Mexico, 1951, 88 min.

(Subida al Cielo), The bus passengers encounter a road of birth, death, and sex in a variety of tragic and comic manifestations. Buñuel’s trademark of radical and expressive juxtaposition—his surrealist sensibility—transforms this otherwise “commercial picture” into a caustic and hilarious vision of Mexican life.

Los Olvidados (9:15) 

Mexico, 1950, 88 min. 

Its vision of poverty and despair among juvenile delinquents living on the outskirts of Mexico City is savage and unrelenting, but it never lapses into that sentimentality sometimes called humanism that obscures the social reality.