Keeper
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.
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
Rosa
Drama - Hailed as the first film to portray the Chicano experience -- and the first Chicano film to be financed by the Mexican government -- Raíces de Sangre tells the story of immigrant workers exploited on both sides of the border. Facing unsafe conditions, a group of young Chicano workers tries to organize for better conditions but are thwarted by their own co-workers who've accepted bribes from the Americans in turn for stymieing the effort. - Richard Yniguez, León Singer, Enrique Muñoz
En la cárcel de Lecumberri, tres presos drogadictos arman un plan para que la madre de uno de ellos introduzca droga al penal. El plan funciona y cuando ellos celebran son descubiertos y encerrados en "el apando", la celda de castigo. Las protestas por la situación de los "apandados" provoca una sangrienta trifulca.
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Basada en hechos reales sucedidos en México en septiembre de 1968, cinco jóvenes empleados de la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla intentan escalar el volcán La Malinche pero, debido al mal tiempo, no tienen éxito y tienen que refugiarse en un pueblo cercano llamado San Miguel Canoa. Debido a la paranoia religiosa vivida en el pueblo en gran medida incitada por el párroco local, el pueblo los confunde con radicales comunistas...
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
