7 pm The plot of Bugambilia, set in Guanajuato in the 1800s, was inspired by Rodolfo Usigli’s poem “The Bugambilia,” dedicated by Usigli to Dolores del Río; the melodrama has been called the Mexican version of William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights. Amalia, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy miner, arouses the passions of all the men around her, but succumbs to an ill-starred romance with the poor but dashing Ricardo. The second of five films in this series, presented in partnership with the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque. 1945; (more...)

7 pm Margarita, a young woman abandoned by her faithless fiancé, struggles to raise her small son in Mexico City during the difficult early years of the Mexican Revolution. Her troubles are exacerbated by entanglement with La Banda del Automóvil Gris (the Gray Automobile Gang), the members of which dressed in military uniform and used false search warrants to gain entrance to homes and terrorize the city’s wealthy residents in 1915. The third of five films in this series, presented in partnership with the Mexican Consulate in (more...)

7 pm Based on the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie, La perla is the tragic fable of a Mexican fisherman who finds a valuable pearl and begins to fantasize about untold wealth for himself and his family. His wife, at first uncertain as to whether the pearl is an omen of good luck, also falls under its spell, and the couple’s naiveté leads to their exploitation and to the realization that the precious gem brings only death and (more...)