Movies by Carmen Salinas

The Valet
World famous movie star Olivia faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover, Vincent. The hard-working valet Antonio accidentally appears in the same photo and is enlisted to pose as Olivia’s new boyfriend as a cover-up. This ruse with Olivia thrusts Antonio into the spotlight and unexpected chaos.

Under the Same Moon
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.

Masacre en el río Tula
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.

Danzón
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.

The Place Without Limits
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

The Scent of Death
The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.

Prax

Appointment with Death
Four different director contribute a segment to this horror anthology.
Me muero de la risa
A film full of comedy skits of all kinds.

El rincón de las vírgenes
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.

Mi Verdad
Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos.

Doña Macabra
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.

Esta noche cena Pancho
Four friends gather to organize a wild and sleazy bachelor party.

No hay quinto malo

Bellas de noche (Las ficheras)
The Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the fichera Carmen, and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas, who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul, to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita.

Muñecas de medianoche
Two young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Tivoli
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.

Las mil y una aventuras del metro

La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo
After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good for nothing, and took refuge in the cabaret ends up working as a transvestite.