Evangelina Martínez

Romancing the Bride

One day before she is set to exchange vows with the man of her dreams, a flustered bride-to-be wakes up next to a complete stranger who claims to be her husband in this south-of-the-border romantic comedy.

The Glories of the Great Púas

Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.

Violent Stories

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

The Heart of the Night

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.

Miroslava

The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbing portrait of a lonely woman.

Celestino

Ivan, a Belgian journalist on sabbatical in Mexico, starts following the trail of a mysterious writer called Celestino Pérez. Upon arrival in the village where Celestino lives, he turns out to be absent. Ivan is taken in by the writer's family. He soon finds himself trapped in their house, mirroring his own experience with his imagination about Celestino.

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II

The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with cancer having a love affair to the love between two teenagers who try to make love for the first time or to the burning desire of a cop who is bewitched by cupid.

Snake Skin

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a nightmare.

Romancing the Bride

One day before she is set to exchange vows with the man of her dreams, a flustered bride-to-be wakes up next to a complete stranger who claims to be her husband in this south-of-the-border romantic comedy.

The Glories of the Great Púas

Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.

Violent Stories

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

The Heart of the Night

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.

Miroslava

The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbing portrait of a lonely woman.

Celestino

Ivan, a Belgian journalist on sabbatical in Mexico, starts following the trail of a mysterious writer called Celestino Pérez. Upon arrival in the village where Celestino lives, he turns out to be absent. Ivan is taken in by the writer's family. He soon finds himself trapped in their house, mirroring his own experience with his imagination about Celestino.

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II

The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with cancer having a love affair to the love between two teenagers who try to make love for the first time or to the burning desire of a cop who is bewitched by cupid.

Snake Skin

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a nightmare.

Lecciones de Otoño

It's my Life

Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. The madam finds him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who is selling her virginity to support her family. When he sees Delgadina sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.

Sweet Release

The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.

Las Horas Contigo

Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same week her beloved grandmother becomes gravely ill. Spending her last days at her grandmother's side, Ema is forced to spend time with her estranged, larger than life mother, getting to know her and seeing her with new eyes. As she spends time with the people gathered around her grandmother in her last days; Ema re-evaluates her beliefs, her fears and her set ideas about family, love and parenthood.

Malos hábitos

Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion.

Tenants

A couple arrives to an apartment complex where santeria and witchcraft are common practice.

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.

Matinée

Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.

The Bricklayers

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.

Naufragio

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son.

Longitud de Guerra

Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.

Las asesinas del panadero

Mexican feature film

The Passion of Berenice

When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.

El principio

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

Aquel famoso Remington

Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s.

Luz Clarita

Mariano de la Fuente's family opens their home to a young orphan named Luz Clarita. Little Mariela views her as a rival and sets out to make her life miserable, but Luz Clarita will fight to find happiness.

We Were Kings

A tight-knit crew of three reigns over a bustling barrio in Mexico City — until a sudden tragedy breaks their crowns and renders two of them rivals.

Corazón Partido

Corazón Partido, is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and Argos Comunicacion. This limited-run series ran for 90 episodes from November 1, 2005 to June 16, 2006. This telenovela was aired in 17 countries around the world.