Alma Muriel

Territorio sin ley

Fernando Durán Rojas

Roberto 'El Flaco' Guzmán, Alma Muriel

Mexican feature film

Confesiones de una adolescente

Julián Soler

Hilda Aguirre, Jorge Rivero

Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!

National Mechanics

Luis Alcoriza

Manolo Fábregas, Lucha Villa

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.

Historias violentas

Carlos García Agraz, Gerardo Pardo

Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alma Muriel

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Retrato de una mujer casada

Alberto Bojórquez

Alma Muriel, Gonzalo Vega

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.

Luna de sangre

Luis Antúnez

Humberto Zurita, Alma Muriel

Mexican feature film

Lo mejor de Teresa

Alberto Bojórquez

Tina Romero, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

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

Cuando tejen las arañas

Roberto Gavaldón

Alma Muriel, Angélica Chain

Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.

Amor libre

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Julissa, Alma Muriel

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.

El preso No. 9

Alfredo B. Crevenna

Gerardo Reyes, Alma Muriel

Domestic melodrama about infidelity set against an illegal immigration/"making a better life" background.

Papa en onda

Rogelio A. González

Joaquín Cordero, Rosario Granados

Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.

Burlesque

René Cardona

Lyn May, Polo Ortín

Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience members.

Los corrompidos

Emilio Gómez Muriel

Julio Alemán, Zulma Faiad

Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc...

El valle de los miserables

René Cardona Jr.

Hugo Stiglitz, Ana Luisa Peluffo

Barcelona sur

Jordi Cadena

Marta Molins, Alma Muriel

Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her, although she is not free, since depends on her pimp "Toni". But Gumer will persuade Charo to abandon Toni and form, along with other friends, a band to start businesses on their own.

El tonto que hacía milagros

Mario Hernández

Miguel Ángel Ferriz Jr., Gastón Padilla

A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers.