El Infierno

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

A Shred Of Mist

After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.

The Crime of Padre Amaro

Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.

Zone of Silence

Several fantastic stories occur in the Mexican "Zone of Silence." It begins in the 1920s when a man steals a train and then flees to enter the present. Another man finds a colonizer guarded by a ghost treasure, two girls are attacked by an evil car and finally a man steals money, then he flees to enter the past.

Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer investigating the disappearance of the murdered body and an architect hired to design the mausoleum to the memory of the possible dictator.

Lost Objects

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers.

Tespis Teporocho

In "Tespis Teporocho", a boy who interacts with vagabonds thirsty for knowledge, finally absorb them from an unexpected teacher.

The Human Hyena

The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police department.

Una buena forma de morir

After his wife is murdered by gang members, a man must take revenge.

The Eve

Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.

Baroque

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'

La Generala

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.

Paty chula

Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse the invitation since the signing of the contract depends on this meeting. In 1993 this film received the Ariel Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best medium-length fiction film.

Nocturno a Rosario

The Recourse to the Method

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.

Roots of Blood

A deadly riot breaks out after unfair labor practices at a garment factory raises tensions between Mexican and Chicano workers.

Una papa sin catsup

Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life.

Violent Stories

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

A Married Woman

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.

What if we talk about August?

It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.