Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Esta es la historia de dos mercenarios que crecieron juntos, como hermanos, y de su celosa relacion con la imponente Casilda. Al terminar la Guerra de la Reforma, Pedro y Damian emprenden un camino que los conduce a jugar, robar y matar. Las cartas con que juegan parecen determinar su destino.
The story of two mercenaries, raised as brothers, and their jealous relationship with the stunningly beautiful Casilda. At the end of the Reform War, Pedro...
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The road adventures of a group of elderly musicians who escape from a Mexican nursing home and play in numerous clubs on the way to Tijuana, where their leader hopes to fulfill his friend's dying wish.
Las aventuras de un quinteto de ancianos que se escapa de una clínica en México y toca en varios clubes nocturnos camino de Tijuana para cumplir el deseo de una amiga que acaba de morir.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Tadeo is a street magician with many secrets. Once a famous photographer, he now hangs out with a blind vagabond who acts as his performance assistant. He meets a young neighbor who inadvertently reminds him of what he abandoned.
Tadeo es un desempleado que decide convertirse en mago y así recorre los barrios más decadentes de la ciudad para subsistir. Su vida se encuentra si un aliciente, hasta que aparece una joven vecina que lo hace recordar...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. When the priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin, he finds himself torn between the devine and the carnal, the righteous...
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
On the eve of a special day, the family bonds faced with a shared sentiment of a regretted absence, appear fragile. Uncle Manuel, a remarkable man, is determined to help his adolescent nephews and support his brother-in-law, an unemployed unionist. Mother's home is now a place where the family, amid lost dreams, is in danger of disintegration--IMDb.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's children.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound,. color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"In December 2005 Toño Zuniga was picked up off the street in Mexico City, Mexico, and sentenced to 20 years for a murder he knew nothing about. A friend of Toño's contacted two young lawyers, Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete, who gained prominence in Mexico when they helped bring about the release of another innocent man from prison. Looking into Toño's case, Roberto and Layda managed to get a retrial--on camera--and enlisted the help of...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Joaquina has never married, but she makes up for it by going to the movies, where she lets her imagination run away with her. When her young nephew comes for a visit, she introduces him to her fantasy world, in which the actors easily become the characters they play, and vice versa. But, she takes her fantasies too far when she decides to do something about the marauding bandits that plague her small town. She writes to legendary western hero Tom...
9) Santitos
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After the widowed Esperanza loses her daughter to a rare virus, she searches her faith for an explanation. When St. Jude appears to her and tells her that her daughter is still alive, Esperanza becomes convinced her daughter was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave. Becoming a prostitute, she sets out to find her daughter in Tijuana.
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Filmada de 1995 a 1997 en La Habana, Nueva York, Los Ángeles, Morelia y en México D.F., narra la historia de Yuliet, una adolescente cubana, y Fabiola Quiroz, una modelo mexicana, quienes, con humor y franqueza, rodeadas de peculiaries personajes secundarios, nos demuestran que la ausencia de sus padres, las carencias y las adversidades las hicieron má s fuertes."--http://www.filmaffinity.com
A look at the lives and thoughts of some young people...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Un pintor a punto de quedar ciego se encuentra de manera fortuita con una joven en un burdel en el desierto mexicano. Dos vidas distantes pero paralelas se entretejen con sorprendentes vueltas del destino.
Homero is a painter. Mei is a young girl who has been abandoned by her mother at a brothel. Homero has a difficult time accepting the fact that he is going blind from an inherited condition. He visits his father, who is blind from the same condition,...
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (211 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Cuentos de hadas para dormir cocodrilos: A story of magical realism featuring superstition, ambition, and treason. A man who suffers from insomnia is forced to confront a dark and mysterious past when he heeds a call from his brother. Upon traveling to his hometown, he finds out that both his brother and his father died years ago and that his family is under a menacing curse.
Otilia Rauda: Scandalous and with an intense storyline. A woman and her...
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The lives of a young couple are turned upside down when a loose social connection suddenly ties them to a major political assassination.
Una joven pareja se ve arrastrada en medio de un complot político en donde altos funcionarios del gobierno y la misma policía están involucrados.
14) Lucia, Lucia
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"A woman's search for her missing husband ignites a dangerous and unexpectedly romantic adventure. It's a wild ride through the mysterious territory of identity, as Lucia finds herself in a triagle of love and friendship with a reawakened passion for life that's different from anything she ever imagined"--Container back cover.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"...El Marlboro acaba de salir de la cárcel y busca a su hermano el Cucú, causante quizás de su encierro. Durante 24 horas, tendrán tiempo de reencontrarse y perdonarse, pero también de cometer un asalto que los llevará a mezclarse con personajes de otros ámbitos sociales"--Container.
Marlboro is out of jail and looking for his brother, who perhaps was the reason for his imprisonment. Over the next 24 hours, they will reunite, forgive one...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Arturo Fabré es un estudioso de la vida de los insectos y está casado con una actriz rusa que trabaja en el teatro en México. Después de ocho años de matrimonio, el hallazgo de una extraña foto de su mujer desnuda y una carta escrita en ruso, desencadena celos enfermizos y una obsesión desmedida por conocer el pasado de su esposa, que lo conducen a un trágico final." --Container.
Arturo Fabre, married for eight years to a Russian actress...
17) Vidas errantes
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An old man travels to work camps in Mexico to show old Mexican films.
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
En un pobre circo en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, Alma, una joven de 13 años, se gana la vida como trapecista y escupefuegos. Cuando los demás cirqueros descubren que Alma está embarazada, la expulsan del circo, y Alma vive en la calle.
A 13-year-old circus performer in Mexico City is cast out to the streets after she becomes pregnant.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Las mujeres de una próspera familia ocultan secretos insospechados que van desde los enredos amorosos hasta el asesinato por peidad o por codicia. La historia de estas excéntricas mujeres combina el amor, los brebajes, el humor negro y la muerte. Mas vale una buena muerte que una mala vida.
The Buenrostros are an important and prosperous family, but it's the women who rule the roost. Between their love triangles and secret snuff business, these...
20) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (37 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Español
Description
In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst...