Carlos has an empty belly and tries to dominate nature by obeying it. The only two pigs in his village are seductive meat. He already has the table set, without knowing that the pig affection will tell him what the pantheons are full of.
Urbieta
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
Many stories of families within an urban complex.
After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.
Voceador
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
José
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
Alcalde Alfredo García
En el año 1949 los habitantes de la localidad de San Pedro de los Saguaros decapitan de un machetazo a su alcalde cuando trataba de huir del pueblo con el dinero de las arcas municipales. El licenciado López, secretario del gobernador, decide nombrar a Juan Vargas, encargado de un basurero y antiguo militante del P.R.I., como nuevo alcalde hasta las próximas elecciones en las que él es firme aspirante a la gubernatura del estado. Vargas afronta su misión con las mejores intenciones, hasta que poco a poco va descubriendo los beneficios del poder y la corrupción.
Nerón
Infidelidad y sus consecuencias, separaciones y reconciliaciones, promiscuidad y continencia, deseos y rechazos; pero sobre todo, la búsqueda desesperada del amor entre 6 jóvenes, 3 chicas y 3 chicos, en dos apartamentos en el corazón de Ciudad de México. Los hombres terminan en un piso y las mujeres en el otro, y desde ellos, se espían mutuamente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.
When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is assisted by his photographer girlfriend María, and they are trapped in a web of torture, prostitution, corruption and power struggle.
Galán 1
"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
De Luca
Historia de un millonario que inventa su muerte para descubrir qué tanto lo quieren sus allegados.
Paciente
One couple (Carlos & Irene) are having troubles, because he suspects that Irene's hiding something about her past in Russia. To make things worst her ex-husband goes to Mexico and tells Carlos that her other ex-husband also is going to claim her as his property.
Mr. Copland
En el Salón México, el más popular salón de baile de la capital en la década de los 30, un crimen se cometió y hay dos cadáveres, el de la bailarina Mercedes y el de su amante, el ladrón Paco. El inspector Castellón cierra el establecimiento e interroga a todos los involucrados en el caso: la otra amante de Paco, 'Almendrita'; la mejor amiga de Mercedes, ‘La Jaibita’; el policía Guadalupe Salazar, quien quiso casarse con Mercedes, y el compositor americano Aaron Copland, quien se encuentra en el lugar trabajando su pieza Suite Salón México.
Simple mortal es una película mexicana producida en 1996. Fue dirigida por Christian González y contó con la actuación de Luis de Icaza, Rafael Rojas, Leticia Sabater, Regina Torné, Francisco Bojórquez.
La niña chilindrina debe recoger en un pueblo una joya que ha heredado. En el viaje extravía a su abuela y luego la encuentra. Al llegar al pueblo se entera de que un lejano tío suyo, un torpe gángster, robó la joya, pero la recupera por casualidad y el tío y sus cómplices confiesan su delito. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tango Student
Cronos es un artefacto creado por un alquimista medieval, en cuyo interior se encuentra instalado un insecto, que se alimenta de sangre y tiene el poder de ofrecer la eterna juventud. Premiada película con excelentes críticas.
During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way in the mountains of Hidalgo when they try to take a short cut. With their van in need of repairs, they are stranded in a village where a local boss, Don Elias, pays peasants to log the forest illegally. The five collegians have little sensitivity to village ways and are shocked to be treated as foreigners in their own country. When two of them witness assaults on the town's priest and on a harmless simpleton, and when Don Elias frames the troupe for murder, their cries of innocence fall on deaf ears. Vigilantes call for their deaths and give chase. Will anyone help them?
Bigot
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.)
Mateo Mateos
El joven publicista, yuppie y casanova Tomás Tomás sufrirá una macabra venganza cuando la enfermera Silvia, una de sus conquistas, escribe "positivo" en sus análisis de SIDA. Mientras busca una manera rápida de morir, Tomás se enamora de la sobrecargo Clarisa, quien también quiere suicidarse porque su amante está teniendo un affair con una sobrecargo de Continental... (FILMAFFINITY)
Ramon
Un piloto de combate de la marina de los Estados Unidos (Kevin Costner) se licencia con honores después de doce años de servicio y decide pasar unas vacaciones en Puerto Vallarta. Allí se hospeda en casa de un viejo amigo (Anthony Quinn) al que una vez salvó la vida y que ahora es un poderoso jefe de la mafia. Durante su estancia, conoce a la bella, enigmática e infeliz esposa de su amigo (Madeleine Stowe). A pesar de la amistad que lo une a su anfitrión, el ex piloto y la mujer viven un apasionado romance, arriesgándose a una sangrienta y brutal venganza.
In San Luis de la Paz, a small and and very poor town in northern Mexico, the priest Father Victorio manages an orphanage with nearly 50 children. He does wrestling, disguised with a golden mask, to get some money for the children. His dream of reconstruct the town begins to see a light when he is invited to become a professional wrestler
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