Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession.

A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.

Poor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.

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?

A man becomes a thief out of desperation. If his identity becomes known, his neighbors might lynch him. The only friendly face in town is the local priest.

A dumb homeless man finds a 10,000 peso bill, and with it he pretends to buy a child of his own. Unfortunately everyone around him tries to steal it, ultimately resulting in tragedy.

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.

A man recently estranged from his wife is in charge of setting a new rail line across the desert in difficult conditions. Things are further complicated when his 'sheltered' son arrives wanting to reconnect.

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

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.

A humble peasant is mistaken by a federal government inspector in a small town.

It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.

In 1886 the residents of a town in Chihuahua reject the abuses of the authorities and the army.

The controversial, sexy, surreal story of a messenger and his journey and encounters with many historical events and people like Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!).

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón".

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.

The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

Candelario is a wanderer who arrives to Don Lázaro's hacienda. He soon proves to be a good worker full of ideas and gives new life to the decadent hacienda. He also attract the attention of Don Lázaro's wife Chabela.

A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.

Virginia besucht eine Klasse an der Filmschule und hat sich für ihr Soloprojekt für die Klasse entschieden. Sie wird sich selbst und ihren Ex-Mann Marcelo heimlich mit einer versteckten Kamera filmen, während die beiden Liebe machen.

Nachdem der Mann, den sie bewundert, ihre Schwester geheiratet hat, entwickelt eine junge Mexikanerin eine Leidenschaft fürs Kochen und entdeckt, dass sie ihre Gefühle durch das Essen, das sie zubereitet, übertragen kann.