Evangelina Martínez
História
Evangelina Martínez é uma atriz mexicana.
Socorro
A couple arrives to an apartment complex where santeria and witchcraft are common practice.
A funny romantic comedy in which a male writer who signs with a woman's pseudonym falls for a female journalist who with man's pseudonym. When love comes almost always takes us by surprise and nobody can object.
Juanita
Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same week her beloved grandmother becomes gravely ill. Spending her last days at her grandmother's side, Ema is forced to spend time with her estranged, larger than life mother, getting to know her and seeing her with new eyes. As she spends time with the people gathered around her grandmother in her last days; Ema re-evaluates her beliefs, her fears and her set ideas about family, love and parenthood.
Damiana / maid (old)
O velho El Sabio é jornalista num pequeno povoado do México. Solteiro convicto, nunca conseguiu se relacionar a fundo com uma mulher desde a morte de sua mãe. As mulheres de sua vida foram sempre prostitutas. Agora, às vésperas do seu aniversário de 90 anos, ele resolve se dar um presente: uma noite de amor com uma adolescente virgem. Ele faz o pedido à dona do bordel que frequenta desde a juventude, que lhe apresenta uma jovem de 14 anos.
Luisa
The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with cancer having a love affair to the love between two teenagers who try to make love for the first time or to the burning desire of a cop who is bewitched by cupid.
Mrs. Fuentes
Twenty-four hours before she is set to exchange vows with the man of her dreams, a flustered bride-to-be wakes up next to a complete stranger who claims to be her husband in this south-of-the-border romantic comedy.
Mamá
The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.
Mexican feature film
Señora en Fiesta
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
Sirvienta
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.
Mujer del teniente
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
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.
Eva
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Eugenia
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.
Doña Carmen
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
Rosa
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Miss Linares
Berenice is a young woman with traditional customs who lives with her godmother in a quiet provincial town. The appearance of Rodrigo in his life will cause him a profound and unusual transformation. The calm without major shocks in Aguascalientes turns out to be just a disguise, an illusory cover-up of what will really happen.
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.
Pasajera en camión
Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.
Petrita
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.