Andrea Palma

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

Tarzan and the Mermaids

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Looking for a Wall

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

Andante

A young woman falls in love with a classical pianist and has problems with her friends from high society.

Aventurera

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.

The Woman of the Port

Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...

Another Dawn

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Sensualidad

A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart.

La mentira

When Demetrio arrives at the mine to meet his brother Ricardo, he finds out that Ricardo has committed suicide for the love of a woman. He promises to avenge the death of his brother..

Amapola Del Camino

A young woman is forced to marry an old pharmacist, but she is in love with a young man who is leaving town

Heaven and Earth

Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.

La entrega

Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.

Eugenia Grandet

A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.

By the False Door

Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.

Angels of the Street

Grandmother-type provides structure in the lives of orphaned/abandoned children.

Where Are Our Children Going?

One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they think about marriage! Mom and Pop have their own #firstworldproblems.

History of a Scoundrel

A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?

La mujer que no tuvo infancia

Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.

Guadalajara en verano

Tourists and exchange students find romance.

Elena y Raquel

Elena's sterile and her younger cousin Raquel gets pregnant before marriage.They scream at each other a lot.

Seis días para morir

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Take Me in Your Arms

To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.

Una sombra en mi destino

Mexican movie

The Absentee

After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident

Mujeres sin mañana

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.

Padre nuestro

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Salón de belleza

Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.

Retablos de la Guadalupana

From the hill of Tepeyac arise the most extraordinary miracles.

Baron Brakola

Santo goes up against the vampire Baron Brakola, who has returned to seek vengeance on the descendants of the Knight in the Silver Mask (Santo's colonial era ancestor).

El proceso de Cristo

The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.

Ave sin rumbo

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?

The Coward

A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.

Pubertinaje

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.

La hermana blanca

A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.

Quiero vivir

Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.

Dios nos manda vivir

Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama: young widow suffers everything life can throw at her.

Siete pecados

Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.

La casa de la zorra

The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.

El Buen Mozo

Unscrupulous cad sleeps his way to the top of belle epoque Paris society.

El dinero no es la vida

A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.

Pobre corazón

Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.

Mujeres que trabajan

Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.

Viva Jalisco que es mi tierra

Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...

Cuatro horas antes de morir

The film tells the intense countdown of a woman sentenced to death.

Lágrimas robadas

Mexican feature film

Ash Wednesday

1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

A biopic that narrates the life of the novohispanic poetess.

El primo Basilio

Luisa, who is actually happily married, begins an affair with her cousin while her husband is away.

México de mis amores

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

Una luz en mi camino

In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.