Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately cost his nation half of its territory

Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.

Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.

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Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.

The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.

The 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. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.

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 depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.

Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.

Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.

Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival

President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.