Marta Zamora

A Good Death Beats a Dull Life (2006)

The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The story of these eccentric women combines love, potions, black humor and death. ...

Me llaman Madrina (1997)

The Food of Fear (1994)

In an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón, he and his wife Petra have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the gir ...

Traficantes de Niños (1992)

Film about child trafficking in México. ...

Vuelve a tu primer amor (1989)

Short film by Paco del Toro ...

Noche de Calífas (1987)

The House of the Pelican (1978)

An elementary school teacher tries to rebuild her life with her son, which is the result of a rape in a distant city. ...

Las cenizas del diputado (1977)

A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own. ...

Volver, volver, volver (1977)

Good son vs bad son melodrama complicates life on the hacienda. ...

Maten al León (1977)

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion). ...

The House in the South (1976)

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century. ...

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, s ...

The Coming of the King Olmos (1975)

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam? ...

El infierno tan temido (1975)

A woman abandons her partner, a journalist, but tortures him by sending him photos of her with her lovers. ...

They Call Him Marcado (1971)

The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town's resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, ...

Emiliano Zapata (1970)

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

The Children's Hour (1969)

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to whom he reluctantly tells stories and tries to keep entertained while waiting for his fee to be paid. ...

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. ...

La Otra Ciudad (1967)

Mexican feature film ...

The Zodiac Signs (1964)

A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood. ...

The Mind and the Crime (1963)

The discovery of a human torso thrown into a waterway, leads the viewer to observe the work of modern criminology and the task of special agents to track and record the psychopath's mentality through the elucidation of techniques present in the reality of ...