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.
A Naive Luchador dreams of one day winning the championship belt like his father but is stuck wrestling as a racist gangbanger persona; he must now choose between pursuing the belt or staying true to his lucha libre roots.
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.
They say being a woman is all a business and maybe it's true. We are complicated, complex and we look at life differently, exactly what Carolina Rivera captures in 'On the ropes', the new Netflix series that 'unmasks' life's struggles and puts the subject of motherhood on the agenda.
On March 19th Lucha Libre World Cup: Guadalajara, MX 2023 is live! The event features the 2023 Lucha Libre World Cup Women's Tournament and 2023 Lucha Libre World Cup Men's Tournament. The first round matches for both women's and men's tournaments are already announced and you can check them below: 2023 Lucha Libre World Cup Women's Tournament First Round Matches Team Mexico vs. Team Japan, Team United States vs. Team Rest of The World 2023 Lucha Libre World Cup Men's Tournament First Round Matches Team Canada vs. Team Europe, Team United States vs. Team Japan, Team Mexico vs. Team Rest of The World, Dream Team vs. Team Latin America
On December 28, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide presented its “Noche de Campeones” event at the Arena GNP in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.
The daily lives of prominent and revered wrestlers offer us an insight into the characters beneath the masks.
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.
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.
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.
Jose, an eleven-year-old luchador, retreats into a fantasy world until it is infiltrated by a tough 12-year-old girl. He uses his vivid imagination to make it through the toughest weekend of his life.
10-year-old Sophia sets out on the adventure into her world of fantasy and real life to become a masked wrestler by any means possible.
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.
James Wallace is a young American. To him Mexico was just another adventure in a life lived without any grand plans. A place to go where nobody knew who you were and nobody cared. A chance to drop out and get by within Mexico's flourishing underground economy. When he finds himself working as a 'surgeon' in Carlos Melgarejos' burgeoning organ trafficking ring things start looking up. But that was before he met Rosalita, a prostitute at the amateur lucha libre whose profound beauty shakes his insouciance. Suddenly there's more to life than cutting out kidneys south of the border. James wants out and he wants to take Rosalita with him. For Carlos this is more than just another headache in a life filled with niggling trespasses, this is personal.
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.
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