische Westernlandschaft und trifft dabei auf mehrere seltsame Charaktere.

Fando und seine teilweise gelähmte Geliebte Lis suchen nach der mythischen Stadt Tar. Basierend auf Jodorowskys Erinnerungen an ein Theaterstück des Surrealisten Fernando Arrabal.