FILMS -GENRE -MEXICO I

A dancer and prostitute in Mexico City is unsaddled by guilt about her raunchy life and even tries to find happiness.

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.

An illiterate Indian (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him are irrevocably destroyed as the company takes over the land by crooked means. Based on the novel by B.Traven.

The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows his boss,El Caudillo has chosen another candidate. Several political moves are done between the parties, leading to a thunderous climax.

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

Matea is an orphan who assists the priest, Father Feliciano, in his parish. The village doctor tries to seduce her, but fails and proceeds to defame her into believing that Matea maintains relations with the priest.

An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.

Three separate stories of children from different places seeking to find their missing fathers.

Alejandro Valle's "Stories of Disenchatment" is a contemporary fairy tale about two teenagers and their leisurely trip as they run into dark, mysterious woman.

Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. Her 19-year-old daughter Helena dreams of traveling the world and learns foreign languages at home and wishes she could be a glamorous pop star like her mother was. Helena cares for her mother with help from their housemaid Cahya, who also keeps the aging house in working order. Sebastian is Helena's teenage brother who attends a Catholic high school run by a Monsignor who plays classical music over the loudspeakers, thinking it will calm down the boisterous kids. Sebastian's dreams are simple: he merely wants to move to the beach. Helena is smart and pretty but she has no friends, male or female, and is totally devoted to her mother's care.

Carlo's uncle died on a Sunday morning, and the only funeral home working on Sundays is managed by a very suspicious character.

A drama centered on the relationship between a painter who's losing his sight and a maid in a Mexican brothel.

A band of thieves steal from a Mexican bank and travel to Argentina to launder the money. Upon their arrival the plan goes south and it's up to them to figure out what went wrong.

Alejandro is a rich kid who is trying to scape of his own ghosts, in his journey arrives to a beach town where he knows a girl, who shows him other side of life, a simple and beautiful side. But even in paradise there are de demons.

Ricardo, a hard-working family man, gets an unexpected promotion, but the pressures of a top- level management position reward him with the ultimate let-down: erectile dysfunction.

Intertwining stories of abuse, adultery, and anorexia center around a Mexico City family with an obsessed mother.

Esmeralda is a lonely teenager with a strange obsession : she gathers lost or left behind objects and keeps them in a box underneath her bed. This story tells the backgrounds of these objects.

The relationship between beautiful Emilia (Elizabeth Cervantes) and her imaginative young daughter, Alicia, is tested in this understated Mexican drama. Disoriented after moving to a new apartment and left to herself when her mother starts bringing men home, Alicia takes refuge in dreams that soon become nightmares, especially after she begins to fear that her mom has become possessed by the vampirish man next door. With a keen eye for the rhythms and struggles of contemporary Mexican family life, this film illuminates the secret worlds of lonely children while never straying from its true subject: the uncommon love between a single mother and her child.

SET IN MEXICO! A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Víctor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father funeral home.

A pair of strangers become subconsciously connected after their recurring dreams turn into reality.

A story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.

1) globalization of violence, violence of globalization? 2) serial killers, social killers? 3) a mine in brazil some murders in new york others in miami how are they connected? 4) "who's putting dynamite at the head of the century" asks tom zé -singing- at the end of the film 5) "cobrador - in god we trust" is an invitation to search the answers to these questions. "cobrador - in god we trust" is an attempt to find the answers to these questions.

The Greek Olimpian Gods engage in the human life experience to its full intensity, for which they choose Mexico City's trendy night club: "Olimpus Dancing Club". Once living in the mortal's world, the naughty Eros (with help of a gang of ill-behaved gods), is responsible for unleashing a forbidden passion that disrupts the lives of the members of two families of not-so-simple mortals.

Two different social classes get together at a family gathering in Mexico. Based on the TV project "Ruta 32".