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The Containment (2025)

A girl is possessed by a dark and mysterious entity. She will fight with all the elements at her disposal to get rid of it. Neither her mother, nor traditional medicine, nor a supposed expert in exorcisms, will be able to make the demon disappear, until a ...

Fleeting Reflections (2023)

Fabián, a young man who just lost his parents, moves to the mansion where his aunt Lili and his cousin Isabel live. As days go by, Fabián will notice the strange habits of his relatives seem to suggest they are something more than human. ...

Torn from Her Arms (2021)

A mother and daughter who fled violence in El Salvador must find their way back to each other after being separated at the U.S. border and detained in detention centers in different states. ...

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. ...

Camila (2018)

Twelve-year-old Camila is going through a difficult time. An introverted girl who seldom interacts with her classmates, she finds refuge in art in general and her sketchbook in particular. ...

Parallel Courses (2016)

Gaby, Fer's mother and Silvia, Diego's mother, live their lives happily, until one day, due to Diego's kidney disease they find out that the kids were switched at birth. In order to save Diego', both mothers end up in a legal battle to see who will have th ...

Suave Patria (2012)

Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the police. Thanks to this performance are "hired" by Mr. Mauricio Tavares to play a practical joke on dangerous ...

Así es la Suerte (2011)

Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Despite Ramiro´s efforts, the young man dies before his eyes, which leads him to believe that he has caught h ...

Under the Salt (2008)

A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's st ...

Tear This Heart Out (2008)

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of pos ...

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. ...

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 second Chance (2001)

Julia and Moises fell in love and got married when they were young, idealistic, and passionate; now in their 30s, their marriage has cooled and their lives have sunken into the mediocrity they had sought to avoid. This realization inspires a quest to regai ...

Dust To Dust (2000)

Rodrigo and Rocco join their families to hold a birthday party for their grandfather. Rodrigo is a regular middle-class teenager, while Rocco is rather more unconventional, indie magazine writer, and has deep conflicts with his father. ...

Recipes to Stay Together (1996)

"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. Afte ...

On the Air (1995)

Alberto is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife and his free and careless life in the 60s. Alberto remembers, and his memories don't let him live his present life with Ana, his current girlfriend. ...

Me voy a escapar (1992)