Pedro is a single man in his forties who likes to party, has no children and lives at night. Everything changes when he meets Alin. She mentions to him that she is looking for her dad and that there is a high probability that it is him.
Don Lauro Márquez Castillo
A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.
Comandante Porfirio Narvaez
Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the police. Thanks to this performance are "hired" by Mr. Mauricio Tavares to play a practical joke on dangerous Don Antonio Robledo, a senior executive who suffer a fictional kidnapping for later culminate in a surprise party.
Three young women live, suffer and enjoy themselves in Ciudad Juárez. They are alike in terms of their origin, they all come from the lower classes, however, Chuya, Cata and "La Güera" have their own environments, their own families and their own personalities. This triangular story shows some crucial moments in their lives: their first love, their first sexual encounter, their first pregnancy, their first disappointment, which take place in a reality that is sordid, but always vital.
Pollo
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Don Pepe
A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
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'Love Is Betrayal' - 옥타비오와 수잔나. 형수인 수잔나를 사랑하는 옥타비오는 형의 행패를 참지 못하고, 수잔나와 고향을 떠나기로 결심한다. 여비 마련을 위해 애견 코피를 투견 판에 내보내 돈을 모으지만, 수잔나는 형과 함께 모아놓은 돈을 가지고 사라지고, 투견 판에서 옥타비오에게 연패를 당한 갱단의 음모에 휘말리게 되는데... 'Love Is Selfishness' - 다니엘과 발레리아. 유부남 다니엘은 가족을 떠나 유명모델 발레리아와 새 보금자리를 꾸민다. 이사를 축하하는 날, 발레리아는 치명적인 교통사고를 당해 다리를 다친다. 그러던 중 발레리아의 개 리치가 마루바닥에 갇히자, 발레리아는 점점 히스테릭 해지고, 다리 상태는 심하게 악화된다. 다니엘과 발레리아 둘은 사랑의 환멸과 절망을 떠맡을 수 밖에 없는 운명에 처한다. 'Love Is Hope' - 엘 치보와 마루. 엘 치보는 과거 공산주의 게릴라였고, 수 년간 감옥생활을 지낸 후, 삶에 회의를 느끼고 살인청부업자가 된다. 전처의 죽음을 우연히 알게 되면서 잊고 지냈던 딸 마루에 대한 사랑과 회한으로 그녀 주위를 맴돌던 중, 또 다른 살인청부를 의뢰 받는다. 한 편, 끔찍한 교통사고현장에서 옥타비오의 개 코피를 발견하고, 몰래 데려와 치료를 해주는데.
A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.
José Pavan
Nacho / Trobas
Sentimental comedy about ups and downs in a working-class neighborhood.
A female doctor uses the body of a young playboy to insert him the brain of his teacher, an eminent physician who she loves, in order to perpetuate his life. But something goes wrong and this broken Jesus with superhuman strength escapes and hides to avoid showing his deformity. Disguised with a wrestler's mask and cape, circumstances lead him to undertake a heroic journey.
Transito López
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good for nothing, and took refuge in the cabaret ends up working as a transvestite.
Cautín
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
Compadre #1 (segment "Los Compadres")
A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover.
Mexican feature film
Parody of the Zorro-styled "noble bandit" story.
Tirantes
Manuel
Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.
After 42 years of working as an antiquarian , Abel is fired by the children of his recently deceased employer; however, after this unexpected situation that leaves him in solitude and with little chance to get a new job, he decides to start again as antiques dealer in the popular Lagunilla market . There he will find real friends ; a humble life and, above all , a new opportunity to fall in love regardless of social differences.
Transito Perez "El Milusos"
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
Marcos de la Tijerilla
Champion racehorse is kidnapped, ends up on a ranch in Durango, running dirt-road races at the county fair.
An undercover policewoman tracks seven escaped convicts to the deserted island where they've set up a camp.
Three truckdriving pals drink a lot and raise hell.
Owners of two small farms try to move forward in life by wholesaling their own produce instead of relying on dishonest brokerages. When that doesn't work, they hatch a kidnapping scheme, and the movie shifts its focus to the rich people who have been profiting off their poverty.
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Raul
Young Guadalupe and her boyfriend love music. She plays flute and he plays clarinet. On Sundays, after attending mass, they give concerts in their parishes. Salome is a young girl who dances salsa every night. All the men who frequent the room where she dances fall in love with her, especially Raúl, a mechanic convinced that his love is impossible, but it turns out that Guadalupe and Salomé are the same person and their love is realized, in spite of the clarinetist.
The town's leading families decide to step down and let average citizens take responsibility for city government, from Mayor on down.
Pancho
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
Burócrata
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers.
An east-coast financier is touring the far west via stagecoach; in Nogales AZ, his son is kidnapped and three rival groups of black hats try to profit from the situation.
Additional Dialogue
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Various Roles
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Massively built dock-worker has beef with munitions-smuggling gang, and meanwhile he's recruited to perform as a lucha-libre wrestler.
Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation.
David
Mónica, the manager and wife of singer Álex, plans a publicity stunt that goes awry. When her husband shoots a rival singer with a gun supposedly filled with blanks, the singer is killed with live ammo. Álex and Mónica then goes into hiding while trying to find out who set them up.
Gregorio
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
Pandillero
Rich man who owns an island sanctuary is involved in some shady business. Meanwhile, his daughter... and also meanwhile, the tribe of hippies that are racing around on dune buggies...
Rich man who owns an island sanctuary is involved in some shady business. Meanwhile, his daughter... and also meanwhile, the tribe of hippies that are racing around on dune buggies...
Othón Quiñones
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway.
El Pato
A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
Gustavo Santoyo (Gus)
El Chino
A couple is involved in a seduction game to get out of the monotony of their marriage.
A plane blows up shortly after take-off during the credits. Then flashbacks detail the stories of all the passengers who booked flights on it.
Armodio Horcasitas
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
Eduardo (segment "Isabel")
Anthology movie -- three anecdotes relating to liberated, post-sixties, sexual behavior. Swinging couples, hippie-style free-love, etc...
Filandrio
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
Mario
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
Every time the newlyweds think they'll be able to consummate their marriage, some obstacle comes up. Months go by... Sequel to "Adios, cunado."
Marcelino
A Spanish singer, known as "El Ángel", owner of a nightclub, lives a double life as an expert in alarms for gangs of thieves. In his last robbery, he betrays his partners, and his lover is kidnapped and he is blackmailed. Thinking that she has betrayed him, he abandons her to her fate. Finally, she committed suicide. El Ángel reconsiders his life and decides to become a monk. But his former life will meet him within the walls of the monastery.
Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.
Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
Strait-laced teacher at a girl's school unleashes his wild side when he debuts as a pop singer in his spare time.
Pantaleón Requejo
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
Young men in the forestry service bust up an illegal logging cartel being run out of City Hall while pairing off with young ladies of the town.
Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."
A beatnik painter, a singer, a young doctor whose practice hasn't taken off, a rich boy slumming, and miscellaneous others all bounce off the walls in a very youth-culture oriented apartment house. Things get pretty frenzied.
Alejandro
Four guys share an apartment while attending art-school.
Quick-draw dude helps to protect a woman and her pa from predatory land-grabbing land-grabbers when they discover a silver mine on their ranch.
Quick-drawing cowboy hero, first in series. (See also:Frontera sin ley.)
Padre
Two boys and two girls hook up at the big festival in a neighboring town. Once they get back home they have to deal with their families' plans for them, which may not include their new sweethearts.
Modisto
Five young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.
Post-adolescent romance; the dude and the chick both tried to impress each other by pretending to come from rich families, and eventually they'll both have to fess up. Also other complications.
Series western: decent guy with young son takes the rap for a bank robbery; justice-dude and sidekick smoke out his accomplices and the mastermind to clear the first guy's record.
Local rowdies roll a drunk and get away with his life savings. Felipe Reyes El Justiciero rides into town on his faithful sidekick Macario and sets things aright.
Timid city-boy hires two cowboy roughnecks to help him get out of an arranged marriage.
Two young charros have been playing the field, and each one has three potential fiancees lined up... Now that it's time to get serious and move toward marriage, the women start politicking among themselves to discredit each other.
Masked hero El enmascarado de oro faces a criminal that turns invisible.
