Blanca Guerra

Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.

After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother Rosalinda's life.

Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.

A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.

Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldier he escapes with the help of Juan Escopeta, a gunman for hire. Together they travel through a country absorbed in civil war in search of Gapo’s older and only brother: a famed revolutionary outlaw.

A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.

Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.

Every abandoned woman has dreamed of taking revenge on her husband. Fate gives Eva that possibility. On the first anniversary of running away to find the love of a younger woman, Joaquín, her ex-husband, has to return to the family home temporarily disabled. Eva will be in charge of taking care of him. A film about women's fear of abandonment and men's fear of impotence.

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.

Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the 19th century president of Mexico who, in 1847, waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory

Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.

In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town

In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.

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.

A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband.

A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.

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 young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.

Wandering gunslinger trains peaceable farmers to defend themselves for an impending range war.

Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Two secret police officers fight against drug dealers and a sadistic criminal who executes the mafia's enemies.

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.

Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.

Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained frenzy.

Man and woman get married, they adapt to living together and he adapts to living with her four children.

Cocaine industry in the Colombian outback.

Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police.

A poor family hits the lottery.

Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.

Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.

The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.

Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress.

Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile potion. Petronila begins to delude Encarnacion with suggestions that she is actually a "segua" or a female spirit that attacks men.

Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.

A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover.

Young woman engineers a reconciliation between her long-estranged parents.

An archaeologist travels to Mexico to investigate rumors of the discovery of the ancient statue of a fertility goddess.

A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.

Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.

(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

Parody of the Zorro-styled "noble bandit" story.

Revolution-era Mexico: two well-known bandits hook up, then join forces with an outlaw woman.

Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family.

Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981

A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.

Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.

A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago.

A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...

In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.