Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

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.

Firewalker

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Love Hurts

Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.

Charm School

Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.

Violent Stories

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Curandero

Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.

City of the Blind

Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.

La maceta

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.

Firewalker

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Love Hurts

Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.

Charm School

Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.

Violent Stories

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Curandero

Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.

City of the Blind

Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.

La maceta

Bordertown

American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado

Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering his artistic vocation, stuff like that.

¡Que viva México!

After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

The Miracle

A miracle is about to happen, Margarita, like everyone wants to attend, but Alfonso, her husband, believes that everything is a sham.

I am My Mother

Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins’s film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region relies heavily on service and maintenance work provided largely through this population, who often commute to work in Aspen. Loosely inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids—a seminal example of Theatre of the Absurd that renders surreal the intricate power dynamics that exist between people of divergent socioeconomic groups and exploits the volatility of social identity—Soy Mi Madre portrays the social realities of this region through the melodramatic lens of the telenovela. Reproduced in this volume through a generous selection of stills, the film uses popular Mexican television actors and crew, including Patricia Reyes Spindola, Zaide Silvia Guitérrez, Veronica Langer, and Salvador Parra, as well as members of the transsexual prostitute community of Mexico City.

Miracles

Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, the jaywalking jewel thief who decides to cash in on the crash. The ex-couple are kidnapped, shot at, cast adrift, mistaken for smugglers and even survive a plane crash. But the toughest torture these two endure is being trapped together.

Spam

Tobias, a maladjusted young high-school student, must use his investigative skills to stop a deadly supernatural chain started by one of his school friends, Lucia, before death reaches them.

El Mago

A young man returns to differente people and places in his life, to repay favors once done and change the lives of those surrounding him, forever.

Dispárenle a matar

A man gets involved in a murder and his life is radically transformed. He decides to return to his hometown to find his family and an old love. Unfortunately, the police and some drug dealers start harassing him until the man decides to disappear completely.

Viaje al paraíso

Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.

Hotel Colonial

Marco Veniera goes to Bogotá, Colombia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And brotherly love turns to hate.

Death and the Compass

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Gaby: A True Story

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

El Norte

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.

Wild Blue Moon

A young woman uses witchcraft to take her revenge on an artist who dumped her.

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

La rosa de Guadalupe

Stories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.

American Playhouse

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

ScreenPlay

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Daughter from Another Mother

After realizing their babies were exchanged at birth, two women develop a plan to adjust to their new lives: creating a single —and peculiar— family.

¡Vivan los niños!

¡Vivan los niños! is a Mexican telenovela for children that premiered in 2002. It ran for 155 episodes and finished in 2003. The opening, Vivan los niños, was recorded by the Latin pop group OV7. One of its closing themes, also entitled Vivan los niños, was performed by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Ana Cristina. The show is a version of the Argentinian telenovela "Jacinta Pichimahuida, la maestra que no se olvida". The series starred Andrea Legarreta as 2nd grade teacher Lupita Gómez. After the series ended, Andrea became the long-time host of the morning talk show Hoy. On July 12, 2012, in celebration of Andrea's birthday, the producers of Hoy reunited her with the young actors who played her students on the series.

Para Volver a Amar

Para Volver a Amar is a Televisa telenovela that aired on the Canal de las Estrellas channel in Mexico from July 12, 2010 to January 30, 2011. It stars Rebecca Jones, Rene Strickler, Alejandro Camacho, Alejandra Barros, and Africa Zavala. The Mexican version however is taken from the original Colombian soap opera series "El Último Matrimonio Feliz". The story is about six women who befriend each other and help each other deal with the pains of life, particularly in regards to marriage and relationships. They'll realize that even amidst their problems, happiness is not impossible to attain. It won seven Premios TVyNovelas awards for Best Telenovela of the Year, Best Male Villain, Best First Actress, Best First Actor, Best Co-Star Actress, Best Co-Star Actor, and Best Young Lead Actor. Para Volver a Amar aired in the United States on Univision from March 8, 2011 to October 28, 2011 at 12am/11pm central.

La Culpa

La Culpa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 12 to October 11, 1996. Created by Nora Alemán, with literary editing by Marco García, the telenovela stars Tiaré Scanda and Raúl Araiza. Due to low ratings, it was shortened to 45 episodes. The story follows Isabel Lagarde, the adopted daughter of a wealthy family, who falls in love with Miguel Nava, the son of a former boxing champion. Their lives are torn apart after Miguel becomes involved in the accident that kills Isabel's sister, Juana Inés. As grief, suspicion, and revenge threaten to destroy their relationship, Isabel and Miguel must uncover the truth behind the tragedy and identify the real person responsible.

Hermanas, un amor compartido

A Shelter for Love

This is the story of the young and beautiful Luciana Jacinto, a poor woman from the provinces who travels to Mexico City to flee the local strongman of her hometown, San Francisco el Alto. After a rough start in the big city, she must face obstacles and surprises that fate has in store for her in her quest for a happy ending, as she falls in love with a young man from a wealthy family.

La doble vida de Estela Carrillo

After witnessing a murder, single mother Estela Carrillo must hide the fact that she is an undocumented immigrant escaping a dark past. While hiding her secret, romantic interests and her dream of becoming a singer complicate her plans.

Ask God For Forgiveness... Not Me

The story of Renata Flores del Angel, a young woman from a wealthy family who falls for Pablo Ramos, the foreman of her father's estate.

Por siempre Joan Sebastián

Biographical miniseries about the late Mexican singer Joan Sebastian.

Una luz en el camino

Una luz en el camino is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from March 30 to July 31, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine children's telenovela El árbol azul (1991–1992), created by Mario L. Mortheo and adapted for Mexican television by Alejandro Orive and Carlos Daniel González. The story follows Luciana, a young girl who loses her mother at an early age and longs to have a loving family again. After meeting child psychologist Marcela, she becomes determined to bring her and her widowed father, Rodrigo, together. Along the way, they must overcome grief, misunderstandings, and the schemes of the ambitious Astrid, who seeks to marry Rodrigo for his fortune.

Cuentos de Borges