Luis de Icaza

Carlos has an empty belly and tries to dominate nature by obeying it. The only two pigs in his village are seductive meat. He already has the table set, without knowing that the pig affection will tell him what the pantheons are full of.

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

Many stories of families within an urban complex.

After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.

In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.

Um zelador que se tornou prefeito de uma cidadezinha perdida no deserto do México percebe aonde o seu recém-adquirido poder e a corrupção podem levá-lo, depois da visita de um esperto político.

O intelectual Carlos aparentemente não está sendo carinhoso o suficiente com Ana, sua esposa. Após muitos anos viajando, Tomas, um amigo do casal, reaparece para visitá-los. Enquanto isso, no apartamento da frente, a insatisfeita Andrea e Miguel, seu marido mulherengo, recebem Maria em sua casa. A presença dos convidados na vida dos dois casais acaba despertando sentimentos reprimidos e reflexões sobre a vida amorosa de todos.

Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.

When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is assisted by his photographer girlfriend María, and they are trapped in a web of torture, prostitution, corruption and power struggle.

"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.

One couple (Carlos & Irene) are having troubles, because he suspects that Irene's hiding something about her past in Russia. To make things worst her ex-husband goes to Mexico and tells Carlos that her other ex-husband also is going to claim her as his property.

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.

A menina Chiquinha vai para uma cidade pegar um anel que herdou de uma velha senhora. Quando ela chega na cidade, ela descobre que um malfeitor que é parente distante da velha senhora, roubou o anel, mas ela o recupera, conseguindo despistar os bandidos. Estes a perseguem por todos os lugares da cidade.

Em 1536, o alquimista Humberto Oganelli desembarcou em Veracruz, no México. Lá ele criou um objeto de ouro chamado Cronos, que concede vida eterna a quem o detém. Quatro séculos depois, a queda de parte de um prédio gera algumas vítimas. Entre elas está um homem de pele estranha, alquimista. As autoridades localizam sua residência, mas jamais divulgam o que encontraram no local. Após uma rápida investigação, o conteúdo da mansão é leiloado. Com isso Cronos chega às mãos de um vendedor de antiguidades que, acidentalmente, dispara seu mecanismo. De seu interior sai uma aranha, que injeta no corpo de seu portador um estranho líquido. Aos poucos ele percebe que seu corpo está rejuvenescendo, mas também passa a ter uma obsessão por sangue.

During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way in the mountains of Hidalgo when they try to take a short cut. With their van in need of repairs, they are stranded in a village where a local boss, Don Elias, pays peasants to log the forest illegally. The five collegians have little sensitivity to village ways and are shocked to be treated as foreigners in their own country. When two of them witness assaults on the town's priest and on a harmless simpleton, and when Don Elias frames the troupe for murder, their cries of innocence fall on deaf ears. Vigilantes call for their deaths and give chase. Will anyone help them?

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Um jovem yuppie e mulherengo (Gimenez Cacho) é pego em uma armadilha quando é falsamente diagnosticado com o vírus da Aids por Silvia (Liubomirova), uma enfermeira que se vê traída pelo jovem Casanova. À procura de uma morte rápida (colocando a cabeça em um forno de microondas) Tomás se apaixona por Clarisa (Ramirez), uma linda aeromoça que também quer se suicidar por causa de seu amante que está tendo um caso com uma aeromoça loira da Continental Airlines.

Após 12 anos um piloto da marinha, Michael J. Cochran (Kevin Costner), se aposenta. Ele resolve ir até o México para encontrar Tiburon "Tibby" Mendez (Anthony Quinn), um grande amigo que se tornou um poderoso negociante e uma espécie de "chefão" da região onde vive, ou seja, o tipo de pessoa que é muito perigoso confrontar. É exatamente isto que Cochran faz ao se apaixonar por Mireya (Madeleine Stowe), a bela, sensual e jovem esposa de Tibby. Ela se sente atraída por ele e Cochran sabe que Tibby é poderoso, vingativo, possessivo e que não tolera traição.

In San Luis de la Paz, a small and and very poor town in northern Mexico, the priest Father Victorio manages an orphanage with nearly 50 children. He does wrestling, disguised with a golden mask, to get some money for the children. His dream of reconstruct the town begins to see a light when he is invited to become a professional wrestler

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film