Mexico
Poison for the Fairies (1986) NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Veneno para las hadas
other title: Veneno para las hadas
In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.
Folk Songs of Mexico Spotify
Alfonso Cruz Jimenez
release date Jan. 1, 1958 publisher: (C) 1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / (P) 1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Folkways Records.
Natalia Lafourcade Spotify
Natalia Lafourcade
release date July 5, 2002 publisher: Sony
Jan. 23, 2026 listened
Great début, full of verve & joy.

(Except for Mírame, Mírate, which is so out of keeping with the rest of the album that I suspect a record exec insisted on having a formulaic ballad.)
2000s NataliaLafourcade Mexico Pop Spanish
¡Qué Viva México! (1979) IMDb TMDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Да здравствует Мексика!
director: Sergei Eisenstein actor: Sergey Bondarchuk / Grigori Aleksandrov
other title: ¡Que Viva Mexico! / Да здравствует Мексика!
Lauded Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent an extended period of time in Mexico working on an ambitious project that was never realized until much later, when this film was assembled from the largely abandoned footage. Moving from ancient Mayan times to the 1930s, the episodic movie features various dramatic segments, including scenes of a marriage ceremony and of bullfighting, as well as a Day of the Dead celebration and depictions of the Mexican Revolution.
Ship of the Monsters (1960) IMDb WikiData TMDB
La nave de los monstruos
director: Rogelio A. González actor: Eulalio González / Ana Bertha Lepe
other title: La nave dei mostri / La nave de los monstruos
A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958) TMDB IMDb WikiData
La momia azteca contra el robot humano
director: Rafael Portillo actor: Ramón Gay / Rosita Arenas
other title: Il terrore viene d'oltretomba / Die Azteken-Mumie gegen den Menschen-Roboter
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.