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Browse 36 movies from Conacite Uno
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Dec 1981
Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.
Apr 1977
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.
Jun 1984
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
Apr 1986
An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
Nov 1984
Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other con man escapes from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.
Aug 1979
On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.
Feb 1978
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Mar 1976
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 her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
Nov 1978
Young Guadalupe and her boyfriend love music. She plays flute and he plays clarinet. On Sundays, after attending mass, they give concerts in their parishes. Salome is a young girl who dances salsa every night. All the men who frequent the room where she dances fall in love with her, especially Raúl, a mechanic convinced that his love is impossible, but it turns out that Guadalupe and Salomé are the same person and their love is realized, in spite of the clarinetist.
Sep 1978
Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.
Jan 1987
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.
Sep 1976
Class differences in Mexican society are expressed in the life and behavior of a young couple member of the burgoisie that will soon become parents, in contrast to their servant and the fatal consequences she suffers due to an unwanted pregnancy.
Jul 1978
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, the whole town rises up.
A schoolteacher in the small city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra has a passionate affair with his frigid wife's sister—despite the risk of having to confront not only his wife, but also his dubious father-in-law.
Nov 1995
Ends the season and Victoria, widow, mature and owns the beachside motel, does not want to spend another winter alone. To avoid it, buy the company of Paul to continue working for her. Paul agrees, provided remain free and enjoy other women. Days after reaching the motel Gloria, a beautiful biologist who claims to be working on a book and, to the surprise of Paul, seems to know everything about Victoria and her past.
Jul 1977
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Nov 1981
A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Nov 1986
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.
Jun 1977
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
Oct 1979