Friend 1
Вернувшись в Испанию после долгого пребывания в Америке, семья юной Регины поселяется в старом величественном особняке, пустовавшем почти 40 лет. Вскоре ее младшему брату начинает казаться, что в холодных стенах их нового дома присутствует кто-то невидимый и страшный. Пугающие, необъяснимые события и странное поведение отца семейства подсказывают детям, что их мрачная обитель хранит некую зловещую тайну. Близится солнечное затмение. Поставит ли тьма точку в их бесконечных кошмарах или навсегда погрузит их в бездну всепоглощающего ужаса?
George Hanson
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
Jimmy
The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
Writer
The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading articles from Ricardo Flores Magon in newspaper Regeneration, organize clandestinely and mutiny against the US, owner of the mine, which is refuses to rescue a group of workers trapped by a landslide.
Writer
The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.
Coyote
Клаудия Берналь прибыла в США, беременная от своего любовника-кинорежиссера Фелипе, который поселил ее в доме на берегу моря. После того, как его жена узнает, она нанимает мужчин, чтобы изнасиловать Клаудию и сфотографировать акт. В итоге Клаудию арестовывают и по обвинению в проституции и нелегальном пребывании на территории США депортируют обратно в Мексику, а ребенка отдают Фелипе. Теперь Клаудия хочет только одного – вернуться в США за своим сыном, ради этого она готова на все.
Gustavo
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.
Teniente Díaz
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Valentín, capataz
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
Writer
In the future, a couple hides from their pursuers in the archaeological ruins of Tulúm, on the beaches of Cozumel, and in the hubbub of a day out in an indigenous town.
Fidencio Soto
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
In a neighborhood of Mexico City, inhabit different characters. From a hardened general, suffering from delusions of persecution, to a recruit; two brothers dedicated to teaching music; two treasure hunters restless, and a friendly concierge who lives with her son, the popular Gordolfo Gelatino.