The final installment of director Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy stars Antonio Banderas as the gunslinging El Mariachi, hired by a CIA agent (Johnny Depp) to kill a renegade general (Gerardo Vigil) working with a drug-lord (Willem Dafoe) to overthrow the Mexican government. Like the Leone Westerns that helped inspire it, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO is packed with larger-than-life characters and bravura action sequences. With Salma Hayek, Eva Mendes and Mickey Rourke.

Robert Rodriguez’s feature directorial debut was famously made on a shoestring for the Mexican home video market before being picked up for distribution by Columbia Pictures. Carlos Gallardo stars as the title musician, thrown into the fight of his life when he is mistaken for a ruthless criminal who also carries a guitar case. In Spanish with English subtitles.