María Rojo

Tespis Teporocho (2025)

In "Tespis Teporocho", a boy who interacts with vagabonds thirsty for knowledge, finally absorb them from an unexpected teacher. ...

The Portrait’s Secret (2024)

A true story, with multiple short stories that show human rights violations and economic exploitation within religious and government institutions. ...

Podcast, Rapaces Nocturnos (2024)

Atypical Pirate (2024)

A neuro-diverse computer genius with an obsession for pirates finds himself on the run in Guadalajara Mexico when he is framed for embezzling from a deep state cabal. With the help of local street children, he avoids his pursuers while trying to clear his ...

Pole Dance (2023)

Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner strength by practicing pole dance she meets Jaime, who gets obsessed with her, unleashing a story of abuse and gender violence. ...

Malvada (2022)

A desperate mother contacts his son's ex-girlfriend to tell her that he's about to marry a wicked witch. ...

A Not So Merry Christmas (2022)

A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on. ...

Mi Canción (2021)

"Mi Canción" follows the rise of young Guadalajara rapper C-Kan, as he realizes the danger he put himself in by working with the local Cartel. After falling in love with Valeria, she convinces him to leave this llife of crime and pursue his dream and beco ...

The Day I Lost Myself (2020)

Xochil is a woman who must immerse in her past to find herself, opening the doors to a world that she thought was long forgotten. ...

Valentina's Wedding (2018)

Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico. ...

The Cousin (2018)

A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs. ...

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo (2017)

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work. ...

Crimes of the North Sea (2017)

Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo also has some contained violence about to explode on the brink of World War II. ...

Gabo & Cinema (2016)

It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to b ...

She's Ramona (2015)

Ramona is fat woman with too much weight and barely any luck. She recalls a childhood filled with moral abuse by her mother, sister and friends, calling her silly offensive names referencing her overweight. When she became an adult, things didn't really ge ...

Las Horas Contigo (2015)

Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same week her beloved grandmother becomes gravely ill. Spending her last days at her grandmother's side, Ema is forced to spend time with her estranged, larger than ...

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 ...

Castle Chronicle (2014)

Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes intertwine, around Tepito and its identity as a neighborhood, revealing the social prejudices that manifest themselves in classism and racism, as part of a historical rea ...

A Shred Of Mist (2014)

After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture. ...

The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro (2014)

After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down. ...

Cloroform (2012)

Life of boxing in Mexico city, bets, deception, love, crime and courage takes place in the lives of amateur boxers to professional fighters. ...

Todos hemos pecado (2011)

No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themsel ...

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. ...

File of Attempted Murder (2010)

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz. ...

Exquisite Corpse (2010)

Dark humor that shows human misery. ...

Me importas tú... y tú (2009)

Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star. ...

El Garabato (2008)

The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lead him to mature with a single blow. Rodolfo helps Frida in a car accident while she orders him to deliver ...

Under the Same Moon (2007)

Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. ...

El malogrado amor de Sebastián (2006)

Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait. ...

Amor (2006)

The presence and tortuous inner life of a film student stimulate the creativity of Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and promote the making of a film, Rencor. A combination of fiction and behind the scenes. ...

A Wonderful World (2006)

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

Dos auroras (2005)

When her son Mauricio suffers a severe crisis, Aurora, a wealthy woman from Guadalajara, returns from Greece to try to help him with the possible disclosure of the identity of his father. ...

El edén (2004)

A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to ...

The Mystery of the Almond Trees (2004)

A pair of macho private detectives pose as a gay couple to gain access into the world of a perverted wealthy widow, Doña Josefina, also known as "Mrs. Open Mind." The widow's summer home, it seems, is a legendary lightning rod for scandal because of myste ...

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 ...

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (2001)

Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' fr ...

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 ...

Reclusorio (1997)

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia ...

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. ...

Alta Tensión (1997)

A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money. ...

Reencuentros (1997)

The Overturning Of The Heart (1996)

1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute. ...

De muerte natural (1996)

Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood. ...

Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika T ...

Salón México (1996)

In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the lif ...

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. ...

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 ...

La señorita (1994)

Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman. ...

Passionate Mobile (1994)

Gyula Kodar is a commissioner who investigates the murder of an American executive. Keep track of Macabí, an ex and former lover of Mary Laya, widow of the victim. With the help of Kelly, a prostitute who is his sometime lover, Gyula able to find Macabí ...

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 ...

Encuentro Inesperado (1993)

Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The journey has been long and Pilar wants to rest. Dismissed his driver and his butler; will try to sleep until breakfast time. The diva dreams of being killed by one of ...

Autumn (1993)

A woman, who lives alone with her mother, invents a fantasy life to escape her reality. ...

Las mil y una aventuras del metro (1993)

La casa de los cuchillos (1992)

El chupes (1992)

A bureaucrat sees how little by little his world is disintegrating because of alcoholism. ...

Forbidden Homework (1992)

A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival. ...

Tequila (1992)

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a c ...

Homework (1991)

Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love. ...

Danzón (1991)

A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance. ...

Blue Memories (1991)

Drug-trade kingpin tries to coerce a woman into marriage, but her former boyfriend turns up and she finds new reasons to resist being pressured. ...

El extensionista (1991)

The Legend of a Mask (1991)

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

Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta (1991)

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into ...

Infamia (1991)

MARÍA ROJO, who established herself as a great actress in "Rojo Amanecer", "Danzón" and "La Tarea", offers us yet another of her excellent performances in this stupendous film, based on a chilling true event that shook public opinion. Directed by Luis C ...

With Fear in the Veins (1990)

Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes. ...

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. ...

La sombra del ciprés es alargada (1990)

Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from that moment will be responsible for his education. Pedro begins an almost familiar relationship with Doña Gr ...

Dying in the Gulf (1990)

The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy ...

La mudanza (1990)

Between chargers, noise and improvisedly placed furniture, a couple experiences a violent marital crisis, ignoring that they are observed by many characters that will soon face them with their own demons. Inspired by a work by Vicente Leñero, Gabriel Rete ...

Bathroom Intimacy (1989)

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

Las asesinas del panadero (1989)

Mexican feature film ...

Break of Dawn (1988)

The true story of the first Spanish-language radio announcer and political activist, Pedro J Gonzalez ...

All Souls' Day (1988)

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed. ...

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 ...

Living Is What Matters (1987)

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. T ...

Los confines (1987)

Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones. ...

Zapata en Chinameca (1987)

Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata. ...

Astucia (1986)

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. ...

The Humiliated (1986)

Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent. ...

Robachicos (1986)

One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City. ...

Me llaman la Chata Aguayo (1986)

Mexican feature film ...

Viaje al paraíso (1985)

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

The Heart of the Night (1984)

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become r ...

Under the Shrapnel (1983)

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him. ...

Deceitful Appearances (1983)

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside. ...

Confidencias (1982)

Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles, but... ...

The Eve (1982)

Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered. ...

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 ...

The Enemy Sister (1979)

A 1979 short by Rosario Hernández. ...

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 ...

Naufragio (1978)

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. ...

New World (1978)

Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The ...

Idilio (1978)

Short film that seeks to identify human relationships from the deconstruction of love. ...

Lo mejor de Teresa (1977)

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree. ...

Las Poquianchis (1976)

Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants. ...

The Heist (1976)

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the ...

Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)

Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his sexual problems, uptight Dianne has an affair with a druggie star college basketball player all while trying to expose another doctor's malpractice, and ju ...

Castle of Purity (1973)

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings. ...

The Cubs (1973)

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself. ...

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 ...

Forbidden Kisses (1956)

Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband. ...

Ayotzinapa (2015)

This film is a story, testimony and documentation of the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers, which exposes the criminal complicity between the police and military authorities, between the political and economic elites and criminal organizations in ...