Netflix has set May 12 for the worldwide premiere of “El Baile de los 41” (“Dance of the 41”), the fact-based drama about the early 20th century scandal that rocked Mexican high society. “El Baile de los 41” focuses on the 1901 scandal of the Ball of the Forty-One where police raided a private home

The 'Dance of the 41' changed the way that Mexico interpreted gender and sexuality forever. The number 13 is commonly considered unlucky, but in Mexico, the number 41 has been seen as taboo and avoided—at one point the Army left the number out of battalions, hotel and hospital rooms didn’t use it an

Based on true events, Dance of the 41 is the forbidden love story between a politician and a lawyer that became a society scandal that roiled early 20th-century Mexico. Ignacio, a charming and handsome congressman, marries the beloved indigenous and illegitimate daughter of the president. Outwardly ...

Elvis Presley's love for Mexico took him to film several movies in different places in the country. In this movie clip from "Fun in Acapulco" where he plays Mie Windgren who works on a boat in Acapulco, Mexico in 1963. When Janie Harkins, the bratty daughter of the boat owner, gets him fired, Mike ...

From the time of Hernando Cortez's conquest until 1821, Mexico was a colony of Spain. Mexico fought for and gained its independence in the early 1800s. On Sept. 16, 1810, in the town of Dolores Hidalgo, the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church's bells and exorted the local Indians to "r...

The Chapultepec Castle is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The site of the hill was a sacred place for Aztecs, and the buildings atop it have served several purposes during its history, including that of Military Academy, Imperial residence, Presidential residen...

Hollywood has always been gay. History can be changed by something small as an openly gay actor starring in blockbuster movies, or even a gay film that inspired another gay film.

In the 2015 James Bond film, Spectre, the opening sequence features a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. At the time, no such parade took place in Mexico City; one year later, due to the interest in the film and the government desire to promote the pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, the federal and l

Full movie: Handsome Devil is a 2016 oproduction of Iraland dealing with coming with age at a boys schools in Ireland.

Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII.