Jorge Zárate

Nada que ver (2023)

After Carlos is tasked to care for Paola, both characters must work out their differences to make their time together more pleasant. As time goes on, they are faced with lessons about trust, mutual respect, and perhaps love. ...

Si no crees, no existe (2022)

Iván lives in a small apartment in a large building. Resigned to observing a world in which he has little part, he believes that the only thing worth waiting for is to wait. An unexpected encounter with Alma will once again give him the opportunity to rec ...

Oliverio and the Pool (2022)

When something unexpected happens in Oliverio's family, all he wants to do is walk away. He settles on a deckchair by the pool and decides there is no reason to move. Life swirls around him, revealing secrets and presenting new challenges. Through moments ...

Smile (2019)

A hitman decides to put aside his life of crime to pursue his lifelong dream: to become a profesional comedian. ...

American Curious (2018)

A mexican chef meets her love interest in an american man. ...

Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels (2014)

They are not wild and crazy anymore, or at least they think so. Now, thanks to an offer nobody can't refuse, they will try to recapture that old rock and roll magic and give themselves a second chance. ...

The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)

TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a ...

Actors, Inc. (2013)

Thomas is a young actor, the adopted son of Don Antonio, director and founder of the theatrical company to witch he belongs and where he presents his plays. When Don Antonio dies, Thomas is in the need to reestablish his artistic abilities and of the compa ...

Filosofía natural del amor (2013)

Insects mate, stories are born. The concept of "love" gets put under the looking glass in this captivatingly maverick film. Manuel, a lonely 36-year-old, begins an unusual friendship with the much younger Alma. A young foreign couple set out on an idyll ...

There and Then (2013)

Story about the encounter between Temístocles and his godfather, whom he believes has killed and now comes back as a ghost to drive him mad. From drama to comedy to the absurd, Temístocles faces his own ghosts until he's about to lose control of himself. ...

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68' (2013)

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a studen ...

Citizen Buelna (2013)

Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa. ...

Expiration Date (2012)

Ramona's compulsive life becomes a wreck when she finds out, after a long search that Osvaldo, her only son, has died. ...

Asalto al cine (2011)

The story of four teenagers: Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata. Childhood friends living in public housing in a rundown area of Mexico City, search to trump idleness. They toy with the idea of robbing a movie theatre. Afflicted by their past and present stance, ...

We Are What We Are (2010)

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

Another Mexican (2010)

Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicia ...

El Infierno (2010)

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive. ...

Regresa (2010)

Mary is married to Ernest, a successful businessman who devotes all his time managing the business he inherited from his family. Therefore, he spends little time with Mary, to the extent that she suspects he has a mistress. Isabel is married to Adolfo, Doc ...

Walking Vengeance (2008)

A woman and her three partners-in-crime plan a revenge heist against her violent narco husband in order to get rid of him and steal his money. ...

Enlightened Blood (2008)

Six characters narrate their complex existence through his slides from one to another body, to form a network of shared memories and experiences. The need to explain this strange condition connects them via objects, messages and memories. ...

How Could I Not Love You? (2008)

Hugo and Julia are two high school students that have different dreams and goals. Their lives take different paths learning that in this life, everything has a price, and everyone has to pay his own. ...

Mezcal (2007)

A group of beings permeated by the lack of love, guilt, pain and a desire for revenge, meet on the day of a storm at a cantina in the mythical town of Parián, a place where all roads and all destinies converge. There they find consolation for their woes i ...

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 ...

Angel Dust (2007)

In the city of Latinopolis a man named Sacro is hired by a powerful company to carry out a very dangerous mission with the help of Caos, an angel hunter. Meanwhile in another part of the city Susana and Miguel, two Alter-globalization supporters are lookin ...

The Citrillo's Turn (2006)

1903, before the Revolution… The Citrillo’s Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions –love, betr ...

La invención de Morel (2006)

A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia. Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart. ...

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. ...

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II (2006)

The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with c ...

News from Afar (2005)

Under the notion that "you can not change the future, but the past," a young woman who has grown up in a poor village in the highlands, embarks on a spiritual journey to Mexico City seeking to break the cycle of family alienation and find hope. Fate will r ...

Stories of Disenchantment (2005)

In a world devoured by an invisible force known as disenchantment, the stories of three characters intertwine: Diego, who tries to make a movie about the dreams of Ximena, an adolescent experiencing her sexual awakening, who is secretly in love with him an ...

Tin Man (2005)

The night guard of a big warehouse gives every night food and a place to sleep to a couple of homeless: and old man a little girl. After having a nightmare, the guard feels guilty because of the terrible things he does to the little girl. ...

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. ...

A Silent Love (2004)

Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony. ...

Man on Fire (2004)

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life. ...

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (2004)

An American government hit man on the run makes a pact with two travelers to help him disappear in the Mexican jungle. ...

Nicotina (2003)

A hacker who is spying on a pretty neighbour messes up his assignment to break into Swiss bank accounts for Russian mobsters. ...

Dame Tu Cuerpo (2003)

German is a successful advertising exec who is about to marry beautiful ex-model, Jacqueline. However, Jacqueline can't stand German's best friend, Alex - a college football coach - on account of his gross behavior and adolescent attitudes towards women. B ...

Leftie (2003)

Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on him. ...

Ligerita (2003)

The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)

Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must c ...

Live (2002)

A soccer radio commentator pretending to be live must deal with his malfunctioning tv signal. But his signal is not the only one off. ...

The Faces of the Moon (2002)

The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, USA and Spain), invited to Mexico City to be the jury of the Third Annual Latin American Women's Film Festival. In six vertiginous days these women ...

Life Kills (2002)

A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning aft ...

Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good (2001)

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer invest ...

Warden of Red Rock (2001)

In 1910, John Flinders is warden of Red Rock Territorial Prison, in Arizona. When a condemned man's last request brings Flinders into contact with the man's widow, Flinders finds himself falling in love. Meanwhile, a new convict, Mike Sullivan, turns out t ...

Un mundo raro (2001)

Emilio is a young Mexican boy who dreams of becoming a comedian. He, his brother and his friends are involved in kidnapping. One day a TV presenter is kidnapped, and the encounter is seen by Emilio as an opportunity for fame. ...

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. ...

Herod's Law (1999)

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrup ...

Sweet Release (1997)

The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing. ...

Sucesos distantes (1996)

One couple (Carlos & Irene) are having troubles, because he suspects that Irene's hiding something about her past in Russia. To make things worst her ex-husband goes to Mexico and tells Carlos that her other ex-husband also is going to claim her as his pro ...