Movies by Yirah Aparicio

Cured of Fears

Cured of Fears

During an excavation, archaeologist Magdalena (Lina Santos) accidentally resurrects a centuries-old vampire named Vladimir, who promptly disappears. When she attempts to warn authorities, she's locked away in a mental hospital for a spell. Upon release, she sets out to stop the vampire, who's now taken over a nightclub.

El Pichichi del barrio

El Pichichi del barrio

Pichichi tries to put together a female soccer team as the mafia uses it as a front to distribute drugs.

Tequila

Tequila

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a cinematic extension of Mexico’s muralist tradition, a contemporary equivalent of Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros with vignettes, quick ideas, visual puns, cartoons, and political statements.

Midnight Women

Midnight Women

An assassin stalks and murders women to mutilate them and turn them into models.

La negra Tomasa

La negra Tomasa

Based on the infamous song by the same name "La Negra Tomasa". This is a comical adventure based in a barrio in Mexico. César Bono plays a police office, Alfonso Zayas a ladies' man and Roberto Ballesteros a dangerous loan shark who abducts Tomasa out of passion.

El Mofles en Acapulco

El Mofles en Acapulco

Sleazy comedic character "El Mofles" goes to Acapulco where he gets unknowingly involved with a robbery.

El virus del poder

El virus del poder

School for Witches

School for Witches

Team of fake-seance gals open a school to learn witchery, accidentally link up with a young woman with real telepathic abilities. Meanwhile, some mafiosi have kidnapped a bunch of children...

El adulterio me da risa

El adulterio me da risa

A man convinces his wife to let his lover live in the same house as them... until his wife reveals she has a lover of her own.