Roma

7.6

2018

135 mins

Drama

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

Dance of the Forty One

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 7.9

Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.

Under Fire

Year : 1983Rating : ⭐ 6.7

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

The Ice Storm

Year : 1997Rating : ⭐ 6.9

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

Salt of the Earth

Year : 1954Rating : ⭐ 7.0

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.

Deseo

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.

Battle in Heaven

Year : 2005Rating : ⭐ 5.8

Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Year : 1946Rating : ⭐ 7.1

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

The Young and the Damned

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 8.1

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Under the Volcano

Year : 1984Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

Kramer vs. Kramer

Year : 1979Rating : ⭐ 7.6

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Addicted

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 5.9

A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

Prison 77

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 7.0

Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. A young accountant, awaiting trial for embezzlement with a possible 20 years sentence, joins a group of prisoners demanding amnesty.

Sundown

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 6.2

When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.

Shirley

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

The Holy Innocents

Year : 1984Rating : ⭐ 7.8

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

Heatwave

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 6.2

A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

The Kitchen

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 6.1

The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.

Amores Perros

Year : 2000Rating : ⭐ 7.7

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

Rojo

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.2

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

In Dubious Battle

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 5.8

In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.