

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.

The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

Neil is torn between two loves: Marina, the European woman who comes to the United States to be with him, and Jane, the old flame from his hometown he reconnects with. Neil’s doubts about his life and loves are reflected in the crisis of faith experienced by Father Quintana, who only sees pain and the loss of hope in the world.

A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.

A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.

The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.

Dolores del RĂo
MarĂa Candelaria

Pedro Armendáriz
Lorenzo Rafael
Alberto Galán
El Pintor
Margarita Cortés
Lupe

Miguel Inclán
Don Damian

Beatriz Ramos
Reporter

Rafael Icardo
Priest

Julio Ahuet
Jose Alfonso
Lupe del Castillo
Bone-doctor (as Guadalupe del Castillo)
Lupe Inclán
Gossip

Salvador Quiroz
Judge
Nieves
Model