Películas de Socorro Avelar

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother...

A sensual and painful memory of the Mexican Revolution.

An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom...

Rich man who owns an island sanctuary is involved in some shady business. Meanwhile, his daughter... and also meanwhile, the tribe of hippies that...

Directed by Federico Weingartshofer

Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary...

A young woman uses witchcraft to take her revenge on an artist who dumped her.

Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident. After the accident, she is the only one that...

India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.

Poor 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...

When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the...

A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood.

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A...

After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.

Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the...

A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity...

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town,...

Good son vs bad son melodrama complicates life on the hacienda.

The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs...