Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)

Summary: A group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to ly...

Release Date: March 04, 1976

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Crime

Director: Felipe Cazals

Writer: Tomás Pérez Turrent

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Conacite Uno, S.T.P.C.

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Macario (1960)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: June 09, 1960

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Director: Roberto Gavaldón

Writers: B. Traven

, Emilio Carballido

, Roberto Gavaldón

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

Production: Clasa Films Mundiales

Distributor: Azteca Films Inc., Connoisseur Video Collection

Country: Mexico

Language: Spanish

The Young and the Damned (1950)

Summary: A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Release Date: March 24, 1952

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Luis Buñuel