Emilio Echevarría

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.

When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a critical stage, she races to secure the insurance company’s approval for the care that can help him.

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.

There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscience) and commit a transgression (murder and infidelity). When the lights come on, conscious of what they have done, they must atone for their sin.

Insects mate, stories are born. The concept of “love” gets put under the looking glass in this captivatingly maverick film. Manuel, a lonely 36-year-old, begins an unusual friendship with the much younger Alma. A young foreign couple set out on an idyllic backpacking trip in Costa Rica. A Mexico City taxi driver visits a dive bar where he meets a sexy lounge singer. Vicente runs into an old classmate from high school and has something profound to share with her. Meanwhile, throughout the film, different couples speak about their relationships and thoughts

Lucia must find new meaning in her life in order to move forward after a suicide attempt.Dealing with her grief over the death of her son,she establishes new ties and notices small miracles.An encounter and unexpected journey open up the space for her to understand that she can continue to live and to discover that eternity resides in a single instant.

It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. The country is concerned. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation parallel to the official government issued one. But another expert agent, el Seco, has received orders to wipe out all witnesses and get rid of the evidence surrounding the candidate's murder. As Andrés begins putting the pieces of this intricate puzzle together and comes closer to the truth, he realizes he's also putting his life and that of his loved ones in peril.

To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, decides to gift himself with an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. Rosa Cabarcas, his old friend as a brothel madam arranges him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who sells her virginity to support her family, but when he sees her sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.

Beto wakes up in his apartment not knowing where or who he is. He does not remember anything from his past. On the floor is a passport in the name of Marcelo Peralta. Trying to regain memory and their own lives, reveals a number of elements that will be intertwined with each other in unexpected course of events, such as theft, fraud and passionate love.

Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena's husband Gustavo - a professor of architecture - cannot cope with his wife's bones poking him during intimate moments so he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.

Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a 22-year-old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life.

モロッコを旅行中のアメリカ人夫婦のリチャードとスーザンが、突然何者かによって銃撃を受け、妻が負傷するという事件が起こる。同じころ、東京に住む聴覚に障害を持った女子高生のチエコは、満たされない日々にいら立ちを感じながら、孤独な日々を過ごしていた。

1836年の春、エルアラモの古い使命であったサンアントニオデベハルの近くで、約200人のテキサス人がメキシコ大統領で陸軍指揮官のアントニオロペスデサンタアンナ将軍の包囲に13日間抵抗しました。 テキサンズの指揮官は、若くて無謀なウィリアム・トラヴィス大佐、暴力的で情熱的なジェームズ・ボウイ、伝説のデビッド・クロケットだった。 戦闘で死ななかった人々は、サンタアンナの命令によって処刑されました。 「アラモを覚えて」はサム・ヒューストン将軍の戦いの叫び声になり、ついにテキサスをメキシコから独立させ、連合のもう一つの州になった。

ボンドは北朝鮮側の非武装地帯にある基地で、アフリカから不正輸出されたダイヤモンドと引き換えに武器の密輸を行なっていたムーン大佐抹殺の任務を遂行した直後、彼の父であるムーン将軍に捕らわれ、長きに渡る監禁・拷問を受ける。 14ヶ月後、中華人民共和国の諜報員3名を殺害したのち、逮捕されたムーン大佐の側近のザオとの捕虜交換が行われ、ようやくMのもとに戻れたボンドは思いがけない言葉を耳にする。それは00（ダブルオー）ナンバーの剥奪だった。1週間前に北朝鮮内部に潜り込んでいたアメリカの工作員が処刑され、ボンドが居た収容所から情報が発信された事から、北朝鮮での拷問でボンドが機密事項を洩らしたのが原因だと疑うアメリカはこれ以上の情報漏れを恐れザオとの交換でボンドを連れ戻したのだという。ボンドを疑うMは、ボンドの00ナンバー剥奪という決断に至ったのだ。 この結果に納得のいかないボンドは、自らのプライドと00ナンバーを取り戻すべく単身でMたちのもとから脱出。香港を拠点に活動する中国の諜報員ミスター・チャンの協力のもと、ザオがキューバに潜伏中との情報をつかみ、キューバに飛ぶ。そこでアメリカ国家安全保障局（NSA）の諜報員ジンクスと遭遇する。

Alberto resorts to disturbing and extravagant practices to break through the shell of his loneliness and fulfill his desires.

A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.

幼なじみのフリオとテノッチは17歳の高校生。溢れるエネルギーを持て余し気味の二人が考えることといえばセックスのことばかり。ところが、肝心のガールフレンドたちは旅行に出かけてしまい、せっかくの夏を何をするでもなく過ごしていた。そんなある日、親戚の結婚式で二人は年上の女性ルイサと知り合う。彼女をドライブに誘うためダメもとで“天国の口”という在りもしないビーチの名を口にする二人。ところが、数日後、夫の浮気を知ったルイサはテノッチに一緒にドライブ旅行に行くと告げる。慌てる二人だったが、チャンスとばかりルイサを連れアテのない旅に出るのだった……。

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.

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.

Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.

Two Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s

16世紀、ある錬金術師によって作り出された金色の奇妙なスカラベ。永遠の命をもたらす「クロノス」と呼ばれる謎の精密機械だった。時は流れて現代、骨董商ヘススは売り物の天使像の中からクロノスを発見し手に乗せたとたん突然動き、彼の手に食い込むと長い針を刺し液体を注入した。不死を得ようとクロノスを探す病床の大富豪デ・ラ・グァルディアは、甥アンヘルから発見の報せを受ける。孫娘アウロラの不安をよそにクロノスの虜となっていくヘススは次第に若返っていくが、同時に血への渇望も沸き起こっていた。

A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life

The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity

A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.

A Mexican romance by Dana Rotberg.