Héctor Bonilla

La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano (2024)

Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory. ...

Julia And The Portal To The Abyss (2021)

Julia is a woman searching for the meaning of life. When Julia is kidnapped by a homeless man, she is transported to a magic world where she will have to fight fantastic creatures. ...

Grumpy Christmas (2021)

Bitter, grumpy patriarch Don Servando and his family travel to spend Christmas with Doña Alicia, a relative who becomes his "ultimate nemesis". It may be Christmas, but Don Servando is set on proving to everyone that Doña Alicia is a terrible person. ...

Tell Me When (2020)

After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he falls in love with a female friend who may not feel the same. ...

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. ...

Meat Stew, Original Recipe (2019)

A dysfunctional family reunites after the grandmother's death, who was a famous cooker of the traditional mexican dish: mole de olla. ...

Ana and Bruno (2017)

Ana, a nine year old girl, arrives with her mother to an isolated beach with the intention to rest and to know the sea. There, she discovers that they are under a terrible threat, therefore she is obligated to look for help with her father in order to save ...

Contéstame (2017)

Father Never Bothered (2016)

Mr. Villegas, an old man with old-fashioned thoughts, has to move with his son after he has been kicked out from his retirement home. ...

The Hotel (2016)

A single mother named Maria unexpectedly inherits an hotel from her deceased father, where she will find the truth about her past while she tries get the business going. ...

Thirty Something, Single and Fabulous (2016)

A woman in her mid-30s breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years and goes on a journey of self-discovery. ...

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. ...

The Last One and then We Go (2015)

A group of mariachis receives a letter to be part of the National Mariachi Contest in Mexico City. In order to be able to win they will need to travel together and solve their differences since their prime was 30 years ago. ...

The Walls Talk (2012)

A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, socia ...

Preguntas sin respuesta (2005)

El secreto oculto (2003)

The faithful are given advance warning (via a TV broadcast) that demons are going to be unleashed on Earth during an upcoming lunar eclipse. ...

A Breakfast Chronicle (2000)

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the ...

Luces de la noche (1998)

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

El asesinato (1997)

Doble indemnización (1996)

When a man dies, he leaves a life insurance policy in his daughters' names, and his sons-in-law hatch a plan to collect it twice. ...

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. ...

Amor que mata (1994)

Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile to his face. Just when life seems more promising than ever, one beutiful night death once again took a tol ...

Serpientes y escaleras (1992)

Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous... ...

El bulto (1992)

After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs have changed, and Mexicans of the nineties are strangers for a man sleeping since 1971. Lauro will have to deal w ...

De un blanco mortal (1992)

The Legend of a Mask (1991)

A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel" ...

Red Dawn (1990)

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters. ...

Muerte, miseria y pecado (1988)

Enamorada (1984)

Lucía, a beautiful stewardess, discovers love and betrayal when she falls in love in New York. ...

Un adorable sinverguenza (1983)

A young man and woman are running a phony fortune parlor. One day an attractive young woman enters their parlor to get her fortune read. The man makes his usual behind-the-scenes telephone call to learn of the young woman's background while his female acco ...

El Brazo de Oro (1979)

Timothy Leach moves in to an abandoned farm house with his wife. On the way a man befriends Timothy with the intention to pass Marlene to him (A golden arm brace that gives who ever wears it dead eye shooting accuracy). A group of bandits notice them and s ...

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 ...

Los hijos de Sanchez (1978)

The Sanchez clan have seen the worst of times, but they have survived by sticking together. When Sanchez's oldest daughter Consuelo plans to build a life of her own, the family and Sanchez face an enormous challenge. ...

The Children of Sanchez (1978)

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to pr ...

Mina, viento de libertad (1977)

Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, but fo ...

Matinée (1977)

Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the ro ...

The Mexican (1977)

On the border between Mexico and the United States, there is a man willing to do anything. Handsome and adventurous, he prepares to live a new life that will make him a legend. ...

Meridiano 100 (1976)

The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted. ...

The Birthday of the Dog (1975)

Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best friend to a young man, in a friendship that becomes so very close that the younger man murders his wife. He is helped by the other man. The husband wants t ...

Yo Amo, Tu Amas, Nosotros... (1975)

A young girl, María, has 17 "boyfriends" and a fiancé approved by her mother. On his deathbed, Don Eustaquio sends Arturo, a lawyer, in search of his wife Victoria and his daughter Maria, whom he abandoned under pressure from her family. Arturo finds the ...

Canción de Navidad (1974)

Scrooge Retelling ...

The Monastery of the Vultures (1973)

In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide. ...

Una vez, un hombre... (1971)

Young factory worker becomes apprentice to an alchemist, and he ends up going to the moon to repair equipment belonging to The Three Fates. ...

Los novios (1971)

Near the end of a very long engagement, two lovers break away from each other to cut loose and have one crazy weekend before their wedding. ...

El Cambio (1971)

Two young people leave city life for the simplicity of life in the province. Unfortunately, the beach they are going to live next to is being polluted by a local factory. ...

There's Always a First Time (1971)

Narda or The Summer (1970)

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

Tres amigos (1970)

Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity. ...

Patsy My Love (1969)

Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus ...

Pax? (1968)

Mexican experimental feature film, made for the 1968 olympics. ...

Mónica y el Profesor (2004)

Monica is a rich swiss girl who is kidnapped with a university teacher. Together they discuss their future and their ideas about life. ...

Red Dawn (1990)

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters. ...