Max Aub

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?

This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder.

Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.

The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.

Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.

As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.

Um homem é assassinado por uma misteriosa mulher. A polícia prende duas suspeitas: a amante do morto (Sara Montiel, em um de seus primeiros sucessos) e uma respeitável mulher casada (Miroslava Stern), que teve com a vítima um caso antes do casamento. Na prisão, a primeira faz da vida da segunda um verdadeiro inferno.

Nos subúrbios da Cidade do México um grupo de jovens passa os dias cometendo pequenos roubos. Um fugitivo de um reformatório, Jaibo, por ser mais velho e experiente se torna o líder natural deles. Um dia, na presença de Pedro, Jaibo se descontrola e espanca Julian até a morte. Pedro carrega um sentimento de culpa por se considerar cúmplice de Jaibo, que se comporta como se nada tivesse acontecido.

A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.

A European doctor, in self-imposed exile in some place like Borneo, obsesses crazily over a ruling-class white woman.

A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Spanish Civil War, 1937. A platoon of Republican soldiers plans to stop the advance of the rebel troops by bombing a bridge on the road to Zaragoza, near the city of Linás. With the close collaboration of the peasants of the area, the soldiers try to overcome the continuous bombardments and endure the harsh and tireless opposition of the powerful enemy…

Spanish Civil War, 1937. A platoon of Republican soldiers plans to stop the advance of the rebel troops by bombing a bridge on the road to Zaragoza, near the city of Linás. With the close collaboration of the peasants of the area, the soldiers try to overcome the continuous bombardments and endure the harsh and tireless opposition of the powerful enemy…