Carmen Beato

Mayfly (2025)

Emilia is a teenager with the ability to see people who are about to die shine. Always lonely and focused on the future, she is faced with reality when she sees a schoolmate shine, at the same time that she begins a love relationship with Renata, who will ...

Hijo de familia (2024)

Newborn (2024)

When a young couple's first baby is born intersex, they are thrust into a challenging journey of discovery and decision-making. As they navigate the complexities of intersexuality, they confront both their own uncertainties and the societal pressures surro ...

Hijo de familia (2024)

I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me (2023)

A writer's career — and entire life — suddenly goes off script when he falls prey to a dangerous web of criminals right before moving to Barcelona. ...

Sonata (2023)

Bendita Suegra (2023)

Andrea, a successful veterinarian who loves her job and is in a relationship with Lucio, an up-and-coming lawyer who grew up in the country. Lucio has some news for Andrea: his mother is turning 60 and is throwing a big party to celebrate. Andrea visits th ...

Can't Quit Mom (2022)

At the Holly Day of The Deaths, a mother returns and finds that her three sons are desconsidered, ugly and lazy. ...

Lonesome Collectors (2018)

Julio, a young man with few social skills, meets Mara, a girl with whom he shares a weakness for robbing other people's houses. ...

Time without Pulse (2016)

Bruno, 19 years old, has not begun his sexual life. He feels guilty about his brother's death and one of his exgirlfriends, who happens to be his first love, is back in town to help him out. ...

7:19 (2016)

At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting for rescue. ...

Ladrones (2015)

Alejandro Toledo comes out of his retirement from crime to help a community reclaim land stolen from them by a beautiful but ruthless businesswoman and her clan. ...

The Similars (2015)

Eight people experience a strange phenomenon while waiting for a bus at a remote station on a rainy October night. ...

Between Night and Day (2013)

Francisco, a man with autism resides secluded, ignored and locked away. He's a burden on his brothers, and decides to flee into the forest, where he befriends a rat. ...

After Lucia (2012)

Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind. ...

Bacalar (2011)

Santiago and Mariana, two twelve year-old friends, one day, while pretending to be detectives, accidentally catch a gang of animal traffickers on video and the game comes true. ...

El principio de la espiral (2011)

Ana dies while attempting to have an abortion. Jeronimo, her boyfriend, falls into a deep depression after his failed suicide. Ana's mother takes care of him bringing him back to the family. Jeronimo, distraught, should make final decisions about what is r ...

We Are What We Are (2010)

After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition. ...

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. ...

Marea de Arena (2009)

Love, passion and madness are found in this film packed with intrigue, tension and suspicion. Juan, an obsessive photographer who lives an isolated life, decides to take his wife and son with him to the Argentinean Patagonia. There he discovers that his wi ...

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 ...

Viva High School Musical: Mexico (2008)

Football captain Cristóbal discovers that his neighbor and classmate, Mariana, has changed a lot over the summer. Meanwhile, Luli is still as vain as ever and overshadows her poor brother, Fernando. As a new year begins at High School Mexico (HSM, initial ...

La vida inmune (2008)

Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, immers ...

Two Embraces (2007)

Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. Per the ...

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 ...

Sex, Love, and Other Perversions (2006)

Composed of eight stories with comic overtones, all share the central theme of "love" and the extremes to which people will go to achieve it: unrequited love, deception and lust. They all offer a different take on the most difficult of human emotions: love ...

A Wonderful World (2006)

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico. ...

Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer (2002)

After a strict upbringing and the death of his beloved sister, Aro Tolbukhin leaves Hungary for Guatemala. Taken in as a political refugee at a mission, Aro grows close to Sister Carmen and becomes part of the community, but a series of misfortunes drive h ...

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 ...

Before Night Falls (2000)

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba. ...

Gimme Power (2000)

When a Mexican film director becomes fed up with the crime and corruption in his homeland, he decides to single-handedly take on a powerful band of criminals. ...

Sex, Shame & Tears (1999)

A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. The presence of guests triggers lust, rejection, infidelities, reconciliation and other consequences. ...

El amor de tu vida S.A. (1996)

A company helps people by arranging romantic dates, offering them to find for the ideal lover. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Va de Nuez (1986)