Carlos Aguilar

Bad Hombres (2019)

In times of zero tolerance for undocumented migration and Donald Trump tries to build higher walls to stop it, a series of deportees who intend to cross back to the United States survive by forming a community a few meters from the border fence. ...

I Am Not Handsome (2019)

The Sonidero movement echoes throughout the streets of Mexico City with waves of tropical rhythms, neon lights and dance moves. Two brave and touching characters, La Cigarrita and El Duende fight to keep this tradition alive, opposing the government's init ...

Anger, Also Known As Sheol (2019)

A woman who escapes an overwhelming reality into a world of nightmares, by eating the forbidden fruit of Paradise's Tree of Eternal Life; a very frustrated man, both in his professional and love life, whose serial killer dreams may become a reality; and an ...

Potentiae (2017)

A story about persons with different disabilities in present-day Mexico City. In urban scenery, these persons interact with each other, forming four groups according to their specific condition. Each of these groups becomes then a living organism, a blend ...

Crimes of the North Sea (2017)

Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo also has some contained violence about to explode on the brink of World War II. ...

Clean Sex (2015)

Mariana has an obsessive cleaning habit. After starting a troubled relationship with Enrique. She must accept that sex is dirty and impulsive. ...

The Grandpa's Song (2014)

An old peasant faces the dispossession of his land, inheriting the final lesson of life to his only granddaughter. ...

Doctor Funes Formula (2013)

Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doctor Moebius, who also wants to regain his youth. Martin goes to visit old Funes, but instead finds twelve ...

Lluvia de luna (2012)

"Moon Rain" - Sometimes, when the moon is favourable and a mother is driven by a deep desire, she can pronounce the words given to enable the soul of her daughter out of limbo and ronde on Earth, as when she was alive. The spell is immediate and, in secon ...

Days of Grace (2012)

Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive. ...

Daniel & Ana (2009)

Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires. ...

Nesio (2008)

It is a light and amusing story about Nemesio, a small time drug dealer who has never managed to get away from his mother or his childhood traumas, and carries on his back the stigma of a born loser. This he struggles to overcome, but finds it impossible. ...

Pamela: secretos de una pasión (2008)

This is the story of the problems of a young 21-year-old woman who, in the context of modern Mexico, tries to escape reality with the false relief granted by drugs and casual sex. Pamela gets involved with an older man called Victor, in an unboundedly pass ...

Un retrato de Diego (2007)

Documentary film about Diego Rivera produced by his grandson, director Diego Rivera Lopez and released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rivera's death. Rivera Lopez says, "In the 50 years since his death, my father's image has been obscured by the re ...

Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra (2007)

Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she rejects him ...

El brassier de Emma (2007)

It was the year of 1962 when I turned 12 and my breasts began to grow. Cecilia, my sister, went to study in Paris, I was left alone with my parents and their problems. I discovered that the breasts made men and women crazy, while mine began to draw the att ...

Paper Cemetery (2007)

A thriller about four young people who investigate the murder of a woman who worked in the National Archive. They discover that she had stolen documents incriminating an ex president and a high level police officer involved in crimes during the Dirty War. ...

Eréndira the Untamable (2006)

ERENDIRA IKIKUNARI is a beautifully shot action film that recreates the 16th century legend of Erendira, a young Purepecha woman who became an icon of bravery during the destruction of indigenous Mexico by the Spanish conquistadors. When the Spanish arrive ...

Los Pajarracos (2006)

Miguel Sanabria is a masked philandering wrestler who will live great adventures to fulfill his dream of wrestling in Los Angeles. This is a hilarious comedy in which good and bad intentions, addictions, and sects, play a decisive role in our hero's attemp ...

Nadie te habla: Manos libres (2005)

Two students at a Mexico City university are desperate to attend an Acapulco rave — so desperate that they'll kidnap a girl to raise the funds to get there. ...

The Eighth Day of Creation (2003)

At the end of the eighth day the Creator has taken refuge in a dark dungeon . ...

To Love Too Much (2002)

Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad and live off the rents. Laura travels to Spain to start off the project, and Beatriz remains alone in Mexico waiting for the right moment to catch up to her siste ...

Streeters (2001)

Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work. ...

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 ...

Ave María (1999)

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

Angel of Light (1998)

An ancient warrior is looking to correct the error that cost him to lose heaven. ...

Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman (1996)

Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are both attracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa: he admires his power while she admires his virility. A ...

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 ...

The Food of Fear (1994)

In an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón, he and his wife Petra have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the gir ...

Miroslava (1993)

The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbing portrait of a lonely woman. ...

Sólo con tu pareja (1992)

Tomás Tomás is a young yuppie playboy with a string of discarded girlfriends. But when Silvia, the victim of one of his adventures, tries to get revenge by typing "positive" on his AIDS test, Tomás experiences for the first time the realities of love an ...

Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian trib ...

Contigo en la distancia (1991)

Lola (1989)

A single mother sells clothes on the streets to support her daughter in Mexico City after the earthquake. ...

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 ...

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988)

An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a chicken coop. Father Gonzaga is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the ...

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 ...

El ombligo de la luna (1986)

After the destruction of Mexico City by criminal gangs, a group of young people guided by Aztec beliefs and codices desperately search for the mythical Aztlán to inhabit it once again. ...

Hiram na Kasintahan (1954)

A son of a rich man gives his son an ultimatum to merry or be written out of his will. The son had a best friend who has a girlfriend so the three decides to fool the father by pretending his best friend's girlfriend to be his. ...

The Obscure Spring (2014)

Igor is a plumber; Pina serves coffee. It is winter and they both deeply desire each other, but they are not free. In trying to figure out how to realize their love, she decides to make a lion costume for her little son and he decides to buy a photocopying ...