Claudio Obregón

Más allá del muro (2009)

A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of the house, invade it secretly searching for a new place to stay. In spite of their differences in age and per ...

The Zone (2007)

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within t ...

Rizo (1999)

The life of great playwright Alejandro del Rey, his searches, his principles, his women and a hostile environment are the backdrop for a wonderful tale of carnal passions, aesthetic obsessions and love for living. ...

Doble muerte (1999)

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. ...

Midaq Alley (1995)

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeou ...

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 ...

El Mutilador (1991)

The sadistic sexuality of a doctor makes beautiful women disappear. A brave reporter gets an interview with the maniac, during which she delves into the depths of her unbalanced mind, little by little she will discover that she is dealing with someone beyo ...

Acorralado (1989)

Revolutionary on the run from a government hit squad kidnaps a landowner's daughter for protection. ...

Vuelve a tu primer amor (1989)

Short film by Paco del Toro ...

El otro crimen (1988)

A sewing factory owner of Lebanese descent rapes a female worker, kills his homosexual partner to frame him for embezzlement, and murders a woman he falls in love with because she is Mexican and he does not want to mix their bloodlines. A detective follows ...

Violent Stories (1985)

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film. ...

Terror and Black Laces (1985)

A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life. ...

Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra (1981)

While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation condu ...

Pedro Páramo (1981)

The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago abandoned his wife. ...

Adriana del Rio, actriz (1979)

The Recourse to the Method (1978)

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultura ...

Life Changes (1976)

An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn... ...

Apuntes (1976)

Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party. ...

Letters from Marusia (1975)

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible ...

El juicio de Martín Cortés (1974)

A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of investigating the crime. ...

The Encounter of a Lonely Man (1974)

Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his ...

La derrota (1973)

Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972)

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution. ...

Emiliano Zapata (1970)

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution. ...

The Young Animals (1970)

A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems. ...

Narda or The Summer (1970)

Two friends on a summer getaway find and fall for a mysterious woman who will change their lives forever. ...

Memories of the Future (1969)

A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is li ...

Mariana (1968)

As a teenager and student at a convent school, young Mariana runs away with her boyfriend, provoking the wrath of her father who sends her to Switzerland for ten years. ...

Pedro Paramo (1967)

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

Amelia (1966)

After going through the stages of courtship and marriage, Amelia and Jorge's apparent perfect love ends in estrangement, boredom, abandonment, and tragedy. ...

The Beloved Ones (1965)

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings. ...

Tajimara (1965)

First of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity. ...

La creación artística. Gironella (1965)

This short film explores the life of Mexican painter and writer Alberto Gironella. ...

La creación artística. Cuevas (1965)

This short film focuses on Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas, who through his work challenged the conventions of Mexican muralism. ...