The Exterminating Angel 1962  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
aka: El Angel Exterminador
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Enrique Rambal, Lucy Gallardo, Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Enrique Rambal, Antonio Bravo, Cesar del Campo, Rosa Elena Durgel, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Ofelia Guilmain, Nadia Haro Oliva
While attending a dinner party, the guests are entranced by their host's music room and then find that, for reasons unknown to them, they are trapped in the room. As the days pass, they are reduced to living like savages. Russell (Antonio Bravo) dies, and the other guests put his body in a cupboard. More guests die, and the situation deteriorates until it is suggested that they sacrifice Nobile (Enrique Rambal). Then Letitia (Sylvia Pinal) recommends that they retrace their actions of the last days, and they find themselves freed from the room. Celebrating their freedom, the guests attend mass at a cathedral–only to find that they, along with the priest and congregation, are now trapped inside the cathedral.
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Macario 1960  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Roberto Gavaldon
Cast: Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Jose Galvez, Jose Luis Jimenez, Mario Alberto Rodriguez, Eduardo Fajardo, Consuelo Frank, Jose Dupeyron, Celia Tejeda, Manuel Noriega, Enrique Garcia Alvarez
An old Mexican fable was the basis for B. Traven's novel "The Third Guest," upon which this film is based. Macario (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives in extreme poverty with his family. He goes on a hunger strike to get sympathy and, hopefully, to get a turkey. His wife (Pina Pellicer) steals a turkey and gives it to him, though the children must go to bed hungry. Just as Macario is about to eat it, he is visited by Death and is convinced to share the turkey in return for the ability to heal–as long as Death agrees with the person to be healed. Fame and fortune follow, but promises are hard to keep, and Death doesn't tolerate broken promises. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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A Mother's Sin 1962  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake
Cast: Libertad Lamarque, Dolores del Rio, Enrique Rambal, Teresa Velazquez, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Pedro Geraldo, Alejandra Meyer, Ines Murillo, Luis Manuel Pelayo, Miguel Suarez
A car accident kills a man, but his mistress (Libertad Lamarque), also in the car, survives and later has his baby. She takes the son to the man's wife (Dolores del Rio) and asks that the wife adopt the boy. It is agreed, as long as the mother does not attempt to reclaim the child later. But that turns out to be difficult in this real tearjerker with good performances by the stars.
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Simon of the Desert 1965  N/R, 45 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena, Enrique Alvarez Felix, Enrique del Castillo, Jesus Fernandez, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Antonio Bravo, Francisco Reiguera, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Eduardo MacGregor
Simon (Claudio Brook) is an extremely religious man in the fifth century who has been standing on a tall column in a desert for over six-and-a-half years. Crowds gather as he dispenses healing to the deserving or hands out punishment as needed. Meanwhile, the Devil (Silvia Pinal andk Francisco Reiguera) shows up in several forms to entice Simon off the column, but he recognizes her each time. She finally gets him off, and takes him to a disco in 1960s Manhattan. The film stopped abruptly when Bunuel ran out of money, but he still made his anti-Christian point.
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| 1. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
aka: El Angel Exterminador
2. Macario (1960)
3. A Mother's Sin (1962)
4. Simon of the Desert (1965)
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