Bandidos
In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival.
Luis Estrada
Director
Also Directed by Luis Estrada
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.
Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daughter. Lila is kidnapped by drug dealers and Juan feels responsible for her. He takes the long way to Tijuana to rescue Lila. (Written by Maximiliano Maza [email protected])
It is a film that pretends to be a metaphor for an entire country and that questions our values, desires, and, above all, our idiosyncrasies; all this with a lot of black humor and framed in that little personal hell to which we all belong and that, for better or for worse, we all have: Family
