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- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsMarga LópezJorge Martínez de HoyosEnrique RochaAfter serving his conviction, a former gunman returns to his town planning to live a quiet life, however, the sons of a man he killed have other plans.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaArturo RipsteinStarsSilvia PinalJulissaMilton RodríguezTwo stories set in Río de Janeiro: The first (HO) is about a man who picks up a newlywed couple on the highway to Río; their car is wrecked and the man offers to deliver the bride to their honeymoon bungalow. Everything goes wrong when the man's wife catches him with the bride in his car. The second story (Divertimento) is about a woman who wants to kill her lover's wife, not knowing that her lover and his wife plan to stage the crime to blackmail her.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRenato SalvatoriDaniela RosenJulián PastorDuring the cristero revolution federalist Rosas arrives in a town together with his lover and a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. Based on Elena Garro novel.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsClaudio BrookRita MacedoArturo BeristáinThe story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsJorge LukeDiana BrachoClaudio BrookA gripping, shocking story of the Spanish Inquisition hunting Jews, believed to be the cause of a plague spreading in 16th century colonial Mexico. A monk reports a family practicing Jewish burial rites bringing devastating consequences.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPeter O'TooleCharlotte RamplingMax von SydowAt the beginning of WW2, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. They bring with them all conceivable provisions and their servants, and live in luxury in a mansion-like tent on the beach. After a short time, a group of uninvited friends arrive. They decimate the supplies and, in the course of a frenzied shooting party, kill every living animal on the island before leaving, bringing most of the servants with them. The only people left on the island are Liviu and his wife, their friend Larson, and one servant, Eusebio. The expected supplies do not arrive, the party has no way of communicating with the outside world, and passion is rife between the one woman and three men on the island. As supplies run short, mistrust, greed and jealousy threaten their idyllic life style.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsIsela VegaMario AlmadaSergio JiménezMatea is an orphan who assists the priest, Father Feliciano, in his parish. The village doctor tries to seduce her, but fails and proceeds to defame her into believing that Matea maintains relations with the priest.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRoberto CoboFernando SolerLucha VillaFamily honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón".
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsDiana BrachoIsabela CoronaManuel OjedaOld aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Narciso BusquetsErnesto Gómez CruzA former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsLucía MéndezPedro Armendáriz Jr.Fernando AllendeClaudia Bernal arrived in the U.S., pregnant by her filmmaker lover, who sets her up with a beach-front house. After his wife finds out, he hires men to rape Claudia and photograph the act.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Ernesto Gómez CruzGerardo AlbarránDuring the 1930's a very honest man (Villamosa) is sent as Regional Delegate from the Capital City to Yucatan State (a very afar city). Once there he finds a deep corrupted burocracy, leaded by the Govermernor's Secretary (Torres). When the Governor discovers this, fires Torres, but then he leads a military movement that end with the assasination of the governor. Torres offers the place to Villamosa treating him as a puppet. He accepts trying to remove the corruption, but he finds more problems than he thinks.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRafael Sánchez NavarroJuan Ignacio ArandaAline DavidoffA novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsErnesto Gómez CruzBlanca GuerraAlejandro ParodiPoor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsAlonso EchánoveDelia CasanovaErnesto YáñezSet in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsEvangelina SosaAlejandro ParodiDamián AlcázarPerla is a teenager who has been prostituted by her mother, Tomasa and acts as a dancer in a cabaret-brothel. The pianist who plays at the venue is a romantic singer-songwriter and inveterate poet who would like to make art out of a sordid situation. When "el Marro", a sick sailor stops at the place and falls in love with the girl, the mother tries to cut off that relationship, but fails to do so. Because she knows that they are actually siblings.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsErnesto LaguardiaJulieta EgurrolaBlanca GuerraThe film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaAlberto EstrellaBlanca GuerraA female cabaret artist has to leave Berlin, Germany, after an incident with the Nazis. Back in her motherland Mexico she tries and succeeds in remaking her career.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRegina OrozcoDaniel Giménez CachoSherlynThe life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsFrancisco RabalKaty JuradoEdwarda Gurrola"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio (Rabal) and Mamá Dorita (Jurado). They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa (Gurrola) the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsFernando LujánMarisa ParedesSalma HayekEvery Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsArcelia RamírezPatricia Reyes SpíndolaLuis Felipe TovarBased on the Greek tragedy MEDEA, this is a present day Mexican version, set in the seediest possible milieu of Mexico City. A woman abandoned by her husband, is thrown out of her apartment by her landlord - who is also her husband's new father-in-law. She is also about to lose custody of her two children to her husband, a low-life, second-rate boxer and opportunist. With the help of her godmother, she plans to take revenge on her husband.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaRafael InclánLuis Felipe TovarTwo men jump out from behind some cacti and beat a man over the head with a rock. They then take the body to the dead man's hut, and sit with his body for the night while they talk, complain and dance. Later at the police station, two women come to claim the body--a bitter, venomous wife and a younger prettier women. They fight and scrap until one of them get the responsibility for the body. Later we find out why the self-titled "King of Baseball" was killed.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsLuis Felipe TovarAriadna GilPatricia Reyes SpíndolaIn Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsMarta AuraMaría BarrancoAlejandro CamachoResidents of a bordello scurry to put together their outfits for an annual carnival.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsArcelia RamírezVladimir CruzPlutarco HazaIn a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaNora VelázquezSilvia PasquelIn the small hours of the morning, two elderly hookers return to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and her cross-dressing husband, the other with her loneliness. But that night they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin dwarves in masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the tiny men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops. But the doses prove fatal. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street.