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A raw and realistic story that connects four characters whose lives are affected by the dark world of drug trafficking. From the Colombian jungle to Miami, passing through Bogotá and Mexico, the plot shows how cocaine impacts everything from production to consumption. An intense series that reveals crime never brings favorable consequences.
A young man learns that people don't expect others to have good intentions.
A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
It's a cloudy day and two young men enter a photo booth. They're friends, co-workers at a construction site; both take advantage of a spare moment and the small space to smoke, talk and portray an extraordinary moment.
Two brothers wasting the night away break into an empty house.
Four gangsters are planning to have a fun afternoon but they never expected someone pranking them giving them a taste of their own violence.
A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this happen, he cuts a deal with his family, who require a dead body to pose as a double. Topillero is responsible of executing the plan. But on this journey he is reunited with his wife and son, whom he abandoned years ago.
Film from Armando Hernandez
Mexico 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.
Sara is a woman who was sexually abused and has been in pain ever since. Now, she has only one goal: to take revenge on every man who crosses his path, no matter what his intention is.
During the Mexican Revolution, Leandro and Odón, two war vultures, find a zebra. They mistakenly believe this to be an American horse and thus begin a journey in search of General Obregón, who they assume, will appoint them as colonels given their peculiar beast of burden. They partake in several adventures during their journey.
Boys On Film 5: Candy Boy features nine award-winning short films. Boys will be boys in Pascal-Alex Vincent's FAR WEST and CANDY BOY, where a farmyard and an orphanage get a gay makeover. GO-GO REJECT sees Flashdance obsessive Daniel aim for the stars, as SWEAT has Holby City's David Paisley infiltrating a bath house with unexpected results. Meanwhile, love proves to be timeless when LAST CALL unites past and present, but TWOYOUNGMEN, UT. hints at an uncertain future. Looking back on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, BLOCKS focuses on the sexual awakening of a peeping Tom. Two more young boys, a confused JAMES and mute DAVID, both reach out for an experienced hand, but will they find what they are looking for?
When his father passes away, Juan Pablo inherits his guitar. Decided to continue his father's legacy, he abandons his career and becomes a mariachi.
Ernesto has found a peculiar way to meet people and earn a living: provoking car accidents.
It is a light and amusing story about Nemesio, a small time drug dealer who has never managed to get away from his mother or his childhood traumas, and carries on his back the stigma of a born loser. This he struggles to overcome, but finds it impossible. By intent or otherwise, Nesio becomes involved in a homicide and an impossible love with a masked woman wrestler. All of this framed by downtown Mexico City.
A young mute student goes to the movies when ditching school, but changes his mind when he meets an unemployed man who tries to communicate with him. Through messages and games, the two will make a discovery they never imagined.
1951, Mexico City. After synthesizing the main component of the contraceptive pill, young scientist Luis Miramontes deals with the religious and personal consequences of his groundbreaking invention.
Viri owns "Amores", one of the last video stores in Mexico City. She's sad because nobody remembered her birthday. Augustin comes to rent an old movie almost at closing time. While they look for the movie, an employee closes the Video Store thinking it's empty. Filmed in real time and in one single shot, both, Viri and Agustin, will realize that love always operates in unexpected ways, as in the movies.
A groups of kids have a reckless party ignoring that their parent´s sins will fall over them
After eleven years of absence Ernesto returns to his hometown and reencounters his most intimate childhood friends. To have fun they steal an abandoned boat. In the middle of local anecdotes and blurred memories from the past, Ernesto finds himself bound to a place and a past that he though he had forgotten.
