A departure from his earlier ‘hyperlink’ films, Inarritu’s soul-searching work features Cannes Best Actor winner Javier Bardem, as a story about one man’s relationship with his community, family and existential self unfolds rewardingly.
With virtuoso filmmaking on display, Ruizpalacios’ mesmerising fourth feature creates explosive drama out of the inner workings of a busy F&B kitchen in Times Square.
A staunch if conniving Catholic wife becomes a husband-cum-taxidermist’s worst nightmare in this ‘60s Mexican cult classic that plunges us into the depths of anger and frustration as well as laying bare the hypocrisy of religious faith in creating false narratives.
Franco’s work features nuanced and quietly affecting performances from Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, as it explores the unlikely encounter between a man suffering from the onset of memory loss and a woman with unresolved trauma.
The Mexican auteur’s debut feels like the work of a veteran, a tour de force exploration of mortality and desires as nature, sexuality and the spiritual commingle in a tale about a man hoping to commit suicide in a remote canyon.
This superb sophomore feature from one of the finest Mexican filmmakers working today is infectious with its artistry as it tells of two men who robbed a famous museum in Mexico City in 1985.
One of the most important works of Mexican cinema to emerge at the turn of the century, this is still Inarritu’s finest achievement as separate narrative threads collide (literally), sparking a thought-provoking treatise on life, love and loss.
Disturbing if politically urgent, Franco takes class warfare to its violent extreme in this Mexican treatise on the consequences of an imagined collapse of civilised society, where the rich and powerful face the wrath of the working-class, and military autocracy becomes the answer to anarchy.
Ripstein’s startling work is the OG ‘Dogtooth’, about a man who has locked his wife and children in his house for nearly two decades, at once so infuriating to watch and a bleak satire on the hypocrisy of toxic patriarchy and the extremes of parental love.
One of Ripstein’s best-known films, this sensual if sobering drama tackles machismo and homophobia in a small Mexican town and its now dilapidated brothel, featuring an intense performance by the cross-dressing Roberto Cobo.
Eternality Tan 