Browse 29 movies from Universidad de Guadalajara
Tired of being mistreated by their husbands, Ema (Reyes Spindola), Clotilde (Elizarraras) and Chayo (Orozco) leave their past (children and husbands included) and begin an adventure that will take them to a cavernous cabaret in Guadalajara, a love affair with a hot-blooded young drug dealer and, finally, a popular and well decorated mexican restaurant in downtown L.A. In the middle, the three women will find their respective self-esteem and their true reasons for living.
Sep 1995
A young woman in the southern Mexican region of Chiapas falls for a revolutionary fighting in the Zapatista conflict.
Aug 2009
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
Nov 1993
Jacqueline (Bonilla) and Nicolas (Echanove) are so in love that they decide to get married "until death takes them apart". When love dies and infidelity takes its place, Jacqueline decides there's no time to fulfill the promise of their votes. She begins to plot her husband's murder, but destiny is committed to surprise her in many ways.
May 1993
In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Oct 1991
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 "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Sep 1994
A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch"? In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory) returns to his native country thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man.
Sep 2004
The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
Dec 1988
Mar 2005
Women who live in Ciudad Juarez organize safe havens for children in some of the most violent neighborhoods in Mexico. There, Diana, Joseph and Gael seek out the freedom that they once had on the streets, and try to heal the wounds that the violence of organized crime has caused them.
Oct 2019
Dolores is a seven-years-old girl who just wants to play. Running away from a fire demon, she accidentally falls into a grave.
Jun 2024
A photographer is murdered after taking photos of a group of kidnapped students. A politician involved in the events is forced to lie in a false official speech.
Sep 2025
After spending some time in a rehabilitation clinic, Ferruco immerses himself in the bowels of the scientific station “Las Joyas” with the purpose of safeguarding this important protected area from fires that threaten the perimeter in times of drought, At the same time, he continues his fight to not fall back on drugs and seeks for the opportunity to redeem himself through his work.
Sep 2024
Based on a true story, 11th Hour recounts how, on the evening of 9/11, Maria Jose's bar is heaving with locals united in grief and a building rage.
Dec 2017
Jul 2023
A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel.
Jan 2008
Olín and Sialia are siblings who venture into the forest where they play hide-and-seek disappearing into the forest and then finding each other using dowsing sticks, but their game is interrupted by the collision with a violent reality.
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Etienne-Jules Marey, a French inventor who turned a gun into a camera. A hand-drawn hunter whose weapon, instead of firing ammunition, shoots photographs. Carlos, a Mexican wildlife photographer who used to be a real life hunter until he chose to get rid of all his guns. All come together in this poetic yet approachable animated documentary short film.
Sep 2023
Emiliano and Oliver, both sixteen, are inseparable. They spend their days together, sharing the same dreams for the future. But an unexpected event disrupts their present, leaving everything uncertain and unclear.
Oct 2025