Max Kerlow

Max Kerlow

Prolific Mexican actor with more than 100 films in his filmography. His first intention was to be a painter. However, life would take him on other paths and his incursion into the world of the arts would be as an architect, a career he studied at the suggestion of a cousin just out of school, given his interest in painting, and from which he graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1954. Shortly after, he dedicated himself to promoting crafts with artists such as Manuel Felguérez and Felipe Ehrenberg, one of his first assistants. With Felguérez he devised a different line of ceramics and with Ehrenberg he invented a technique for painting on amate paper, which he later taught to indigenous people in the facilities of his café-gallery La Amargura, located on the street of the same name in the San Ángel neighborhood. As a painter he only mounted one exhibition, although every day he drew and made caricatures from the news in the newspapers: "One ends up with more or less possibilities of doing what one wanted, although, as Picasso said, at this age is when one has more desire to do things; I feel that one understands them better, knows better what one wants to do, but it is already too late," he acknowledges in the documentary by Carolina Kerlow. However, it would be in the acting facet in which he would stand out the most and which would give Max Kerlow the most satisfaction. He began his career in Mexican cinema in 1963 under the direction of Juan José Gurrola in Confesión de Stavroguin. A friend of directors such as Paul Leduc, Felipe Cazals and Arturo Ripstein, it was natural for him to be invited to participate in their films, although Max Kerlow assured that he always liked acting: "I was invited to parties sometimes just to tell jokes; I have my diploma as a joke teller". He was also a magician. He was even able to combine his interests: "When Miguel Littin said "we are going to Chihuahua to film Actas de Marusia (1976), I took the opportunity to bring my catalogs and sold my crafts very well". And he was not just any actor making any movie. His film performances are proof of his histrionic quality. He participated in Las Poquianchis (1976), El apando (Felipe Cazals / 1976), Fox Trot (Arturo Ripstein / 1976); Frida, naturaleza viva (Paul Leduc / 1983), where he played the role of Leon Trotsky, Cabeza de Vaca (Nicolas Echevarria / 1991); Cómodas mensualidades (Julian Pastor / 1992); Kino (Felipe Cazals / 1993); De noche vienes Esmeralda (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo / 1997); La hija del caníbal o Lucía, Lucía (Antonio Serrano / 2003), Morirse está en hebreo (Alejandro Springall / 2007); Cinco días sin Nora (Mariana Chenillo, 2008). In 1998 he won the Ariel Award for best male co-acting for his performance in Por si no te vuelvo a ver (Juan Pablo Villaseñor, 1997), debut film of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). In the Italian film Mediterráneo (1991), directed by Gabriele Salvatores, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film, Max Kerlow had a leading role. He also participated in documentaries and commercials.

  • Title: Max Kerlow
  • Popularity: 0.646
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1928-03-03
  • Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
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Max Kerlow Movies

  • 2004
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    Espíritu deportivo

    Espíritu deportivo

    1 2004 HD

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  • 1992
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    Juegos nocturnos

    Juegos nocturnos

    1 1992 HD

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  • 1986
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    The Humiliated

    The Humiliated

    5.2 1986 HD

    Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.

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  • 1976
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    Celestina

    Celestina

    5 1976 HD

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  • 2006
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    A Wonderful World

    A Wonderful World

    7.6 2006 HD

    A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

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  • 1973
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    The Mansion of Madness

    The Mansion of Madness

    4.625 1973 HD

    The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place...

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  • 1987
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    Macho y hembras

    Macho y hembras

    5 1987 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1990
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    Las buenas costumbres

    Las buenas costumbres

    5 1990 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1976
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    El perro y la calentura

    El perro y la calentura

    5 1976 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1973
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    Reed: Insurgent Mexico

    Reed: Insurgent Mexico

    5.8 1973 HD

    A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the...

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  • 1976
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    The Aztec Karate Fighter

    The Aztec Karate Fighter

    5.8 1976 HD

    Potter who makes fake pre-Colombian statues gets mixed up with thieves and treasure-hunters at an Aztec art museum.

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  • 1977
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    El viaje

    El viaje

    6 1977 HD

    After the death of his mother, a man agrees to travel to Europe as a tourist guide falls in love with the head of the agency.

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  • 1977
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    The Diabolical

    The Diabolical

    4.2 1977 HD

    Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him. Then he rapes her and put the...

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  • 1972
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    Aunt Isabel's Garden

    Aunt Isabel's Garden

    5.6 1972 HD

    A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

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  • 1978
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    The Bees

    The Bees

    4.7 1978 HD

    Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of...

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  • 1977
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    Brothers of the Wind

    Brothers of the Wind

    5.3 1977 HD

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  • 1973
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    I Escaped from Devil's Island

    I Escaped from Devil's Island

    4.7 1973 HD

    In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

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  • 1978
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    En defensa propia

    En defensa propia

    5.9 1978 HD

    The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed,...

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  • 1986
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    What Do You Think?

    What Do You Think?

    4.7 1986 HD

    Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the...

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  • 1976
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    Las Poquianchis

    Las Poquianchis

    6.9 1976 HD

    During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered...

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  • 1986
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    Va de Nuez

    Va de Nuez

    5 1986 HD

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  • 1981
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    Cuentos de Principes y Princesas

    Cuentos de Principes y Princesas

    5 1981 HD

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  • 1991
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    Cabeza de Vaca

    Cabeza de Vaca

    6.8 1991 HD

    An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One...

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  • 1986
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    Murieron a la mitad del rio

    Murieron a la mitad del rio

    5 1986 HD

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  • 1991
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    Bandidos

    Bandidos

    6 1991 HD

    In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival.

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  • 1988
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    El cielo subterraneo

    El cielo subterraneo

    5 1988 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1987
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    Pasa en las mejores familias

    Pasa en las mejores familias

    5 1987 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1991
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    Dentro de la noche

    Dentro de la noche

    5 1991 HD

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  • 1992
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    Cómodas mensualidades

    Cómodas mensualidades

    4 1992 HD

    Young married guy is overwhelmed by the expenses involved with starting a family.

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  • 1994
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    The Queen of the Night

    The Queen of the Night

    4.5 1994 HD

    The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary...

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  • 2007
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    My Mexican Shivah

    My Mexican Shivah

    6 2007 HD

    After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

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  • 1998
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    Luces de la noche

    Luces de la noche

    5 1998 HD

    On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.

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  • 2002
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    Moctezuma's Revenge

    Moctezuma's Revenge

    5 2002 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1994
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    Perfume, efecto inmediato

    Perfume, efecto inmediato

    5 1994 HD

    A cosmetologist invents a perfume that helps her sister seduce her boss. When her boss realizes the power of the perfume he will try to steal the...

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  • 2003
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    Lucía, Lucía

    Lucía, Lucía

    5.1 2003 HD

    Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the...

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  • 2005
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    La última noche

    La última noche

    6.53 2005 HD

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  • 1994
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    El tesoro de Clotilde

    El tesoro de Clotilde

    4.7 1994 HD

    Clotilde dies, and her god-daughter has promised to carry out a final wish for her. Two gangs of thieves and the cops interfere with her fulfilling...

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  • 2006
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    Sea of Dreams

    Sea of Dreams

    4.8 2006 HD

    On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place where people carry strong beliefs that can fulfill...

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  • 2008
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    Nora's Will

    Nora's Will

    6.6 2008 HD

    Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to...

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  • 1995
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    Viva San Isidro!

    Viva San Isidro!

    5.5 1995 HD

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  • 2008
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    El Viaje de la Nonna

    El Viaje de la Nonna

    5.8 2008 HD

    A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!

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  • 1994
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    Bodas Negras

    Bodas Negras

    1 1994 HD

    Short produced by TV Azteca, starring José Alonso, Leonor Bonilla and Sergio Bonilla

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  • 1978
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    Three Stories of Love

    Three Stories of Love

    1 1978 HD

    Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.

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  • 1997
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    If I Never See You Again

    If I Never See You Again

    7 1997 HD

    Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront...

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  • 2000
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    Compassionate Sex

    Compassionate Sex

    5.7 2000 HD

    Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she...

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  • 1986
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    Frida Still Life

    Frida Still Life

    5.2 1986 HD

    This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a...

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  • 1976
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    The Heist

    The Heist

    6.6 1976 HD

    In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out...

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  • 2003
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    Remembrance

    Remembrance

    10 2003 HD

    The documentary film Remembrance is an outline of the past century taking as a motif the life of Luis Frank, a Lithuanian emigrant. It is a journey...

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  • 2024
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    Ziuta Travesías

    Ziuta Travesías

    1 2024 HD

    Ziuta, Polish, Jewish and survivor of the Second World War, was an extraordinary woman who aroused special devotion. Her political commitment and...

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  • 1977
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    La casta divina

    La casta divina

    6.6 1977 HD

    Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called...

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  • 1973
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    The Prophet Mimi

    The Prophet Mimi

    6.3 1973 HD

    Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

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  • 1978
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    Pubertinaje

    Pubertinaje

    5 1978 HD

    Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine...

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  • 1997
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    Sex Education In Brief Lessons

    Sex Education In Brief Lessons

    4.1 1997 HD

    Alejandra and Ana are college friends, both are virgin and hope to find the love of their life soon. Ana meets Miguel, but they agree to just be...

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  • 2002
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    I Murder Seriously

    I Murder Seriously

    6 2002 HD

    A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has...

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  • 1979
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    Maria of My Heart

    Maria of My Heart

    6.1 1979 HD

    Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses....

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  • 1978
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    Naufragio

    Naufragio

    5.2 1978 HD

    One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and...

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  • 1997
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    Esmeralda Comes by Night

    Esmeralda Comes by Night

    5.2 1997 HD

    The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.

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  • 1976
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    Foxtrot

    Foxtrot

    4.7 1976 HD

    A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.

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  • 1968
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    The Apple of Discord

    The Apple of Discord

    5 1968 HD

    A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.

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  • 1975
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    The Coming of the King Olmos

    The Coming of the King Olmos

    6 1975 HD

    After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest...

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  • 1974
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    Those Years

    Those Years

    5.5 1974 HD

    President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

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  • 1975
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    Letters from Marusia

    Letters from Marusia

    5.3 1975 HD

    Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most...

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  • 1993
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    Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

    Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

    3 1993 HD

    Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of...

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  • 2017
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    One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

    One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

    1 2017 HD

    This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.

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