Arturo Ripstein

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?

An examination of the problem of alcoholism in Mexico, focusing primarily on the underprivileged, though it also analyzes how this addiction transcends social, gender, and temporal barriers.

When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)

A singer is on the run from the law and a criminal gang. She takes refuge at a hotel where she finally reveals a complex story of betrayal and revenge to the investigating detective.

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.

Homero Olmos, a famous television publicist known as "H.O." or "The Voice of Experience," is driving along a lonely road heading to Rio de Janeiro when he meets Claudia and Luis, a newlywed couple whose car has been in an accident.

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliated, she feels desired and desirable.

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

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.

Many stories happen simultaneously through Internet. In the real world, people are lonely, isolated, desperate for finding love, friendship and tenderness. They project themselves as superheroes, with infinity of friends and hypersex. They live asphyxiated in front of their machines, unable to live with the people that surround them, exasperated for finding a pinch of love in the fantasy of the net. Outside the virtual world, they do not exist.

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.

Dulce Desafío is a Mexican telenovela starring Adela Noriega and Eduardo Yáñez.

The story begins in a small town in rural Mexico, home to Maria López—a humble, dreamy young woman of indigenous descent—who decides to leave her village for Mexico City in search of work and a better life. Upon arriving in the capital, she begins working as a domestic helper in mansions across wealthy neighborhoods, using her earnings to pay for sewing classes. At one of these homes, she meets Juan Carlos del Villar, a playboy who seduces and wins her over.

La sonrisa del diablo is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from February 24 to July 31, 1992. It is the second adaptation of the 1970 telenovela of the same name, originally created by Luisa Xamar, and was adapted by Fernanda Villeli and Marcia Yance. The story follows Déborah San Román, a beautiful and ambitious young woman who stops at nothing to achieve wealth and power. After marrying a wealthy widower while secretly maintaining a relationship with her unscrupulous lover, she manipulates and betrays everyone around her. As her web of lies and crimes grows, love, honesty, and justice begin to threaten her ruthless ambitions.

Triángulo is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 3 to November 20, 1992. Created by María Zarattini and adapted by Irma Ramos, the telenovela stars Daniela Castro and Eduardo Palomo. The story follows Sara Granados, a kind-hearted young woman who is constantly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister. After being deceived by the ambitious David and becoming pregnant, Sara finds support in his brother Iván, who falls in love with her. As David returns determined to reclaim her, the three become entangled in a love triangle marked by family conflicts, betrayal, and the search for happiness.