Ofelia Medina
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
Elisa is an old-fashioned girl who receives the visit of her future self, who advises her to take the risk and invite Carlos, his best friend, on a date. She has always been attracted to him.
Two longtime friends decide to attempt the Guadalupe Reyes challenge, which consist of drinking everyday from December the 12th (Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe) until January the 6th (Epiphany Day, the Feast of The Three Kings).
"No One Will Ever Know" - An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fiction world; to materialize their dreams. Neither inclement reality can stop them.
In this supernatural suspense film, Karen Fisher and Paul Henderson, a young American couple, travel to Chiapas, Mexico on holiday. While there they have an encounter with a witch that changes their lives forever.
In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something. But this case is different because the trip is used as an excuse to illustrate, through documentary techniques, the deep contrasts of Mexican society. Tired of the city, Javier goes to visit his aunt, an eccentric woman with quite radical ideas, who lives isolated from the world in a ranch in Querétaro. Javier works as a laborer for an Argentinean foreman, with whom he shares a few passions. His life begins to change.
Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Dalia's life changes when she has to face her ethnobotanist mother Alzheimer's disease. This is a story of the chemistry of the brain, plants, and of human emotions; of the invisible bonds that unite the living with their dead and with nature, which belongs to us all; and about the Mexican herbalist heritage that tells which plants can help cure the soul.
Leo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala.
A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalization and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him
On January 1, 1994, a revolt led by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation broke out in Chiapas. A Spanish director documents the pain of the indigenous population. Six years later, he intends to go further and visit the refugees and the guerrillas. However, the siege of silence is protected by more than sixty thousand soldiers who prevent access to indigenous communities.
A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.
Biopic about a woman who played a courageous role in the resistance against French occupation of Mexico in the early 1800s.
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])
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Richard Dreyfuss is Moses Wine, a private detective hired to by his former college girlfriend, Susan Anspach, to investigate a political smear campaign. Moses sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results, in this comedy-thriller.
Plantation-owner feels so cavalierly toward his peons that he grants himself the privilege of letting them die to gratify his whims. One of them has lived since childhood in the mansion and has become "almost like" a family member... which ends up causing considerable problems.
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation.
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
Three young women are ready to marry, but their father inserts himself into the decision-making process.
Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.
Backwards fishing village is home to a widow and her teenaged daughter. Neighbors suspect the mother of having murdered her husband. A tourist in town gets it into his head to put the smooth big city moves on both women. And the-e-en...
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
A pregnant woman travels through the desert in order to sell shoes in the nearest city.
