Gabriela Roel

V/H/S/85 (2023)

Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s. ...

La peste del insomnio (2020)

30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion. ...

Tenants (2018)

A couple arrives to an apartment complex where santeria and witchcraft are common practice. ...

Desde el más allá (2017)

A group of ambitious new filmmakers wants to sell a broadcaster a television program involving ghosts and paranormal events. They have lots of special effects, but special effects aren't necesary when something from beyond is lurking. ...

El Jeremías (2016)

In Sonora, Mexico. Jeremías, an eight year old, who finds out he is a gifted child initiates a journey of self discovery. When an opportunistic physiologist makes contact with Jeremías, a new world of experiences open up to him but at the expense of bein ...

It's Better If Gabriela Doesn't Die (2008)

Miguel is a prominent writer of soaps that gets rid of a policeman who stops him for driving intoxicated by telling him the end of the current remake of the hit soap opera "Destiny of Love". This time, as Michael tells the police officer, Gabriela won't d ...

The Professor's Sins (2008)

What begins as a refuge turns into a battleground when a female professor (Claudia Vega) releases the bitterness she's carried for years into the arms of a much younger lover -- only to find out that he's one of her students. Things become complicated when ...

I Murder Seriously (2002)

A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been handed a most unusual case -- a number of local prostitutes have been murdered, and it's up to Martinez t ...

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 ...

Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños (1996)

Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident. After the accident, she is the only one that remember seeing this man, so she decides to search for him. ...

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. ...

Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally. ...

In The MIddle of Nowhere (1993)

A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. ...

City of the Blind (1991)

Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows ...

Bandidos (1991)

In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival. ...

Wooden Town (1990)

In this film festival favourite, every day is magical in the tiny logging town of San Miguel de Cruces, Mexico, thanks to director Juan Antonio de la Riva, who captures the rhythms of small-town life through the stories of its inhabitants. From a young cou ...

Viernes tragico (1990)

Old Gringo (1989)

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run. ...

Bathroom Intimacy (1989)

A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy. ...

El Dorado (1988)

The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. ...

Tales of the City (1988)

"Alguien se acerca", "Viajeros", "Lilí" and "Azul celeste", four stories directed by Ramón Cervantes, Rafael Montero, Gerardo Lara and María Novaro, respectively. ...

Love Around the Corner (1986)

Maria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a ...

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro (1986)

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

Three of Cups (1986)

While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both. ...

Viaje al paraíso (1985)

Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong. ...

La Casa Que Arde de Noche (1985)

A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner. ...