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- Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
- When a young woman becomes afflicted by stigmata, a priest is sent to investigate her case, which may have severe ramifications for his faith and for the Catholic Church itself.
- When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
- A globetrotting hitman and a crestfallen businessman meet in a hotel bar in Mexico City in an encounter that draws them together in a way neither expected.
- After entering a beauty contest in Tijuana, a young woman witnesses drug-related murders and is forced to do the gang's bidding.
- The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.
- Doña Consuelo constantly listens to old Don Chema's nasty comments about her daughter Cristina's unmarried state. But little do they know that Cristina has a pleasant secret.
- Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
- Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young transsexual sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with Yorgos.
- A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.
- The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
- Hector and his young mother Paloma go on vacation. Out of season their hotel is deserted. They spend their days sitting on the edge of the swimming pool. Then attractive Jazmin arrives and we see how Paloma loses her son to a summer fling.
- It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by the Spanish Armies under Cortés' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damián Delgado]. Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in his native land. A New World with new leaders, language, customs... and God. Representing the New Order is the Spanish Friar Diego [José Carlos Rodríguez]. His mission is to convert the "savage" natives into civilised Christians; to replace their human sacrifices and feathered deities with public Christenings and fealty to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With Topiltzin, Friar Diego faces his most difficult spiritual and personal challenge, for when Topiltzin is captured by Spanish troops and presented to Cortés [Iñaki Aierra], the Spanish Conqueror places Topiltzin's conversion under Friar Diego's care. Old world confronts the New as Topiltzin struggles to preserve his own beliefs, whilst Friar Diego attempts to impose his own. All the while, the question remains: who is converting who?
- Ulises Alpuyeca looks for his first opportunity to film a movie. After several rejections, an opportunity finally arrives, although it was not what he expected.
- Five men are hired to paint the lines of a road. Painting 1 km/hour is slow enough to learn the lines between good and evil, laughter and despair, life and death. The challenges they face will change their lives forever.
- Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
- The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually.
- During the final decade of 18th century in Mexico City, capital of the vice-royalty of New Spain, the official choreographer publicly complains of the abusive and unjust methods of the administrator of the vice-royalty, and puts in jeopardy his life and his mestizo son's, in a climate of social privation, racism and intrigues of power and religion faith that grows out of proportion when the Inquisition intervenes.
- It is laid out as a realistic film, with a screenplay based on the stories of hundreds of women that are forced to choose between their children and their mate in order to sustain their families.
- Alberto (Giménez Cacho) is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife (Heredia) and his free and careless life in the 60s. Alberto remembers, and his memories don't let him live his present life with Ana (Mata), his current girlfriend.
- In the 1970s, during the military dictatorship in Uruguay, the boy Pablo witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of General Díz. Years later, after the new Uruguayan government grants amnesty to the criminals of the former dictatorship, including General Díz, Pablo returns to Uruguay to challenge General Díz to a duel, with tragic consequences.
- Carmen is fond of astrology and conducts her own program of romantic advice on the radio. However, she lives trapped in her own time and in her past.
- A man who travels back to the house of his father, grandfather and backwards.
- In the midst of the incessant din of the Paradise Café's kitchen in the rush hour, Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to recover his youth, his dignity and even win the love of Susan.
- About the stars of the Mexican film industry 1940-1970.
- A film about chanting shamans. Their eternal journeys and celebrations.
- Carmita, an 80 year old Cuban actress exiled in Mexico lives in a mansion in ruins. She's strong enough to appear on TV, read her fan mail and complain about her ex husband who ruined her dream of a possible Hollywood career. The unexpected visit of Laura and Israel allows us to discover a world trapped in the golden age memories.
- David Alfaro Siqueiros painted one of his best murals inside a basement. It was abandoned until somebody tried to sell it after mutilated it into five enormous pieces.
- A fleeting instant in filial relations shows us the way in which we transmit to our children and others the meaning we attribute to life. The eternal contradiction: to live to have a life or to live to be; ownership and the unobtainable; affectation and naturalness; domination and belonging.
- A hole can be interpreted in many ways, and so can these 4 ways of covering it.
- Juan works in a uniforms store. A safe, mundane life without ambition. Until one day, La Borrega came along.
- A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.
- Tere, punished by her father, must endure the tedious confinement of her room. In an unusual act of rebellion and anger, she discovers that love is not a child's play.
- At the end of the 40's the phenomenon of mass immigration from the rural areas to the cities grew significantly. Being in the Capital City, BONFILIO as a beggar playing a trumpet is hit by a car. Before he dies, lots of images come to his mind. BONFILIO decides to leave home and family to go to "The Land of Opportunities" He and his friend work in the train station while making their way to "Paso Del Norte"; They try to cross the river to get into The States. Unfortunately, several armed Texan men where hunting Mexicans; and a bullet kills his friend; BONFILIO is hurt and sent back to Mexico. BONFILIO came to the big city to find Death itself. He is buried in complete anonymity.
- Music and dances are perhaps the most characteristic traits of the Yuman communities. Cyclical chants accompanied by the sound of a rattle or jalmá, executed by one or more singers in unison, among a variety of moves and other symbols that determine rituals with specific meanings; from the funeral ceremonies of the Takei Kna, to the Kuri festive dances.
- Don Bartolo is a forgetful old man. In his everyday routine, he doesnt know if he is coming or going, and he doesnt care much, as long as there are milk and cookies. But what about Margarita?
- An attack on a popular singer known as Pachito, who is the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country, becomes the starting point of several deranged and twisted stories.
- At the end of the eighth day, the Creator has taken refuge in a dark dungeon. Obsessed with transcending, he manipulates life to the extreme and tries to engender the perfect being that will immortalize him.
- A sensual and painful memory of the Mexican Revolution.
- Zerch asks his boyfriend Cano to do something terrible for him. Cano, driven by a powerful love, agrees without knowing he is about to sacrifice more than he imagined.
- This is a collaborative documentary about arts, culture and everyday life inside a prison for minors in Mexico City.