Mal de hogar

Mexican feature film

Two sisters working hard to support their alcoholic father. The youngest sister "Obdulia" mutilates her hand in a work-related accident and her father tries to take advantage of the situation by demanding money from the workplace. Obdulia recovers from her accident and tensions arise with her family & boyfriend.

Nacho and Memo start working as night watchmen in a Tequila factory. It is a stormy night. As soon as they recognize themselves alone in the middle of the huge industry, they get ready to drink and then they discover an intruder inside the facilities. It is Don Catarino, an old beggar who lives off the mercy of the employees and is the one who warns them that a lost soul usually appears in that factory on stormy nights. He pleads with them to ignore her and not allow her to involve them in her troubles. As soon as he disappears, a woman asks them for help to shelter from the storm.

Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The journey has been long and Pilar wants to rest. Dismissed his driver and his butler; will try to sleep until breakfast time. The diva dreams of being killed by one of her admirers, but who appears in her room is the new maid, Estela...

The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.

A suicide pact and a love triangle, framed in betrayal and perversion.

Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but...

A pair of macho private detectives pose as a gay couple to gain access into the world of a perverted wealthy widow, Doña Josefina, also known as “Mrs. Open Mind.” The widow’s summer home, it seems, is a legendary lightning rod for scandal because of mysterious and evil incidents that occur there.

A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to achieving what she sets out to do, will use all her weapons to recover what is her own.

In a indeterminate future, Mexico would be a part of USA. In this context, the protagonist live under political and sexual repression.

An art Critic of unstable, conflictive and seductive personality discovers a sculpture of Triton, mithological caracter of man-fish. The mysterious hermafrodite figure reminds him of the loss of his father at the sea during his childhood, and triggers sexual impulses and desires of destruction in him.

The disturbing emotional relationship of two brothers with irreconcilable attitudes towards life.

Don Aurelio, a powerful man, is capable of destroying anyone who tries to take his daughter Leticia, his joy and rejoicing. At the same time, she is willing to do anything to get rid of him.