Juan Manuel Figueroa

Películas

Infelices para Siempre
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María José y Alfredo están por cumplir 20 años de casados y ya no se soportan. Juntando sus ahorros, sus hijos les regalan un viaje a Puerto Peñasco al mismo hotel en donde celebraron su Luna de Miel. Sin embargo, un hechizo hará que repitan una y otra vez el día de su aniversario hasta que recuerden las razones por las que se casaron.
Estanislao
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Después de 15 años, Mateo regresa a la antigua fábrica textil para despedirse de su madre recientemente fallecida. Por cierto, tendrá que pasar tiempo con su padre alcohólico, a quien no soporta.
Traición
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Felix (56) a criminal boss in the south of Mexico, has always wanted to go to San Francisco so see how drawbridges rise for ships to go through. Misela (23), whose romantic partners die if they make her cry, seeks comfort in her mother and wants to know where she is buried. They are father and daughter, and one must betray the other in order to go on living.
Almacenados
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An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently nothing ever happens.
Distancias Cortas
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Fede is an overweight man, who finds it difficult to move around his own house. One day he finds in photography a way to change his life forever.
Portraits of a Search
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In the Mexican narco-war, thousands of mothers search for their missing sons and daughters. In Portraits of a Search, the stories of Natividad, Guadalupe and Margarita intertwine to convey the different forms of confronting the search and uncertainty: one turns to the FBI, another obtains the Nation´s president´s personal promise, and the other tries to return to her routines so as to save her grandson. A portrait of Mexico today.
Marcelo
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Marcelo feels he's found the incarnation of his favorite superhero in Julio, his troublesome and eccentric neighbor whose biggest dream is to become a porn star, but Mrs. Martha, who still treats her son Marcelo like a kid, will never permit such a relationship to flourish. Emotionally disturbed, she will try to protect the only thing she's got left in the world: her son.
Café Paraíso
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Gallo y Chuy son dos inmigrantes mexicanos que trabajan en la cocina multirracial del Paradise Café, en Los Ángeles. En medio del incesante barullo de la cocina en hora pico, Gallo ensaya su heroica renuncia, con lo que espera recuperar su juventud, su dignidad y hasta ganar el amor de Susan, una mesera gringa. Pero las cosas no son lo que parecen en el Paradise Café, donde la realidad se torna ficción y la ficción realidad.
Los Ladrones Viejos: Las Leyendas del Artegio
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Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their distinctive code of ethics, the various categories of delinquents inhabiting the city’s streets, their alliances with high ranking police officials that allowed them to operate, the betrayals that followed, and the price they ended up paying.
El día menos pensado
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¿Qué pasaría si la ciudad más grande del mundo se quedara sin agua limpia? La situación es retratada a través de los ojos de una pareja madura que se resiste a dejar su casa y que defiende una punta de pistola sus últimas gotas de agua.
La canción del pulque
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Portrait of daily life and its inhabitants at the pulquería “La Pirata”. A homage to all those who drink pulque, to ranchera music, to the “barrio” and to pulque.