Jorge Fons

Red Dawn

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.

Midaq Alley

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.

Tú, yo, nosotros

Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection.

The Summit

A fleeting instant in filial relations shows us the way in which we transmit to our children and others the meaning we attribute to life.

Partners and Lovers

Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)

The Children's Hour

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to whom he reluctantly tells stories and tries to keep entertained while waiting for his fee to be paid.

Love Traps

Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.

Faith, Hope and Charity

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Así es Vietnam

Military invention in Vietnam 1955 to 1975.

Matrimonio y Sexo

A marriage in decline decides to try new things through sex in order to save their relationship.

Pulquería La Rosita

A child living with his parents in a lost city faces daily violence in a marginal environment. It was the first production of CUEC-UNAM.

Jory

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect.

The Cubs

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.

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.

File of Attempted Murder

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

El Quelite

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

Cinco mil dolares de recompensa

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.

Everyone's Hell So Feared

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.

A Pure Soul

Second of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). Claudia, a young aristocratic girl travels to Switzerland to recover the corpse of her brother, Juan Luis. As she flies back home to Mexico, in flashback it is revealed that she and her brother had an incestuous relationship and that she managed to drive his fiance, Claire, to her death... with tragic consequences for all of them.

The Two Elenas

Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless, constantly criticized by her mother, also named Elena, who is very refined, correct and bourgeois. The three of them will be involved in a rather ambiguous and at the same time terribly moving moment in their lives.

Burden of Guilt

Paulino Córdoba, Gabino Roura, Rodolfo Huerta, and Matías Quiroga have been friends since childhood; however, as adults, their priorities shifted, and a sin now threatens to destroy their friendship. Paulino owns the El Milagro apple hacienda and is married to Rosario; they have two children, César and Lucrecia. Rosario has always favored her son while openly rejecting her daughter. Lucrecia was raised by Delfina, Rosario’s maid and Manuel’s mother.

Una familia con suerte

A Mexican telenovela based on the Argentinean telenovela Los Roldán.

Mi corazón es tuyo

Fernando Lascurain is a wealthy businessman and recent widower, attempting to raise his seven unruly children. He seeks the assistance of a new nanny. He hires and falls in love with Ana Leal, a struggling exotic dancer who tries to hide her double life. Although Ana lacks experience and a refined education, she quickly bonds with the Lascurain children. Ana dreams of being a mother, but when her home is destroyed following an accident, she must borrow money from her ruthless boss at "Chicago", the night club where she is secretly employed. When Fernando simultaneously falls for Ana and Isabela, an economist and sophisticated woman who is trained by her mother to marry a millionaire, he must choose between both women.

Porque el Amor Manda

Porque el Amor Manda is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa. It is a remake of the Colombian telenovela El secretario, produced by Juan Andrés Flórez in 2011. Fernando Colunga and Blanca Soto star as the protagonists Claudia Álvarez stars as the antagonist.

Yo compro esa mujer

In the early 20th century, the Montes de Oca family—comprising two sisters and a cousin—finds itself entangled in an intense love triangle. Matilde is in love with her cousin Rodrigo, who loves the other sister, Branca Flor; she, in turn, loves a humble fisherman. Upon discovering this, Rodrigo accuses the fisherman of theft, leading to his arrest. The lovestruck cousin’s malice knows no bounds; learning that Branca Flor is carrying the fisherman's child, he waits for the baby to be born so he can make it disappear.

Si Dios Me Quita La Vida

Si Dios Me Quita La Vida is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. This telenovela was broadcast in 1995. This is a remake of the 1961 telenovela La Leona starred by Amparo Rivelles and Ernesto Alonso.

La casa al final de la calle