Ana Ofelia Murguía

Coco (2017)

Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a ...

El mar muerto (2013)

There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscience) and commit a transgression (murder and infidelity). When the lights come on, conscious of what they have done, they must atone for their sin. ...

The Waterwheel (2013)

In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son. ...

The Last Call (2013)

Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's "Caligula" for an influential upcoming international theater festival. ...

Expiration Date (2012)

Ramona's compulsive life becomes a wreck when she finds out, after a long search that Osvaldo, her only son, has died. ...

The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man (2011)

A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in going the right way? An offbeat, allegorical odyssey that blends absurd humor with pastoral imagery. A young man and a dead man journey north through a subtly s ...

I Miss You (2010)

This is the story of Javier, a 15 year old Argentinean who left for Mexico carrying the drama of his missing brother, prematurely deprived of his parents, and bearing the weight of collective blame. ...

The Good Herbs (2010)

A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease. ...

Walking Vengeance (2008)

A woman and her three partners-in-crime plan a revenge heist against her violent narco husband in order to get rid of him and steal his money. ...

Tear This Heart Out (2008)

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of pos ...

El Viaje de la Nonna (2008)

A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico! ...

Blue Eyelids (2007)

Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery. ...

A Good Death Beats a Dull Life (2006)

The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The story of these eccentric women combines love, potions, black humor and death. ...

Bandidas (2006)

When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists. ...

El edén (2004)

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 ...

Otilia Rauda (2002)

Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. ...

La maceta (2002)

Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good (2001)

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer invest ...

Written on the Body of Night (2001)

A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother. ...

His Most Serene Highness (2000)

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory ...

Compassionate Sex (2000)

Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lo ...

Ave María (1999)

In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people. ...

Luces de la noche (1998)

On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back. ...

A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon (1997)

An elderly couple spends together the afternoon in their living room. Suddenly she breaks the silence. ...

Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997)

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

De muerte natural (1996)

Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood. ...

El Anzuelo (1996)

Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying into a rich clan that they throw the best wedding ever, even if they can't afford it. When the father (Damià ...

Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)

Alcoholic prostitute Gloria is in the middle of a business deal with gangsters when a fatal confrontation occurs. She flees Mexico City, returning to her native Madrid, where she's reunited with her comatose husband and his mother, while hitman Eduardo is ...

Morena (1995)

The Queen of the Night (1994)

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ...

Amber (1994)

Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters. ...

The Garden of Eden (1994)

Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives. ...

My dear Tom Mix (1992)

Joaquina is aging in a small Mexican village in the 1920s. Her life is boring and she spends her days dreaming of her hero, cowboy Tom Mix. Everything Joaquina wants is to meet him. Her life changes when a bunch of bandits appears nearby. It's time for Tom ...

Lost Objects (1992)

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover ...

The Rider of Divine Providence (1991)

The bishop of Culiacan and three priests are dedicated to investigate the alleged miracles of Jesus Malverde, a bandit deceased at the end of XIX century who is said, stole from the rich and gave to the poor; which is enough reason for the locals to venera ...

One Man’s War (1991)

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since ...

Dying in the Gulf (1990)

The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy ...

Goitia: A God for Himself (1989)

The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his people, his permanent search for identity as a man and as an artist and his struggle against the demons of the b ...

Intimidad (1989)

A hen-pecked husband, so timid that he doesn't even dare to drive a car, embarks on an affair with a much younger woman (played by Lisa Owen), who lives in the same apartment building as him and his wife. Eventually, he finds that the young woman is just a ...

Las asesinas del panadero (1989)

Mexican feature film ...

Gaby: A True Story (1987)

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

Los confines (1987)

Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones. ...

What Do You Think? (1986)

A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression ...

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro (1986)

Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good. ...

Luz's Motives (1986)

Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step ...

The Humiliated (1986)

Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent. ...

Mexicano ¡Tú puedes! (1985)

Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to ...

Dune (1984)

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert ...

The Heart of the Night (1984)

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become r ...

The Black Widow (1983)

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest. ...

The Eve (1982)

Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered. ...

'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar! (1981)

Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely. ...

Constelaciones (1980)

The lives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the astronomer Carlos de Singüenza y Góngora intersect with those of a mysterious monk through a series of monologues and soliloquies in an internal struggle between their passions and clerical dogma. ...

Life Sentence (1979)

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. ...

Maria of My Heart (1979)

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels ...

Naufragio (1978)

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. ...

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna (1978)

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers… ...

Free Love (1978)

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship. ...

Maten al León (1977)

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion). ...

Las Poquianchis (1976)

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants. ...

The Heist (1976)

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the ...

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, s ...

Esa mi Irene (1975)

A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975 ...

The Prophet Mimi (1973)

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer. ...

El águila descalza (1971)

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses. ...

Para servir a usted (1971)

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk. ...

Zuzanka's Game (1970)

Mexican feature film ...