Ángel Trejo

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

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.

On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.

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.

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

Em 1661, o Barão Vitelius de Astara é sentenciado a ser queimado vivo na Santa Inquisição Mexicana, por bruxaria, necromancia e outros crimes. Antes de morrer, o Barão jura vingança contra os descendentes dos inquisidores. Trezentos anos depois, o mesmo cometa que passara durante sua morte, retorna à Terra trazendo o Barão, na forma de uma criatura monstruosa, que se alimenta de cérebros, pronta para realizar sua vingança...