Anita Blanch
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.
Rodolfo wants to marry the aristocrat Adriana who rejects him. Humberto, her brother, kills a man for her. Rodolfo attributes the crime to the gypsy Renzo so that Adriana will gratefully marry him. Renzo is sent to the island of the condemned, where he is left for dead.
Extremely loose adaptation of Little Women, set in 1970s; three teenaged girls and a younger sister live alone after the death of their parents.
Desperate for the illness of his son, the farmer steals a pearl Eufemio image of St. Lucia in the village church. Some tourists photographed the theft, and Euphemius is about to be lynched by their neighbors. Pearl disappeared swallowed by one of Chavela breeding pigs, the wife of Eufemio. Tomas's intervention saves Euphemius, but Pearl does not appear.
The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
Doctor and his family move to Mexico City, everybody falls into corrupt Big City lifestyles. Or do they?
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling.
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.
Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
Operetta-style musical comedy with can-can girls and soldiers.
