Casts & Crew
Also Directed by José Luis García Agraz
Fortuna is a Mexican Spanish language telenovela produced by Argos Television for Cadena Tres. It stars Andrés Palacios and Lisette Morelos.
Director José Luis García Agraz, an independent filmmaker, opens this fast-paced drama with a murder and in flashbacks tells the story of how the assassin, Rodrigo Saracho (Gonzalo Vega) was caught in circumstances slightly beyond his control and left with no way out except to descend further and further down the moral scale. The man remembers how he began as an aspiring boxer in Mexico City, innocent of the seamier side of the ring, and how crime bosses slowly involve him first in a few "minor" transgressions, such as throwing a fight, and then in ever-more-serious criminal activity.
Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome soldier, Nicolas (from 1863), instead of her own reflection. It soon becomes obvious that he can see Susana as clearly as she can see him - and life, for them both, is never quite the same again. Contains three shorts as a trilogy: The Two Way Mirror (El espejo de dos lunas) 1990, 0:29:23 With You from a Distance (Contigo en la distancia) 1991, 0:27:38 Saturday Night Thief (Ladrón de sábado) 1996, 0:24:57
A minor jungle adventure in which a singer (Linnea Quigley) is held captive by whitewashed Central American natives who worship her because she looks like their idol. Or maybe it's because she also looks a little like Goldie Hawn. At any rate, she is rescued by her friends and they outleg the tribesmen and a horde of pirates to stumble across, what else, a lost treasure.
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.
It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies.
An unseen person enters a taxi late at night. Suddenly the taxi driver is stabbed with a large metal knitting needle. From there we meet our female killer. Catalina is a very plain Jane looking young lady. She wears some geeky glasses and usually dresses very conservatively. She lives with her grandmother and they both seem to loathe men. Catalina’s grandmother mentions that her late daughter/Catalina’s mother was troubled by men and that cost her her life. Catalina and her mother resemble each other. At night, Catalina awakens by the vengeful spirit of her mother to advise her to go out and kill men. The kind that only want to take advantage.
He drinks too much, his primary relationship just ended, and he can't finish his screenplay.
Direct-to-video horror anthology.
