SPAN 428: Contemporary Mexican Literature: DVDs in the Library

ging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device.

A young girl goes to live with her mother and her new stepfather on a rural military outpost. Following her discovery of a labyrinth and the local group of resistance fighters, she is involved in a series of strange encounters.

Based on the hit novel by Ángeles Mastretta, the film portrays the story of a woman who dared to break the mold of her time.

A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession.

Three children (one Mexican, one Cuban and one little Moroccan girl) that all share the same sentiment, having to deal with the absence of a loved one and the need to bring him back home.

Filiberto, a Mexican migrant worker, returns to his home town after working for three years in the United States.

Homeless children living on the streets and in the sewers of Mexico City wandering in packs stealing, using drugs, and hoping for a better life someday.

Two unexpectedly idle university students and one younger kid brother set out to find a now-obscure folk-rock singer-songwriter who's now hospitalized, well, somewhere.

Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while Rosario's mother cares for Carlitos in Mexico.

Love and relationships are portrayed through various narratives.

Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, Andres sets out on a journey to cross the US border in search of his family.

Mexico City, 1968: students take to the streets in marches and riots to protest the government's authoritarian rule. Two students from different walks of life fall in love as they become part of this massive movement.

A road movie about teenage Guatemalan immigrants and their journey to the U.S.

A teenage Honduran girl forms an unlikely friendship with a Mexican gang member who is helping her to smuggle her family into the United States.

A satire of Mexican politics that is a hilarious adventure of double lives and double meanings.

Rodrigo and Rocco are cousins with little in common but devotion to their grandfather. When the grandfather dies, other family members are consumed by the old man's will and the distribution of the inheritance.

A pair of horny Mexico City teenagers from different classes who, after their girlfriends jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman they meet at a wedding.

Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash

A chauffeur that lives an impoverished life with his family turns to crime when he is fed up. When he ruins the chance to make his family wealthy, he puts all of their lives in danger instead.

Alejandro lives in the centre of Mexico City in an enclosed, self-sufficient zone surrounded by ghettos and policed by a powerful private security force. As dawn breaks on his birthday, three teens from the adjacent poorer neighborhood break into one of The Zone's houses.