Kemonito: La última caída
2023
7
Kemonito, a beloved mascot of the Mexico World Wrestling Council, has suffered many injuries, but he can’t retire and lose his only means to support his family.
Kemonito: La última caída
2023
7
Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.
La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
2024
10
Con limite de tiempo
2024
0
The courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high murder rate against women - who fight in the ring and in their daily lives to redefine the image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico.
Luchadoras
2021
10
The extreme passion for Lucha Libre, leads a small group of Ecuadorian amateur wrestlers to face each other in a tournament to win a dream opportunity to fight in the Holy Land of Lucha Libre: Mexico.
La Rompecuellos
2015
0
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Carlos Avila, this documentary program profiles three legendary wrestlers in a creative and imaginative exploration of the colorful, fascinating and mysterious world of lucha libre Mexican wrestling.
Tales of Masked Men
2012
8
Between punches and jumps, the fighters of the team "Flecha Dourada" return to the ring after 50 years to relive the glorious era of wrestling in Santa Catarina, South of Brazil.
Flecha Dourada
2017
0
The 70th anniversary of the birth of El Santo and the wrestling debut of his son mark the starting point for which El Hijo del Santo will take us into his story. His family history goes beyond the ring through personal memories and records, and brings us closer to his childhood with a father who had a double identity, to the discovery of the hero at home, and the reasons for wanting to continue this legacy.
El hombre detrás de la máscara
2013
7
A young man from Lima faces anxiety and depression in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic while trying to carry out the most ambitious project of his life: an experimental documentary in the style of the French New Wave about Peruvian wrestling, in which which will condense more than a thousand hours of footage that he has been recording for 4 years. The political and health crises that the country is going through, the confinement and the ghosts typical of someone who suffers from emotional problems will make this work more difficult. So he will cling to the enormous passion he has for cinema and for this beautiful sport that has fascinated him since he was a child.
La nouvelle catch
2022
7
The documentary portrays the life and history of Mexican wrestlers who for various reasons have decided to participate in this contact sport characterizing exotic characters. The exotic refers to the strange, the mysterious, the weird, the unusual. Particularly in wrestling exotic style refers to refined athletes in their clothing, well groomed, with a very special walk, occasionally thin effeminate. Not rude, not technical, but not rare height or size, these mannered gladiators have represented a third option within the Mexican rings, some shamelessly displaying their sexual preference and thereby defying the homophobic, or secretly homophily, mood of the wrestling fans.
Los Exóticos
2013
5
Documentary film by François Reichenbach of the lucha libre in Mexico. A study of the wrestling mania, in which he also delivers a portrait of life, politics and popular culture in Mexico
Violence et Beaute
1981
0
Dr. Frankenstein and her assistant, Dr. Yanco, are going to bring one of their experiments to life in Santo Vs. Frankenstein's Daughter. She intends to use a monster named Ursus to do her evil bidding. Using a youth serum to retain their vitality, the doctors set their sights upon none other than El Santo. They need his super human blood to regenerate a stronger youth serum. They kidnap Santo's goddaughter, Norma and lure him into Dr. Frankenstein's lab where he is captured and enslaved. Will Santo make it out alive?
Santo vs. la hija de Frankenstein
1972
6
Innocent women are being kidnapped and used as guinea pigs for a brain transplant experiment. The diabolical Dr. Frankenstein continues his quest to perfect his brain transplant operation to bring back his deceased wife at any cost - even if it means playing with the lives of others. El Santo and Blue Demon are called in to help when their friend Alicia becomes Dr. Frankenstein's next target. It'll take both heroes to go up against the dastardly doctor and go mano a mano with his super strong zombie Golem.
Santo y Blue Demon contra el doctor Frankenstein
1974
6
Blue Demon vs. el poder satánico
1966
4
In the most important match of his life, the once mighty masked luchador, Son of Jaguar, faces his legacy, his family, and what it means to be a part of something bigger than himself.
Son of Jaguar
2017
6
An evil space vampire arrives on Earth with his army of alien midgets seeking a cosmic princess who befriended a couple of lucha wrestlers.
Luchadores de las estrellas
1992
4
A masked wrestler, The Golden Angel, must defend his beloved against the evil mutant professor.
Terreur sur le campus
2018
0
Ignacio, a disrespected cook at a Mexican monastery, can barely afford to feed the orphans who live there. Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he decides to moonlight as the not-so-famous Luchador "Nacho Libre" to earn money for the monastery -- not to mention the admiration of beautiful nun Sister Encarnación.
Nacho Libre
2006
6
A luchador falls in love with a teddy bear, and thus the greatest love story of all time is born.
Lucha Love
2024
0
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
Hellboy
2019
5