| Feature Films:
Title and Summary |
Call Number
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Alla en
el Rancho Grande. Northridge, CA: Laguna, 2000, c1948.
Videocassette release of the 1948 motion picture directed by Jorge Negrete.
|
Media PN1995.9.M5 A55 2000
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Alonso's Dream. Brooklyn,
NY: First Run/Icarus Films, c2000.
Alonso lives in the Highland of Chenalho, where his community is filled
with conflict due to the standoff between the Zapatista National Liberation
Army and the Mexican government. The Zapatistias are demaning equal rights
for the indigenous people. This film focuses on the impact the revolution
and paramilitary violence have had on the daily lives of Mayan peasants.
Dialogue in Spanish and Mayan with English voiceover; title and credits
in English. (71 min.) |
Media F1435.3.S68 A46 2000 |
| Ambiciosos, SEE Fever
Mounts in El Pao |
Amor se dice cantando.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
Director, Miguel Morayta. Starring Miguel Aceves Mejia, Julia Sandoval,
Maria E. Podasta, Ethel. (100 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .A4 1999 |
Los amores de Juan Charrasqueado.
Madera, CA: Dist. by Madera CineVideo, 199-?
Juan Charrasqueado va de pueblo en pueblo enamorando mujeres y abandonándolas,
con el afán de vengarse del abandono de María, emborrachándose y sosteniendo
pleitos en las cantinas. Videocassette release of the Mexican motion picture.
In Spanish. Starring David Reynoso, Lucha Villa, Irma Dorantes, Irma Serrano,
Eleazar Garcia. |
Media PN1997.5 .A46 1990z
|
El Angel Exterminador
(Exterminating Angel). Las Cruces, NM: Hen's Tooth Video, 1991, c1962.
Feature film by Luis Buñuel. High society dinner guests find themselves
unable to leave the room, stay there for days and go totally to the bad
before the strange spell is broken. When they go to church to give thanks,
they find themselves unable to leave the church. Note Spanish dialogue,
English subtitles. (93 min.) |
Media PN1997 .A533 1991 |
Angelitos negros.
Madera, CA: Madera Cinevideo [distributor], 2000, c1948.
Feature film starring Pedro Infante. El color de la piel, las diferencias
de raza, abren un enorme abismo entre los seres humanos. Que, en ocasiones,
llevan hasta rechazar a los hijos. Skin color, racial differences, open
an enormous abyss between human beings, who, on occasion, even deny their
own children. |
Media PN2318.I5 A5 2000 |
Los años de Greta.
Mexico: [s.n.], c1991.
Feature film directed by Alberto Bojórquez and starring Beatriz Aguirre,
Pedro Armendáriz, Helena Rojo. (108 min.) |
Media PN1997 .A56 1991 |
Los apuros de dos gallos.
[S.l.]: Mexcinema Video; Madera, CA: Distributed by Madera Cinevideo, c1988.
Four stars of Mexican music in a sensational musical. Directed by Emilio
Gomez Muriel Miguel Aceves Mejía, Lucha Villa, Marco Antonio Muñiz. (86
min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .A67 1988
|
Aqui esta Juan Colorado.
W. Hollywood, CA: Mexcinema Video Corp., 1988.
Una pelicula clasica del cine Mexicano, situada en la epoca de la revolucion,
llena de aventuras, violencia y muerta. Le vida de un hombre valiente que
se dedica a fusilar a los delatores y a enamorar a las mujeres. Videocassette
release of the film from the 1940s. Music, Rosalio Ramirez. Starring Raul
de Anda, Luis Aguilar, Yadira Jimenez, Irma Torrez. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .A68 1988
|
Ay, pena, penita, pena.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
Feature film directed by Miguel Morayta and starring Luis Aguilar, Antonio
Badú, Lola Flores. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .A9 1999 |
Bajo el cielo de Mexico.
Madera, CA: Madera CineVideo, 1955.
Popular music of Mexico; sung by Miguel Aceves Mejía, Marga Lopez, La Prieta
Linda, Jaime Fernandez, Carlos Baledon. (90 min.) |
Media PN1995.9.P5 B2 1955 |
The Ballad of Gregorio
Cortez. Santa Monica, CA: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 2000,
c1982.
Feature film. On June 12, 1901, Gregorio Cortez, a young Mexican family
man, shoots and kills a sheriff in self-defense. For the next 11 days, he
eludes an inflamed posse of 600 Texas Rangers in a 450 mile chase across
Texas. His manhunt captures the nation's interest and his eventual trial
is tainted by the extreme emotions of the country. Based on the book With
His Pistol in His Hand by Américo Paredes. Starring Edward James Olmos,
James Gammon, Tom Bower, Bruce McGill. (106 min.) |
Media PN1997 .B3436 2000
|
La Bamba. Burbank,
CA: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, c1998.
Feature film by Luis Valdez. The man, the myth, and the music that brought
America to its feet and catapulted 17 year-old Ritchie Valens to rock 'n'
roll stardom live again. Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosana
De Soto, Elizabeth Pena, Joe Pantoliano. (108 min.) |
Media PN1997 .B253 1998 |
El bruto (The Brute).
Los Angeles: Media Home Entertainment, 1987, c1952.
Feature film by Luis Buñuel. The surrealistically rendered story of a slow-witted
but strong slaughterhouse worker who is hired by a slumlord to break a tenant
strike, in the course of which he accidentally kills one of the strike leaders.
He is then drawn into a doomed affair with the landlord's sluttish wife.
Starring Pedro Armendariz, Katy Jurado, Beatriz Ramos, Paco Martinez, Gloria
Mestre, Andrés Soler, Roberto Meyer, Rosita Arenas, et al. Spanish dialogue
with English subtitles. (81 min.) |
Media PN1997 .B78 1987 |
El Caballo
bayo. Northridge, CA: Released by Laguna Films, c1997.
Nacieron para odiarse, pero, se amaron al conocerce. Obsesionados por su
ambicion estaban en las garras de la venganza y la pasion. Directed by Rene
Cardona, starring Antonio Aguilar, Maricruz Olivier, Jaime Fernandez, Alejandro
Reyna, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Enrique Lucero, Victor Everg. (ca. 91 min.)
|
Media PN1997.5 .C32 1997
|
Una Carta de amor. California:
Laguna Films: Madera Cinevideo (distributor), 2000.
Una historia de amor entre un prófugo de la justicia y una dama que nace
accidentalmente en un lugar de México. Esta historia evoca a este país que
sufre y canta. Produced and directed by Miguel Zacarías. Starring Jorge
Negrete, Gloria Marín, Andrés Soler, Emma Roldán. |
Media PN1997 .C3772 2000
|
Cartas marcadas. Van
Nuys, CA: Laguna Films, 1999.
Feature film starring Pedro Infante, Marga Lopez, Rene Cardona, Alejandro
Ciangherotti. In Spanish. |
Media PN1997.5 C37 1999 |
El Centauro Pancho Villa.
Los Angeles: Mexcinema Video Corp., c1986.
Feature Film. Romantic portrayal of the Mexican revolutionist Pancho Villa,
who was nicknamed "El Centauro del Norte". Starring Lucha Villa, Joaquin
Cordero, José Elias Moreno. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .C46 1986 |
Como agua para chocolate
(Like Water for Chocolate). Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Home Video (distributor),
1994, c1992.
Feature Film by Alfonso Arau. Romantic fantasy set in the early 20th century
about a young couple blocked from marrying by the demands of her cold and
selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, and
she expresses her passion for him through her cooking. In Spanish with English
subtitles. Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel. Starring Marco Leonardi,
Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne. (105 min.) |
Media PQ7298.15.S638 C66
1994 |
Como Mexico No Hay Dos.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, 1994, 196-?.
Feature Film. Valente Fierro is hungry for success, stardom, and wealth.
With the help of his friends, Valente finds himself in the big city, leaving
his pregnant wife and child behind in the small town where he grew up, and
sings himself to fame with a sultry voice that seduces many women, from
his manager's wife to numerous high-society beauties, that make him forget
about his beloved wife. Starring Vicente Fernandez, Hector Suarez, Blanca
Guerra, Roberto "Flaco" Guzman, Amparo Muñoz, Maribel Guardia, Carlos Lopez
Moctezuma. (ca. 92 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .C65 2000 |
El Compadre Mendoza.
[Mexico]: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes: Diana Films, c1933.
Feature Film. Mendoza, a landowner, tries to maintain friendships with both
the leader of the government forces and the general of the Zapatista rebels.
In Spanish with English subtitles. Based on an original story by Mauricio
Magdaleno and Juan Bustillo Oro. Starring Alfredo del Diestro, Carmen Guerrero,
Antonio R. Frausto. (82 min.) |
Media PN1997 .C665 1933 |
Cortéz: Dateline Yesterday.
Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1993.
"A dramatized portrait of the redoubtable conquistador, who instigated the
collision of two highly sophisticated and very different cultures when his
tiny army clashed with the forces of Montezuma. The resulting holocaust
gave rise to the birth of modern Mexico." (30 cm.) |
Media F1230 .H485 1993 |
Cuando lloran los valientes.
Hollywood, CA: Mexcinema Video; Madera, CA: Madera Cinevideo [distributor],
c1989.
La historia de un campesino mexicano lleno de vida y audacia, que enfrenta
la muerte sacrificando su amor en aras de la gratitud a su padrino. Una
gran película de cine mexicano. Pedro Infante, Blanca Estela Pavón, Victor
Manuel Mendoza, Virginia Serrat, Armando Soto Lamarina, Joaquin Roche, Eduardo
Casado. Feature film by Ismael Rodriguez. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .C82 1989
|
Cuando quiere un Mexicano:
la gauchita y el charro. Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, 1999, c1944.
A rich young woman, bored of the fake society that surrounds her, flees
her parents home. But the light airplane she left on crashes. Right next
to the crash area lives a Mexican man who hates women. After meeting, the
man ends up falling in love with her. In Spanish. Videocassette release
of the 1944 film directed by Juan Bustillo Oro, and starring Jorge Negrete,
Amanda Ledesma, Enrique Herrera, Berta Lehar. (ca. 84 min.) |
Media PN1993.5.M4 C92 1999
|
A Day without a Mexican:
a Mockumentary. CA: AraU-AriZmendi, c1997.
Presented in documentary fashion, this videotape shows what would happen,
what adverse effects there would be, etc. if all Mexican Americans and Mexicans
in the United States were to be gotten rid of in some way, shape or form.
(30 min., 24 sec.) |
Media PN1997.5 .D39 1997 |
| Death in the Garden,
SEE La mort en ce jardin |
La devoradora. Northridge,
CA: Laguna Films, 1999.
Feature film by Fernando de Fuentes. Starring Maria Felix, Luis Aldas, Julio
Villarreal, Felipe de Alba, Arturo Soto Rangel, Conchita Gentil Arcos, Salvador
Quiroz, Manuel Arbide, Manuel Trejo. In Spanish. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .D4 1999 |
Dolores. New York:
Cinema Guild, 1988.
Presents a dramatization which portrays the problem of domestic violence
in the Latino community. Spanish with English subtitles. (51 min.) |
Media HQ809.3.U5 D6 1988 |
Dos gallos y dos gallinas.
Madera, CA: Aztec Cinevideo, c1984.
Mexico's outdoor beauty is a backdrop for this romantic musical. Director,
Emilio Gómez. Starring Muriel Miguel Aceves Mejía, Marco Antonio Muñiz,
María Duval, Rosina Navarro. (94 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .D67 1984
|
Duelo en El Dorado (duel
in El Dorado). Madera, CA: Madera CineVideo, c1986.
A violent encounter between two men for the possession of a child, one his
adopted father, an Indian who gave him love and care; the other, the real
father, a gunman who abandoned him at birth and now wants him back at any
price. Director: René Cardona. Luis Aquilar, Lola Bertrán, Emilio Fernández,
German Valdez. In Spanish. (90 min.) |
Media PN1995.9.P5 D8 1986
|
Echame a mi la culpa.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
Videocassette of a film originally produced in Spain in 1958 under the title
"Echame la culpa." Starring Miguel Aceves Mejia, Lola Flores,
Fernando Soto (Mantequilla), Miguel Ligero. (95 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .E23 1999
|
Escuela de vagabundos.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
Dirección, Rogelio A. Gonzalez. Pedro Infante, Miroslava, Blanca de Castrejon,
Fernando Casanova, Oscar Pulido. (96 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .E8 1999 |
Fever
Mounts in El Pao (Ambiciosos) (Republic of Sin). Lancaster, CA: Foothill
Video, [c1996, 1959?].
Feature film by Luis Buñuel. The secretary to the assassinated governor
of an impoverished island dependency of a large and powerful Latin American
nation successfully stops a prisoners' revolt which threatens to take over
the island's capital, and so becomes the dead governor's successor. Dubbed
into English from the original French. Based on the novel La Fièvre à
El Pao, by Henry Castillou. Starring Gérard Philipe, María Félix, Jean
Servais, Miguel Angel Ferriz, Raúl Dantés, Domingo Soler, Victor Junco.
(100 min.) |
Media PN1997 .F53 1996 |
Frida. Los Angeles:
Connoisseur Meridian Films, 1997, c1984.
A dramatized re-creation of the life of Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist, feminist
and revolutionary. In Spanish with English subtitles. (108 min.) |
Media PN1997 .F89 1997 |
Frida Kahlo, Portrait
of a Woman. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c1992.
A theatrical presentation of the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. (22
min.) |
Media ND259.K33 F75 1992 |
El Gallo de oro. Madera,
CA: Madera Cinevideo, c1984.
Cockfights and mariachi music form the backdrop for the traditional rivalry
between villain and hero. Director, Roberto Gavaldon; argumento, Juan Rulfo;
adaptación, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Marquez, Robert Gavaldon. Starring
Ignacio López Tarso, Lucha Villa, Narciso Busquets. (105 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .G342 1984
|
El gallo giro. Madera,
CA: Madera CineVideo [distributor], c1990.
Las mas bellas canciones sirven de marco a la historia de un "gallero" enamorado
y peleonero como no hay dos. Directed by Alberto Gout and starring Luis
Aguilar. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .G34 1990
|
| Gavilán pollero. Northridge,
CA: Laguna Films, 2000, c1993. In this Mexican musical drama, José Inocencia
(el gavilán pollero) and Luis are a pair of wandering and irresponsible
cowboys who suffers through various misadventures on a trip to the capital
and back, including getting drunk, getting shot, landing in jail and escaping
from the clutches of predatory females who would trap them into a sedentary
a and directed by by Rogelio A. Gonzalez. (102 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .G365 2000
|
The Gringo in Mañanaland:
A Musical. Willow NY: Halleck, 1995.
A montage of U.S.-produced films about Latin America, from silent films
through 1995 television news, including corporate videos, around the themes
of U.S. discovery of a tropical paradise with friendly native women, of
money to be made, of local bandits and the need for U.S. troops. (61 min.) |
Media PN1995.9.L37 G74 1995 |
Grounds: Inhale the Scent
of History. San Francisco, CA: Canspeak Pictures, 2000.
During the Mexican Revolution, a widow buried a coffee can filled with family
treasures and crossed into the United States. The can was never found and
became a lost ancestral time capsule. More than eighty years later, the
woman's great-granddaughter uses her own story of moving to San Francisco
to explore the scent of history and the organic texture of migratory memory.
(11 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .G76 2000 |
Hasta que perdío Jalisco.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, 2000.
Feature film by Fernando de Fuentes, and starring Gloria Marin, Jorge Negrete.
(90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .H37 2000
|
Los hijos de Maria Morales.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films; Madera, CA: Distributed by Madera Cinevideo,
c1999.
Starring Pedro Infante, Antonio Badu. (100 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .H5 1999 |
El hombre cine Mexicano:
Pedro Infante. [S.l.]: Mexcinema Video Corp.; Madera, CA: distributed
by Madera CineVideo, 1985.
"Pedro Infante, a quien podemos llamar con justificada razon 'el senor cine
Mexicano', interpreta los mas diversos papeles en su vida artistica. Desde
el osado y bravo charro Mexicano, hasta el ingenuo y timido indio."--Container.
(90 min.) |
Main? PN1997.5 .H65 1985 |
La huella del chacal.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1998.
Feature film directed by Jaime Salvador and starring Antonio Aguilar, Flor
Silvestre. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997 .H8 1998 |
In necuepaliztli
in Aztlan (Retorno a Aztlán) (Return to Aztlan). México, D.F.: Volcán
Producciones, 1992?
In hopes of ending a drought a group of Mexicas gather an offering for the
goddess Coatlicue and make the treacherous journey back to Aztlan, the land
of their forefathers. In Aztec with English subtitles. (1 hr., 33 min.)
|
Media PN1997 .I5 1992 |
Jalisco, canta en Sevilla.
CA: Laguna Films; Madera, CA: Dist. by Madera CineVideo, c1999.
Un charro y su compañera son invitados para ir a Sevilla a recibir una herencia
sin encontrar al remitente, en su lugar conocen a un ex-torero que los invita
a su rancho. In Spanish. Feature film by Fernando de la Fuente, starring
Jorge Negrete, Carmen Sevilla, Jesus Tordesillas, Mercedes Muños. (100 min.)
|
Media PN1993.5.M4 J3 1999
|
Jalisco nunca pierde.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1994.
"Un hombre pobre se enamora de la hija de un millonario, pero un aristócrata
venido a menos está dispuesto a jugárselas todas por conquistarla... hasta
matar."--Container. Cast: Vicente Fernandez, Susana Dosamantes, Lucha Villa.
Cardona, René, Director. (91 min.) |
Media PN1995.9.P5 J3 1974
|
El jinete sin cabeza.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c2000.
Directed by Chano Urueta and starring Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre.(90 min.)
|
Media PN1997 .J5 2000 |
Juan sin miedo. CA:
Laguna Films; Madera, CA; Dist. by Madera CineVideo, c1999.
Para estar con su amada, un valiente decide raptaria en piena fiesta de
coronación ya que ella es la reyna del pueblo, sin embargo el capitán de
los rurales, que siempre la há pretendido, logra interponerse entre ellos
cortándole un brazo. No se pierda el final de esta interesante historia.
In Spanish. Directed by Guilberto Gazon and starring Luis Aguilar, Ofelia
Montesco, Flor Silvestre. (100 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .J8 1999 |
Juárez. Culver City,
CA: MGM/UA Home Video, 1991, c1939.
Feature Film. A revolutionary leader causes the downfall of Emperor Maximilian
of Mexico. Based in part on a play by Franz Werfel and the novel The
Phantom Crown by Bertita Harding. Starring Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian
Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp, Joseph Calleia, Gale
Sondergaard, Gilbert Roland, Henry O'Neill. (123 min.) |
Media PN1995.9.M5 J83 1991 |
Lagunilla, mi barrio.
[S.l.]: VideoVisa; Madera, CA: Madera CineVideo [distributor], c1980.
En la Lagunilla hay algo para todo el mundo, hasta el amor. Director, Raul
Ariaza. Manolo Fabregas, Lucha Villa. |
Media PN1997 .L334 1980 |
Latino Hollywood: A History
of Latino Participation in the Hollywood Film Industry, 1911-1940. Tucson,
AZ: Mexican American Studies and Research Center, University of Arizona,
c1994.
Latinos have contributed to the American film industry since its earliest
days. During the silent and early talkie era, Latinos were almost always
stereotyped as tempestuous lovers, bandidos, or cantina girls. This program
remembers many of the early Latino actors and actresses and examines some
of the stereotypical roles they portrayed. (31 min.) |
Media PN1998.2 .L38 1994 |
| Like Water for Chocolate,
SEE Como agua para chocolate |
Lost Soul. New York:
Cinema Guild, 1992.
Dramatization of drug use by an hispanic teenager from the barrio of New
York City. Despite support from a happy but poor family and attempts to
intervene by his parents and siblings, he becomes increasingly addicted
to drugs with tragic but realistic consequences. In Spanish and English.
(37 min.) |
Media HV5824.E85 L6 1992 |
El lugar sin limites (Place
without limits). Los Angeles: World Artists Home Video, 2001, c1977.
Feature film. La Manuela, a transvestite, lives in a brothel run by his
daughter. When his daughter is threatened, La Manuela steps in to protect
her with tragic consequences. In Spanish with new English subtitles. Based
on the novel by José Donoso. Music by Lucha Villa, Carmen Salinas, Ana Martin,
Julian Pastor, Don Fernando Soler, Gonzalo Vega, Roberto Cobo. 1 DVD videodisc
(110 min.) |
Media PN1997 .L83 2001 |
Maria Candelaria (Xochimilco).
Chicago: Facets Multimedia, 198-?, c1943.
Feature film. Maria is an outcast in her small Mexican village because of
her late mother's immoral behavior. Her poverty and misery are exploited
by the local farm lord and a well-to-do city artist who sees in her face
the perfect woman whom he wishes to paint. This leads everyone into tragedy.
Spanish with English subtitles. Starring Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendariz,
Alberto Galan. (ca. 96 min.) |
Media PN1997 .M25927 1980z |
El Mariachi. Burbank,
CA: Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1993.
Feature film by Robert Rodriguez. All he wants is to be a mariachi, like
his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the
town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken
identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing
for his life. Note In Spanish with English subtitles. Starring Carlos Gallardo,
Consuelo Gómez, Reinol Martinez, Peter Marquandt. (ca. 81 min.) |
Media PN1997.M263 R64 1993 |
Mecanica nacional.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1997. (100 min.)
Braveros, sentimentales, lujuriosos, irresponsables, es el retrato de su
vecino, su comadre y de usted mismo. Starring Manolo Fabregas, Lucha Villa.
|
Media PN1997 .M4 1997 |
Mi querido viejo.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, 1997.
"He had struggled for success but still missed the affection that a father
expects from his son. A beautiful film that reunites two great stars, father
and son, Vicente Fernandez and Alejandro Fernandez." Dir: Rafael Villaseñor
Kuri. Starring Vicente Fernandez, Alejandro Fernandez, Julieta Rosen, Manuel
Ojeda, Stephanie Salas, Irma Dorantes. (ca. 90 min.) |
Media PN1993.5.M4 M5 1997 |
Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy
Life). New York: HBO Home Video, c1994.
Feature film by Allison Anders. The members of rival Latino gangs in Los
Angeles are feuding, and the girl friends are trying to stay out of the
struggle for power and survive. Starring Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob
Vargas, Panchito Gomez, Jesse Borrego. (100 min.) |
Media PN1997 .M4363 1994 |
Miles from the Border.
New Day Films, c1987.
(15 min.) |
Media F869.L89 M482 1987b |
La mort en ce jardin (Death
in the garden). New York: Interama Video Classics, 1996, c1956.
Feature film by Luis Buñuel, starring Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, George
Marchal, Michel Piccoli, Tito Junco, Paul Ramirez, Luis-Aceves Castañeda,
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Albert Pedret, Marc Lambert, Stefani, Michèle Girardon.
French dialogue, English subtitles. (104 min.) |
Media PN1997 .M667 1996 |
La mujer sin alma.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, 2000, c1944.
Feature film by Fernando de Fuentes, starring Maria Felix, Antonio Badu,
Fernando Soler, Emma Roldan. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .M84 2000 |
| My Crazy Life, SEE
Mi Vida Loca |
My Family (Mi Familia).
Atlanta: Turner Home Entertainment, 1995.
Feature Film. Presents the three-generation saga of the Sanchez family as
told by the eldest son. From the beginnings of his father's journey from
Mexico to California in the 1920s, to his brother Chucho's tragic rebellion
of the 1950s, to the stark realities of modern day, the struggle to live
the American dream is sometimes darkened but never diminished for Paco Sanchez
and his family. Starring Jimmy Smits, Esai Morales, Eduardo Lopez Rojas,
Jenny Gago, Elpidia Carrillo, Enrique Castillo, Constance Marie, Edward
James Olmos, Lupe Ontiveros, Jacob Vargas, Jennifer Lopez, Maria Canals,
Leon Singer, Michael D. Lorenzo, Jonathan Hernandez. In English and Spanish
with English subtitles. (121 min.) |
Media PN1997 .M893 1995 |
No basta
ser charro. Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, 1999, c1945.
A videorecording of the 1945 motion picture released in Mexico. Jorge Negrete,
Carmelita González. In Spanish. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .N62 1999
|
Nocturno a rosario.
Mexico: [s.n.], c1980.
Feature film directed by Matilde P. Landeta and starring Ofelia Medina,
Patricia Reyes Spindola, Simón Guevara. (101 min.) |
Media PN1997 .N63 1980 |
Les orgueilleux (The proud
ones). Los Angeles: Video France, 1993, c1953.
Feature film. An existential drama and love story set in a seedy Mexican
coastal town. A former doctor blames himself for his wife's death and tries
to find oblivion in alcohol. An aristocratic woman tourist, newly widowed
and broke, is both attracted and repelled by him. Based on "Typhus" by Jean
Paul Sartre. Starring Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Victor Manuel Mendoza,
Carlos Lepez Moctezuma, Michèle Cardone, André Toffel, Arturo Soto Rangel,
and the inhabitants of Veracruz. In French and Spanish with English subtitles.
(100 min.) |
Media PN1997 .O64 1993 |
Padre nuestro que estas
en la tierra. Madera, CA: Madera CineVideo [distributor], c1989.
El drama del hijo nacido de la relacion vergonzosa de un enano y una mujer
madura, amargada por la miseria. Direccion, Julio Aldama. Starring Manuel
Lopez Ochoa, Lola Beltran, Nubia Marti. (90 min.) |
|
Pancho Villa y la valentina.
Madera, CA : Madera CineVideo [distributor], c1987.
Feature film. La violencia del centauro del Norte con la valentia el amor
de una mujer que se hizo famosa en la revolucion Mexicana por su valor y
su belleza: La Valentina. Starring Pedro Armendariz, Elsa Aguirre. (90 min)
|
Media PN1997.5 .P36 1987 |
The Party Line. New
York: Cinema Guild, 1996.
Dramatization. Mexican American young people renew a high school romance
clearing up the problem that separated them after the senior prom. (26 min.) |
Media PS628.M4 P3 1996 |
Perjura. Northridge,
CA: Laguna Films, c2000.
Director, Rafael Sevilla. Starring Jorge Negrete, Marina Tamayo, Sara García.
(96 min.) |
Media PN1997 .P46 2000 |
Picardía Mexicana.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1993.
Feature film by Abel Salazar. "Picardía Mexicana es una historia que se
desarrolla entre albures, risas, lagrimas y algrías. Un maestro se intercepta
en camino de Vicente y un niño, para enseñarles el camino del la felicidad."--Container.
Starring Vicente Fernández, Jacqueline Andere. (ca. 95 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .P52 1993 |
| Place without Limits,
SEE Lugar sin limites |
| The proud ones, SEE
Les orgueilleux |
Que me toquen las golondrinas.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
Starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Viriginia Luque, Fernando Soto (Mantequilla),
Francisco Alvarez, Perla Alvarado, Lidia Quintana. (92 min.) |
Media F1760 .Q5 1999 |
Reed, Mexico Insurgenté.
Los Angeles: Meridian Video: Connoisseur Video Collection: Mirada, 1995,
c1973.
A dramatization of John Reed's accounts of the Mexican Revolution; the young
journalist's adventures with Pancho Villa's army in 1913-1914 are depicted.
Spanish dialogue, English subtitles. (104 min.) |
Media PN1997 .R436 1995 |
| Republic of Sin, SEE
Fever Mounts in El Pao |
| Return to Aztlan, SEE
In necuepaliztli in Aztlan |
Revolver sangriento. CA:
Laguna Films; Madera, CA; Dist. by Madera CineVideo, c1999.
Cuando se nace con alma de pistolero no se piensa más que en matar. El fiel
compañero para esto es un Revolver. In Spanish. Directed by Miguel M. Delgado,
starring Luis Aguilar, Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Lola Beltran. (90
min.) |
Media PN1997 .R4 1999 |
Rogaciano, el huapanguero.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
Director, Rene Cordona. Starring Miguel Aceves Mejia, Lola Beltran, Rosita
Arenas, Raul Ramirez, Arturo Castro (Mantequilla). (100 min.) |
Media PN1997 .R649 1999 |
Rosa Blanca. [S.l.]:
Condor Video, 1987, c1960.
Feature film by Roberto Gavaldón, based on the controversial novel by B.
Traven. The White Rose exposes the most flagrant evils of capitalism, foiled
by a peasant's reverence for the land he lives on. Starring Ignacio López
Tarso, Christiane Martel, Reinhold Olszowski, Rita Macedo. In Spanish
with English subtitles and English with Spanish subtitles. (ca. 100
min.) |
Media PN1997 .R676 1987 |
| Romelia's Secret, SEE
El secreto de Romelia |
El secreto
de Romelia (Romelia's Secret). [S.l.: s.n., 198-?]
Feature film. A young woman discovers her mother claimed to be a widow when
actually her husband had abandoned her. Starring Diana Bracho, Pedro Armendáriz,
Dolores Beristáin. Spanish with English subtitles. (100 min.) |
Media PN1997 .S43 1980z |
Selena. Burbank, CA
: Warner Home Video, 1998.
Feature film. The story of the Grammy Award-winning South Texas singer whose
life tragically ended just as she was taking Tejano music where it had never
gone -- into mainstream America. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos,
Jon Seda, Constance Marie, Jacob Vargas, Lupe Ontiveros, Jackie Guerra,
Rebecca Lee Meza. (128 min.) |
Media ML420.S458 S45 |
La selva de fuego.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films; Madera, CA: Distributed by Madera CineVideo,
c2000.
En plena selva Amazonica, fugitivos de la justicia se encuentran con la
única mujer sobreviviente de un barco hundido, todos quieren poseerla pero
justamente el que más odiaba a las mujeres se decide a defenderla. In Spanish.
Feature film by Fernando de Fuentes, starring Dolores Del Río, Arturo de
Córdova, Luis Beristain, Manuel Donde, Chino Herrera. (90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .S44 2000
|
Señora Ama. Northridge,
CA: Laguna Films; Madera, CA: Distributed by Madera CineVideo, 2000, c1954.
"Un rico terrateniente de castilla, al darse cuenta que su mujer no podía
tener hijos la engaña con otras procreando varios, más tarde ella logra
salir embarazada, pero su problema ya se había agravado llegando al punto
de ser castigada brutalmente."--Container. Based on the play by Jacinto
Benavente; directed by Julio Bracho; starring Dolores del Río, José Suárez.
(90 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .S45 2000
|
Si Adelita se fuera con
otro. Northridege, CA: Laguna Films, 1999, c1945.
Videocassette release of a 1945 motion picture directed by Chano Urueta,
and starring Jorge Negrete, Gloria Marín, Fernándo Casanova, Roberto Cañedo,
Crox Alvarado, Miguel Angel Feríz, José Elias Moreno. (120 min.) |
Media PN1993.5.M4 S4 1999
|
Si me han de matar mañana.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, 1991.
Starring Pedro Infante, Sofia Alvarez, René Cardona. |
Media PN1997.5 .S5 1991
|
Solo con tu pareja.
Mexico: [s.n., 198-?]
Feature film. A promiscuous young man receives a false-positive result on
his AIDS test from his nurse, with whom he has been having an affair. He
plans to commit suicide until he learns he does not have AIDS. (90 min.)
|
Media PN1997 .S65 1980z |
Soy puro mexicano.
W. Hollywood, CA: Mexcinema Video, c1989.
Feature film. Portrait of the true Mexican man: simple, brave, in love and
violent. Starring Pedro Armendáriz, Raquel Rojas, Andrés Soler, Miguel Inclán
"El chicote." (90 min.) |
Media PN1997 .S636 1989 |
Tal para cual. Northridge,
CA: Laguna Films, 1999.
Paco y Chabelo buscan solamente diversion, pero a veces al costo pleitos
y reencillas, no tienen ninguna intención de enamorarse, sin embargo entre
canciones y aventuras terminan, siendo atrapados por dos mujéres de las
cuales no podrán desligarse. En esta pelicula pelucula acompañan canciones
clasicas y del recuerdo. Jorge Negrete, Maria Elena Vasquéz, Luis Aguilar,
Rosa de Castilla. Feature film by Rogelio Gonzales, Jr. (ca. 85 min.) |
Main?? PN1997 .T3 1999 |
Tres angelitos negros.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
Videocassette release of a 1958 motion picture. Starring Miguel Aceves Mejía,
Yolanda Varela, Pedro Vargas, Marujita Diaz. (91 min.) |
Media PN1993.5.M4 T7 1999
|
Los 3 bohemios. Northridge,
CA: Laguna Films; Madera, CA: Distributed by Madera CineVideo, c2000.
Los bohemios Agustin, Pedro y Luis son gente muy pobre. Clara, la dueña
de un restaurante los ayuda dandoles trabajo, tiempo despues ellos convierten
ese simple restaurante en un lugar de moda, entreteniendo a la gente con
sus canciones. In Spanish. Director, Miguel Morayta. Starring Luis Aguilar,
Agustin Lara, Pedro Vargas. (82 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .A23 2000
|
Los 3 mosqueteros de Dios.
Los Angeles, CA: VideoVisa, c1990.
Starring Adalberto Martinez, Joaquin Cordero, Javier Solis. (95 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .A2 1990 |
Tú y las nubes. Northridge,
CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
Videocassette release of a 1955 motion picture. Starring Lola Flores, Miguel
Aceves Mejia, Raúl Ramirez, Fernando Soto, Carmen Flores, Carlos Orellana.
(91 min.) |
Media PN1993.5.M4 T9 1999
|
El ultimo cartucho.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, 2000.
Director, Zacarias Gomez Urquiza. Starring Lucha Villa; Manuel Lopez Ochoa.
(90 min.) |
Media PQ6217.A2 U5 2000 |
Valentin de la Sierra.
Madera, CA: Madera Cinevideo, c1985.
Two men raised like brothers meet during the Mexican revolution. One is
a rebel, the other is devoted to the military. In Spanish. Feature film
starring Antonio Aguilar, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos. |
Media PN1997.5 .V34 1985
|
La Vida inutil de Pito
Perez. Huntington Park, CA: Film-Mex Productions, c1986.
Pito Perez es un soñador cuyos sueños de riqueza y poder nunca se cristalizan.
No obstante, brindando su ayuda a los demás y recibiendo el desprecio y
mal trato de la gente. Pito Perez dreams of having power and riches but
his dreams never come true. Nevertheless, he helps other people, but he
receives disregard and mistreatment. Based on the novel by Ruben Romero.
Director, Roberto Gavaldon. Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Lucha Villa, Lilia Prado.
(ca. 90 min.) |
Media PN1997 .V484 1986 |
Viridiana. Burbank,
CA: Hollywood's Attic, 1996, c1961.
Feature film by Luis Buñuel. Story of a young lady about to take
final vows in a convent but becomes involved in setting up a refuge for
society's outcasts. She finds out that she cannot save any lost souls through
prayer and charity. A satire on religion and society. Spanish with English
subtitles. Starring Silva Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey. (90 min.)
|
Media PN1995.9.F67 V5 1996
|
Viva quien sabe querer.
Northridge, CA: Laguna Films, c1999.
A singer and his accompanist travel abroad for a contract that never existed.
The promotor is a swindler who sends them two beautiful accomplices to keep
them from killing him, and to persuade them to return home. Videocassette
release of a 1950s (?) film. Starring Miguel Aceves Mejia, Mabel Karr, Oscar
Pulido. (89 min.) |
Media PN1997.5 .V58 1999 |
| Xochimilco, SEE Maria
Candelaria |
Zoot Suit. Universal
City, CA: MCA Universal Home Video, c1981.
Feature Film. A group of Mexican-Americans are sent to San Quentin unjustly
for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the actual case and zoot
suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles. Based on the original play by Luis Valdez.
Starring Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, John Anderson, Tyne Daly, Daniel
Valdez. (1 hr., 44 min.) |
Media PS3572.A387 Z66 1991 |
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