The best Eligio Meléndez’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Eligio Meléndez’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Eligio Meléndez.
New Order
6.5/10
In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.
La Civil
7.2/10
Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
7.1/10
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
I Dream in Another Language
7.4/10
An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.
Tragic Jungle
5.6/10
Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an ancient Mayan legend.
El Día de la Unión
4.8/10
Perseguida
5.7/10
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected...
Curandero
4.9/10
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
Fireflies
6.8/10
Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.
Yerbamala
3.7/10
Jesús Andrade, a young thug, has decided to rob a stagecoach. At the time of the robbery he realizes that this is one of many stagecoaches of Governor Francisco Carreño and without giving enough importance he continues to theft, then suddenly he falls in love.
Bleak Street
6.5/10
Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
Vultures
A distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but he actually dies without any identification. An assistant coroner and a woman photographer kidnap the body to fake his suicide. The case is assigned to a judicial policeman who is oppressed by the deaths that sorround him.
En el país de no pasa nada
5.9/10
A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
6.9/10
A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in going the right way? An offbeat, allegorical odyssey that blends absurd humor with pastoral imagery. A young man and a dead man journey north through a subtly surreal desert landscape, picking up a wagonful of odd characters as they go in this darkly humorous satire of contemporary Mexico. Written by TIFF LAFF
The Overturning Of The Heart
5.9/10
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
