Yolanda Ochoa

Las Fuerzas Vivas

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.

El valle de los miserables

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.

The Devil's Horse

Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even more violent then before, this time extending his violence to women and animals.

At a Lame Pace

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

Omen

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

La comadrita

Alas doradas

Cadets at Air Force academy.

El amor tiene cara de mujer

The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.