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Browse 34 movies from Universidad de Guadalajara
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
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
Jul 2023
Bernardo is an old Art History teacher recently retired and widowed from his wife Cecilia. Without a clear path to go on with his life, one day he runs into Víctor, a piano player and long lost love from Bernardo’s past that he hasn’t seen in almost 40 years.
Apr 2021
At Miguel's farewell party, Laura, his girlfriend, and Eduardo, his best friend, face their fears and loneliness. As the night goes on, emotions run high, pushing them to risk what they desire, though not all will find what they expect.
Jul 2022
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Jan 2018
Marcos is an unemployed actor who is called for a strange movie titled "Gargantas golosas III". He receives a strange visit from a drunk man disguised as a rabbit and is driven by his roommate Margarita to face his destiny using the most extreme of the acting tools: The Method...
Mar 1999
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
A young woman in the southern Mexican region of Chiapas falls for a revolutionary fighting in the Zapatista conflict.
Aug 2009
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.
Nov 1995
Miguel, a young B-boy from Guadalajara, pursues his passion as a breakdancer while he manages to balance this practice with his job, his friends, and his new role as a father.
Feb 2013
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
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.
Apr 2026
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
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
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
In the 60's, Puerto Vallarta rose to fame thanks to a Hollywood production named The Night of the Iguana, sparking rapid tourism growth. This documentary explores the environmental and social impacts of the hotel industry’s rise, highlighting the forgotten conservation plan by Jacques Cousteau, the displacement of locals, and the barriers they face in accessing their beaches.
Mar 2016
A Guadalajara teen explores his identity between friendship and desire. During the local church festivities, this search puts his relationship with his grandmother at risk.
Feb 2026