Movies: Socorro Avelar

  • 1959
    Nazarin

    Nazarin (1959)

    Nazarin

    7.71959HD

    After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside....

    Nazarin
  • 1996
    Solo

    Solo (1996)

    Solo

    4.61996HD

    An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels ...

    Solo
  • 1967
    Los Caifanes

    Los Caifanes (1967)

    Los Caifanes

    81967HD

    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 in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and re...

    Los Caifanes
  • 2001
    Powder Keg

    Powder Keg (2001)

    Powder Keg

    6.92001HD

    The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his inability to help wa...

    Powder Keg
  • 1976
    Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

    Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)

    Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

    5.31976HD

    Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, howe...

    Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
  • 1986
    The Realm of Fortune

    The Realm of Fortune (1986)

    The Realm of Fortune

    5.81986HD

    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....

    The Realm of Fortune
  • 1978
    Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna

    Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna (1978)

    Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna

    5.51978HD

    Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…...

    Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
  • 1994
    The Queen of the Night

    The Queen of the Night (1994)

    The Queen of the Night

    4.51994HD

    The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "ca...

    The Queen of the Night
  • 1976
    El ministro y yo

    El ministro y yo (1976)

    El ministro y yo

    6.81976HD

    Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a...

    El ministro y yo
  • 1989
    Goitia: A God for Himself

    Goitia: A God for Himself (1989)

    Goitia: A God for Himself

    3.61989HD

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    Goitia: A God for Himself
  • 1962
    El tejedor de milagros

    El tejedor de milagros (1962)

    El tejedor de milagros

    5.71962HD

    Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle "....

    El tejedor de milagros
  • 1964
    Zodiac Signs

    Zodiac Signs (1964)

    Zodiac Signs

    41964HD

    A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood....

    Zodiac Signs
  • 1986
    Contrabando y muerte

    Contrabando y muerte (1986)

    Contrabando y muerte

    51986HD

    A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers....

    Contrabando y muerte
  • 1990
    Return to Aztlán

    Return to Aztlán (1990)

    Return to Aztlán

    5.71990HD

    When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a...

    Return to Aztlán
  • 1993
    The Stork's Mistake

    The Stork's Mistake (1993)

    The Stork's Mistake

    7.51993HD

    India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy....

    The Stork's Mistake
  • 1973
    Partners and Lovers

    Partners and Lovers (1973)

    Partners and Lovers

    3.71973HD

    Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)...

    Partners and Lovers
  • 1996
    Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños

    Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños (1996)

    Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños

    51996HD

    Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident. After the accident, she is the only one that remember seeing this man, so she decides to search for him....

    Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños
  • 2002
    La milpa

    La milpa (2002)

    La milpa

    02002HD

    A sensual and painful memory of the Mexican Revolution....

    La milpa
  • 1992
    Wild Blue Moon

    Wild Blue Moon (1992)

    Wild Blue Moon

    4.51992HD

    A young woman uses witchcraft to take her revenge on an artist who dumped her....

    Wild Blue Moon
  • 1983
    Mundo mágico

    Mundo mágico (1983)

    Mundo mágico

    4.81983HD

    Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance....

    Mundo mágico