Movies: Jorge Fons

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters....

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the g...

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself....

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyo...

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have b...

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz....

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds....

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals....

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy....

The memory and testimony of two characters: Fernando García, known as Pinolito, who was a child actor in the seventies and Doña Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came out as a transvestite, some years ago, and now calls himself Coral Bon...

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings....

Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance....

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions....

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

Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless, constantly criticized by her mother, also named Elena, who is very refined, correct and bourgeois. The three o...

Mexican feature film...

Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection....

A fleeting instant in filial relations shows us the way in which we transmit to our children and others the meaning we attribute to life....

A child living with his parents in a lost city faces daily violence in a marginal environment. It was the first production of CUEC-UNAM....