Yirah Aparicio
Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a cinematic extension of Mexico’s muralist tradition, a contemporary equivalent of Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros with vignettes, quick ideas, visual puns, cartoons, and political statements.
Based on the infamous song by the same name "La Negra Tomasa". This is a comical adventure based in a barrio in Mexico. Cesar Bono plays a police office, Alfonso Zayas a ladies man and Roberto Ballesteros a dangerous loan shark who abducts Tomasa out of passion.
A man convinces his wife to let his lover live in the same house as them... until his wife reveals she has a lover of her own.
During an excavation, archaeologist Magdalena (Lina Santos) accidentally resurrects a centuries-old vampire named Vladimir, who promptly disappears. When she attempts to warn authorities, she's locked away in a mental hospital for a spell. Upon release, she sets out to stop the vampire, who's now taken over a nightclub.
Sleazy comedic character "El Mofles" goes to Acapulco where he gets unknowingly involved with a robbery.
Customs Inspector's girlfriend is forced into marriage with the son of a drug kingpin. Payback's a bitch.
Team of fake-seance gals open a school to learn witchery, accidentally link up with a young woman with real telepathic abilities. Meanwhile, some mafiosi have kidnapped a bunch of children...
Pichichi tries to put together a female soccer team as the mafia uses it as a front to distribute drugs.
A man is dumped by his wife after she finds him cheating on her. He loses all his money and possessions, except for his butler, who stays by his side in hopes he'll get back on his feet.
A crazed forest dwelling rapist / killer attacks and murders a family. The husband / father ends up survives and sets out for revenge in this sadistic and splattery shocker.
Father tries to protect his young-adult daughter from his predatory friends.
Sequel to Day of the Laborer. Roberto and his wife Beatriz work on a construction site, him as a laborer and her selling food. Another laborer El Chalan, seduces neighborhood maids in order to rob the homes where they work. In the neighborhood there is also a cereal killer on the loose who preys on prostitutes.
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
Rafael Inclan plays the campy hero in the Mexican By Hook or Crook. Known as the "Super-Mexican", detective Inclan is in his own way as dangerous as France's Inspector Clouseau. A series of murders have occured in the uppermost circles of society. Inclan vows to solve the killings, or die trying (which is a strong possibility). There's a belly-laugh a minute in this silly confection, which since its 1985 release has popped up with regularity on the various Spanish-language TV cable services.
