Fernando Luján

Fernando Luján

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Fernando Luján

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The Insomnia Club
Three people with insomnia get together at a supermarket where they share their experiences.
Overboard
Papi
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
The Kids Are Back
Manuel
A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back.
A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency
A governor wants to be president, but in order to reach his goal he needs to do what he hates most: being a politician.
K-9 World Cup
The road to glory is walked as a pack. When the Mexicanine Republic becomes the host for the World Canine Cup, the coach has one chance to put together the best team in history; but the new warriors will have to learn to put aside their differences and work as a team, to show their country that ultimate football glory is more than just a dream.
Get Married If You Can
Gustavo Mendes
Ana Paula catches her fiancé cheating. After a night of drinking, she wakes up far from home, not so certain she wants to go back.
The Last Call
Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.
Labios Rojos
Don Luis
In Mexico City, Ricardo is a family man, pressed by responsibilities, when he finally lands a better job as creative director for an ad agency. But that's when his problems really begin: his boss is a martinet, and suddenly Ricardo finds himself unable to perform in bed with his luscious wife, whose red lips have driven him wild to now. She's dismayed that he's seemingly lost interest; she seeks advice from friends and tries to spice things up with Ricardo. Meanwhile, at the office, he faces other temptations. Can Ricardo find a way to succeed at work and succeed at home?
Against the Wind
Justino Samperio
Luisa Braniff who after many years of hard work, obtains the success she has always wished for: to be the General Director of one of the most important technological companies in Mexico. But fate has prepared another surprise to this attractive exectutive. With her new position comes a problem as if it was waiting on the corner of her new dream office: a multimillion scam takes place with her name. Also, it is linked in a direct way to the murder of her best friend Sofia, who is found dead in her apartament. To be able to prove her innocence and preserve her freedom, she will have to look for all the evidence possible to find the real scammer How was it possible that her biggest dream turned in to her worst nightmear? Professional success has its cost.
Euforia
Stuck in a world of dreams and nostalgia, Pat struggles to forget the limelight and fleeting fame of his glory days. When a beautiful young woman named Ana saves his life, Pat agrees to drive her to her ancestral home, in hopes that she can save him from his own past. Unpaved roads treat the pair to a bumpy adventure full of anger management, Beethoven and The Doors, as the journey proves to be full of lessons and revelations.
Nora's Will
José Kurtz
Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains Joseph that due to the celebrations this time of the year, if Nora is not buried that same day, they should wait at least 5 days for the funeral. Nora had planned before his death, a Machiavellian plan in order that Joseph was the one who has to take care of his funeral. But Nora forgot a small detail, a mysterious photograph stored under her bed, that will remind Joseph that the greatest love stories, sometimes are hidden in the smallest places.
Cosas insignificantes
Augusto
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.
Cosas insignificantes
Augusto Gabrieli
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.
Cañitas, presencia
Don Fernando
Based on the novel by Carlos Trejo - which is supposedly based on true events -, the film retells the story of a group of friends that played the Ouija one night together and started to die one by one in mysterious ways. The only survivor was the real-life author, Carlos Trejo. -Edgar Cochran-
Tú te lo pierdes
Miguel wants the love of Helena but he dies. In order to reach heaven and avoid limbo, there is one condition, he must forget Helena, but he will try to avoid this, since he doesn't want to reach heaven if he won't be able to remember her.
El tigre de Santa Julia
Nando
An army deserter turned bandit robs from thieves to give the money to the poor. He was famous for being caught by the police "with his pants down"
En el país de no pasa nada
Enrique Laguardia
A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
No One Writes to the Colonel
El coronel
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
Fuera de la ley
Four raw stories about justice and law.
Dollar Mambo
Writer
Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.
All Souls' Day
Francisco de Jesús Talamantes
Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.
Más Buenas que el Pan
After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try to keep Lalo's daughters away from perverted boys.
En la trampa
Alejandro
Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...
Estas ruinas que ves
Paco Aldebarán
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.
El patrullero 777
Hombre suicida
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
El miedo no anda en burro
Raúl
This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty kitten.
El alegre divorciado
Carlos Pozuelo
Ramón y Socorro, a 50-year-old couple, owners of a tavern, embarks on a long trip to Mexico to attend the wedding of their son, Carlos, with Gloria, the daughter of an important Mexican businessman. Upon arriving in Mexico, Ramón discovers that in this country there is a divorce. Fed up with his wife, he decides to divorce without taking into account that he will soon pay the consequences of this act.
La carrera del millón
Father and uncle have conflicting ideas about who a young woman should marry, so they set up an elaborate, wacky contest to resolve their disagreement.
Pilotos de combate
Mexican feature film
Besos, besos... y mas besos
Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.
Buscando una sonrisa
The cartoonist and engineering student José plays bowling with a hippie friend when he is told that his mother, a jewelry employee, died in an accident. After burying it he remembers that on the beach he fell in love with the blonde Carla, and that he stopped seeing her when he learned that she was very rich and when he saw that he paid a traffic ticket that he could not cover. Now José wanders around the city and plans to kill himself but is almost run over by a car that Carla gets off. Both embrace.
El medio pelo
Doctor Sergio López
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
La gatita
Rubén
Juegos de alcoba
Anthology movie -- three anecdotes relating to liberated, post-sixties, sexual behavior. Swinging couples, hippie-style free-love, etc...
Un amante anda suelto
Tony is a karate master on television and an expert in making any woman fall in love with him. Impunity seems to be his best ally, until the owner of the cafeteria next to a recently stolen bank, hints at an inspector to unmask Tony as the culprit.
La Hermanita Dinamita
Dr. Tello
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
El cuerpazo del delito
Enrique (segment "La seductora")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
Confesiones de una adolescente
Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!
Tres amigos
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
The World's Oldest Profession
Miguel
Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.
5 of Chocolate and 1 of Strawberry
Miguel Ernesto Suárez
A novice eats some special mushrooms and changes her personality acting like a crazy psychedelic girl.
Agente 00 Sexy
Ernesto Romero
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
Báñame mi amor
A 1968 film.
Báñame mi amor
Writer
A 1968 film.
Caballos de acero
Male-bonding, practical jokes, romantic rivalries among cadets in a police academy.
Novias impacientes
A beatnik painter, a singer, a young doctor whose practice hasn't taken off, a rich boy slumming, and miscellaneous others all bounce off the walls in a very youth-culture oriented apartment house. Things get pretty frenzied.
Un novio para dos hermanas
Fernando Martínez Dávila
Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.
Los perversos a-go-go
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Acapulco a go-gó
Teen-romance comedy with unrelated dramatic subplots.
Un Latin lover en Acapulco
Alfredo
Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
Lanza tus penas al viento
Gustavo
Four guys share an apartment while attending art-school.
¿Qué haremos con papá?
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
Tirando a gol
Pedro
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.
Fiebre de juventud
Joselito vagabundo
Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets Anita, a young aristocrat to whom Frank attempted to rob. And because she feels sympathy for him, the boy will have the opportunity to change his life and leave the country to make a deal with a rich heir, Fernando de Ponce, which proposes Rene to supplant him before his old aunt, who does not know him.
Black Wind
Ingeniero Julio
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Los asesinos del karate
Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
The Gangster
Pedro
An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
Lawless Youth
Jorge Ordorica
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
Amor de adolescente
Raúl Linares
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Gallina, interno
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Ghost Town
Rio Kid
A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.
Heaven and Earth
Greñas
Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Jóvenes y bellas
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
Jóvenes y rebeldes
Denis
Mañana serán hombres
Film-director assigned to making a teenaged-hoodlums crime drama, agonizes over the positive social message he wants his film to convey. Meanwhile, his young actors all have their own melodramas running...
Vacaciones en Acapulco
Pepe
A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
Peligros de juventud
Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
La edad de la tentación
By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined
El mil amores
Ricardo Rodríguez
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
La segunda mujer
Couple with preteen children break up; Dad meets a new woman and they marry. The children grow up, and they're spoiled-y rich kids flirting with criminal lawlessness. Cue the violins.