Alma Muriel

Young Gloria is abused by the Vitorina, hospice caretaker hosting it. She forces her to perform the heaviest tasks. Gloria is only happy in music class. When she grows decides to escape, and now she lives on the street with another girl, both singing in the trucks and try to survive.

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo?

Young dancer joins the cast of a musical-comedy production, falls in love with young comic actor.

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.

Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.

Одержимая поисками своего бывшего парня, 25-летняя Гумер выходит из тюрьмы в Барселоне, одном из самых популярных портовых городов Европы за незаконный оборот наркотиков и проституцию. Чаро, ее лучший друг, пытается ей помочь, хотя она не свободна, так как зависит от своего сутенера «Тони». Но Гумер уговорит Чаро бросить Тони и вместе с другими друзьями сформировать группу, чтобы начать собственное дело.

Domestic melodrama about infidelity set against an illegal immigration/"making a better life" background.

Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience members.

Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.

Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.

Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc...

Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!