Alberto Estrella

10 fantastic and dark conversations tell us the story of a Mexican family through the relations and conflicts of two brothers.

Keta is a professional makeup artist with a big butt and large thighs, but she also has big dreams. The truth is that Keta with her overweight, her addiction to marijuana and her pink hair can not get a job anywhere, so she ends up as a drug dealer handing out goods to her neighbor - who is addicted to all kinds of painkillers-, to an actress of soap operas as schizophrenic as a cocaine addict; also going through a swinger couple, a prude housewife, a not so prude nun and a host of characters that will surely make more than one viewer is reflected.

Em uma noite escura e chuvosa, um grupo de oito estranhos fica preso em uma remota estação de ônibus esperando pela condução até a Cidade do México. Coisas estranhas começam a acontecer e eles ficam presos em uma luta pela sobrevivência e sanidade mental.

Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.

Quatro histórias sobre amor e auto-aceitação. Um menino de onze anos se esforça para manter em segredo o afeto que sente pelo primo. Dois amigos de infância se reencontram adultos e iniciam um relacionamento que se complica quando um deles sente medo de ser descoberto. Um longo relacionamento entre dois homens é abalado com a chegada de um terceiro. E um homem de idade com família que é obcecado por um prostituto e tenta levantar o dinheiro para pagar a experiência.

During a murder investigation, the police uncover a human trafficking network that involves a politician the media is protecting.

What could a couple, two girlfriends, two rival gangs, one murderer, and four prisoners have in common? The night will be stained in blood...

Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story is full of drama and misadventures, which Antonio lives without proper orientation and promiscuity.

Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering his artistic vocation, stuff like that.

Javier fica arrasado quando é abandonado pela noiva. Seu psiquiatra não consegue ajudá-lo e ele acaba caindo nos braços de suas ex-namoradas.

A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease.

The repossession of a ranch because of the inability to pay off a mortgage causes a confrontation between two great friends: Valente and Dagoberto. As the last chance to save his patrimony, Valente robs a bank. Dagoberto is ordered to catch him and enforce the law. In the chase, old quarrels between them surface. These friends must face off in a duel under the red sunset of Iturbide, Nuevo León.

No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of these two beings. Of whom the purist feelings alive have resurrected them.

Sebastián e Helena, dois irmãos adolescentes, moram num casarão numa pequena cidade mexicana. Sua mãe está moribunda e os dois vivem encerrados, distantes de tudo. Inseparáveis, eles mantém uma profunda relação de dependência. Até que a mãe morre e Juan, um jovem de classe baixa, surge em suas vidas. A aparição de Juan mexe com os desejos de ambos, obrigando-os a tomar decisões em relação ao amor, ao sexo e à amizade. Para crescerem, os irmãos terão de quebrar o vínculo inseparável que sempre os regeu.

A thriller about four young people who investigate the murder of a woman who worked in the National Archive. They discover that she had stolen documents incriminating an ex president and a high level police officer involved in crimes during the Dirty War.

Diana Golden and Martha Ortiz are the stars of this shocking video in which Juan Carlos; one of the characters learned that being a true macho is imposing your will on others regardless of whether it destroys dignity or feelings. He himself witnessed the mistreatment and outrageous life that his mother suffered as a wife and woman because of his father's machismo. This chain of machismo almost destroyed her life and that of her family. But God has mercy on his life and Juan Carlos finds Jesus and a new life: that of a man transformed into the image of the true man of Christ Jesus.

The Taliban 'is a white woman dealer, but the police are after him and decide to change businesses, he begins to steal cars and then change parts and sell them to the boys who like to do clandestine car races

Uma grande onda de sequestros e criminalidade varre a Cidade do México, fazendo com que muitos de seus cidadãos mais ricos contratem guarda-costas para seus filhos. John Creasy é um ex-agente da CIA. Sem emprego e bebendo mais do que deveria, ele aceita a proposta de ser guarda-costas da pequena Pita, uma garota de 9 anos que é filha de um industrial. O sequestro de Pita faz com que ele, mesmo ferido, parta para resgatá-la a qualquer custo.

A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to achieving what she sets out to do, will use all her weapons to recover what is her own.

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?

Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up friendless, save the family's hired hand Melquíades. Though most figured she would end up as a prostitute, she is married off to Isidro, the local police chief. Cruel and petty, this ogre of a man brutalizes her and eventually infects her with venereal disease, rendering her sterile. With the help of Melquíades, Otilia takes a series of lovers to spite her husband. One day, the wounded Ruben -- a wanted outlaw -- staggers onto her doorstep and immediately she is in love. Much to Melquíades' chagrin, she harbors and tends to the criminal as her husband is out hunting for him.

Conflicted gay man makes contact with the ghost of his boyfriend from teenaged years.

A couple makes love. Nothing seems to be up. Yet they feel guilty... Then we find out why.

The first-born son of a wealthy Mexican businessman, Simon is doted upon by his father, Don Andres. But as Simon grows older, he displays a fondness for dressing in women's clothing and playing with dolls, and is eventually banished from home and disinherited. He then finds work as a performer in a nightclub that his father patronizes. Not recognizing his son as a beautiful young woman, Don Andres discloses some surprising secrets of his own.

They claim to be taken to maximum security prisons, but when government power and corruption intervene there is no impossible escape, such is the case of this story that everyone witnessed and that we now present.

Three prisoners escape from a train or something. And I think they had to go find a treasure. They shoot some people at some point. Also, one of them had a retarded kid that either got shot or shot someone. Most of the movie takes place on a farm with some old people. Maybe they are holding the old people hostage? That's all I remember.

A police commander is framed for murder and he must find the real killer.

Esperanza es una hermosa mujer de treinta y cinco años. Su única hija, Blanca, muere repentina e inesperadamente víctima de una enfermedad desconocida en un hospital. Para evitar la propagación del misterioso virus es sepultada de inmediato, negándosele a Esperanza reconocer el cuerpo. Desde la pérdida de su marido no conocía un dolor tan grande, pero su resistencia a aceptar la muerte, la soledad, y su enorme fe en los milagros confirman en ella la esperanza de que suceda uno. Es entonces cuando San Judas Tadeo, un santito para casos desesperados, se le aparece y le indica un extraño camino para encontrar lo perdido...

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.

Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.

Based on Elena Garro's short story, it's a story where love and loneliness are linked through a hotel room, where a woman awaits for an old and impossible love.

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.

Gilberto Cortés is an actor in a theatre play about a father fighting to save his son from the death penalty. Years later, he faces the same dilemma in real life when his own son is accused of the murder of a child molester.

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

A mexican wrestler's personal life struggles when he loses his fights.

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.

A taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town.

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.

El Mudo, a solitary detective investigates a murder. Alicia is the main suspect, a beautiful woman whose only passion is dancing. The case takes them to a place where love and mystery are no strangers: a Mexico City night club.