Carlos Monsiváis Movies

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the...

A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity...

A documentary about vacant lots and warehouses that were suddenly transformed into spaces where the band could listen to the heroic groups that dared...

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang...

Biographical account of the brilliant painter, featuring talks with Leonora Carrington during the later stage of her life in her home in Mexico.

Second of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). Claudia, a young aristocratic girl travels to...

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built...

Terror, transsexualism, and an eternal cult film. What is on the mind of horror film director Juan López Moctezuma and his fans, Manolo and...

"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Sim­ple­men­te, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the grea­test com­de­dian-​ac­tors in the...

A documentary on the function of pornographic film and art during and after the Mexican revolution.

Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawing attention to the...

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.