Pablo
González lives in a dilapidated room in Mexico City, a lost soul in
one of the world’s biggest metropolises. Desperate to be someone
in life—and to pay off his debts—he embarks on a journey into the
increasingly magnetic world of big-box Christianity. Religion seems
to offer a quick path to becoming rich and soon González is willing
to do anything in his power in order to make it happen. A thriller that
evokes the gritty style of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Gonzalez:
The False Prophet is a suspenseful ride through the darker side of
charismatic preachers and upstart religions that flourish on the hardearned
money of desperate people in need of hope.
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.
Fray Papilla
Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century: one night the monks of the San Francisco Abbey find a baby in front of their gate. They call the boy Marcelino and take care of the little one with devotion...
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.
Miguel
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.