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- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsCornelio WallMiriam ToewsMaria PankratzIn a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsSalvador SánchezJosé Carlos RuizManuel OjedaIn Mexico city, the most infamous jail "Lecumberri" three prisoners make a plan to introduce drugs.
- 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.
- DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsMarco LeonardiLumi CavazosRegina TornéWhen tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
- 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.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsAna Patricia RojoElsa María GutiérrezLeonor LlausásA 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsDaniel Giménez CachoClaudia RamírezLuis de IcazaA womanizer is falsely diagnosed with AIDS by a jealous lover and falls in love with a woman equally suicidal as he.
- DirectorLila AvilésStarsGabriela CartolAgustina QuinciTeresa SánchezA look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City's most luxurious hotels.
- 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.
- DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Martha NavarroEmma RoldánWhen a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.
- DirectorClaudia Sainte-LuceStarsLisa OwenXimena AyalaSonia FrancoMartha, a single mother of four children, lets Claudia move into her home. As Claudia bonds with the family, Martha's health slowly deteriorates.
- 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".
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsRegina CardoFlorencia Vega MoctezumaMy grandmother??s lodging house situated at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City. When I was ten years old I met one of them. His name was Jorge Riosse. My grand mother remembers him as a very special young man that filled up her life with art and love. But she also suspects that he murdered a dozen women.
- DirectorLuis EstradaStarsDamián AlcázarJoaquín CosioErnesto Gómez CruzAfter 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.
- DirectorMariana ChenilloStarsFernando LujánEnrique ArreolaAri BrickmanThis story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora had devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.
- DirectorEverardo GoutStarsCarlos BardemKristyan FerrerTenoch HuertaMexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.
- DirectorRodrigo PláStarsEmilia DíazErnesto LiottiJorge TemponiA middle-aged, single mother of three cares for her eighty year old father, and they are pushed to the breaking point.
- DirectorAmat EscalanteStarsArmando EspitiaAndrea VergaraLinda GonzálezHeli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
- DirectorJorge Ramírez SuárezStarsKristyan FerrerIngeborg SchönerAdriana BarrazaRamon, a young Mexican boy, tries to cross the border for the fifth time but fails. His friend tells him about his aunt living in Germany and that she has a better life over there. Ramon then goes to Germany to find his friend's aunt.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando ReyViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixPedro ArmendárizFernando FernándezDuring the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsArturo de CórdovaDelia GarcésAurora WalkerA husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
- DirectorAlejandro Iglesias MendizabalStarsCarlos AragónGibrán AriasAndrés DelgadoThree friends have a special mission: find some keys lost in a pile of dead leaves.
- DirectorAlberto Saúl Arnaut EstradaOn March 19th 2010, the Mexican government announced the death of two hitmen, armed to the teeth, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. Days later, it was discovered that they were in fact honor students who had been tortured and murdered by the military, who later tried to disappear them in a common grave.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsManolo FábregasLucha VillaHéctor SuárezA 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.