Alonso Echánove

When his father passes away, Juan Pablo inherits his guitar. Decided to continue his father's legacy, he abandons his career and becomes a mariachi.

A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this happen, he cuts a deal with his family, who require a dead body to pose as a double. Topillero is responsible of executing the plan. But on this journey he is reunited with his wife and son, whom he abandoned years ago.

Cualquier persona, a cualquier edad puede enamorarse. No existen condiciones ni límites para sentir atracción por otro ser. Cuatro Lunas nos presenta cuatro historias, en las que hombres de diferentes generaciones descubren el amor, y los temores que éste puede conllevar. Un chico enamorado en secreto de su primo, dos jóvenes universitarios enfrentando el temor de aceptarse, una pareja de años amenazada por la llegada de un tercero y un anciano obsesionado con un joven prostituto son los ejes de esta película que retrata el enamoramiento en sus distintas facetas.

Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"

Los Botero, una familia de la clase media mexicana, luchan contra la pobreza tras la muerte del padre. Doña Ignacia, la madre, decide sacrificar el futuro de sus tres hijos mayores y proteger a Gabrielito, el menor, en quien ha depositado todas sus esperanzas para que devuelva la fortuna a la familia.

Virginia y Nacho, matrimonio de escasos recursos, viven precariamente de sus raquíticos sueldos, insuficientes para mantener a su hijo de nueve años de edad. Hasta que la fortuna les sonríe y Nacho se gana un auto ultimo modelo. Sin embargo a veces es mejor que la suerte no te sonría.

Jacqueline (Bonilla) and Nicolas (Echanove) are so in love that they decide to get married "until death takes them apart". When love dies and infidelity takes its place, Jacqueline decides there's no time to fulfill the promise of their votes. She begins to plot her husband's murder, but destiny is committed to surprise her in many ways.

Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame.

A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.

Claudio, a womanizer, contracts AIDS due to his promiscuous lifestyle, and, in the hospital, he meets Mauricio, a homosexual Evangelist who is also infected and will discover Jesus to Claudio.

Life unravels when famous radio talk-show host Carmen (Sylvia Pinal) discovers she has just months to live. To tie up the loose ends of her life, she hires a chauffeur to drive her around Mexico City and visit her old haunts. But he does far more than that; instead, he gives her life a much-needed spark and shows her the road to happiness. Alonso Echanove and Raul Araiza Jr. co-star.

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Two reformatory kids grow up and become movers in the drug trade.

In this film festival favourite, every day is magical in the tiny logging town of San Miguel de Cruces, Mexico, thanks to director Juan Antonio de la Riva, who captures the rhythms of small-town life through the stories of its inhabitants. From a young couple facing separation as the husband prepares to seek work in the United States to a pair of teens on the cusp of adulthood to the local movie theatre operator struggling to stay open after the introduction of satellite dishes, Pueblo de madera portrays a town—and a people—in transition.

Rodrigo and Mariano plot a robbery; Rodrigo's station wagon will be the get away car. They dream of their wealth to be. A triangle is established when a whore appears, creating a relation of treason and mistrust amongst them. The prostitute and the drunkard rob Rodrigo and Mariano, leaving them without their dream and everything else.

Between chargers, noise and improvisedly placed furniture, a couple experiences a violent marital crisis, ignoring that they are observed by many characters that will soon face them with their own demons. Inspired by a work by Vicente Leñero, Gabriel Retes orchestrates a portrait without concessions of the hell of the marriage institution and love chaos, made in video format in 1990 and completed by the filmmaker more than a decade later.

The film narrates the discovery of the last great Mayan city, which occurred during the spring of 1946. It is the story of Charles Frey, a smuggler of archaeological pieces who upon hearing some legends about the immense riches that the jungle regions of southeastern Mexico keep, decides to go looking for him. After several months and a point of giving up, Frey detects some archaeological evidence of the Mayan culture, so he continues his explorations until he finds the majestic city of Bonampak.

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship

Francisco Goitia, pintor mexicano, sintiendo la cercanía de su muerte, logra hacer un recuerdo de su vida: el reencuentro con su país y su pueblo, su permanente búsqueda de identidad como hombre y como artista y su lucha contra los demonios del cuerpo y su posterior conversión religiosa.

Luz está en la cárcel, acusada de haber asesinado a sus hijos. El marido y la suegra aseguran que ella los mató premeditadamente. La doctora Rebollar pretende ayudar a la mujer, pero ésta no recuerda nada y piensa que la cárcel es el purgatorio: una etapa previa para llegar al cielo.

Tras escapar de prisión, María se rompe una pierna y es recogida por Julián, un contrabandista. La joven se aloja en una casa de huéspedes pero se va cuando Julián la deja sola por unos días. Después de vagabundear por un tiempo, María se encuentra con su amiga Martha quien la induce a prostituirse. Cómoda en su nueva vida, María parece estar satisfecha pero un impulso la lleva a buscar de nuevo a Julián

Rodrigo Saracho huye después de haber cometido un asesinato. En su huída recuerda las circunstancias que lo orillaron a matar a don Saúl, jefe de un grupo de mafiosos. Rodrigo era un boxeador con mucho futuro que se vió envuelto en el tráfico de drogas. Al querer reiniciar su vida, Rodrigo se da cuenta de que está atrapado y que la única manera de zafarse es por la fuerza.