Mario Zaragoza

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

An ex-cop in self-imposed witness protection in Mexico becomes a target when a fight video of his apprentice goes viral.

Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

On the way to the party of the year, four friends decide to play an old school prank that lands them in jail and unleashes a chain of events that will unfold throughout the course of one day.

Based on D. H. Lawrence's short story A Modern Lover. Nabuco comes back after a long absence and finally confesses his love for Mariela.

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.

Andrea constantly complains to her husband about their lack of money, and fed up with the situation, she cheats on him with Dante, a man who takes advantage of everyone to make a profit. As time goes by, Andrea realizes that she hasn't achieved what she wants with Dante either and begins looking for other ways to get easy money.

Three destinies collide in a ferocious underworld: a former porn actor turned hitman seeking to retire, a hermit with a lupine delusion thirsting for revenge, and a young gigolo torn between crime and love. Everything erupts in black humor and desire.

Potosi, a rural town in Latin America, is the crossfire of the ravaging that has devastated the north of the country. An accident along a deserted road connects three stories, an 82 year old goat herder that has not shot his gun in 40 years, a woman who is a victim of domestic violence and a humble peasant living on guard to protect his family from the country’s war against organized crime.

During his night shift, Alfonso Vera—a seasoned, veteran police officer—has a difficult night working alongside his new partner, Marco Garay, who relentlessly questions him about his personal and professional life. Between the lack of communication with his son—leaving him unsure if the boy is even home—and persistent inquiries regarding a work-related incident that has led to legal trouble, Alfonso is left completely on edge. Meanwhile, Alex Vera—Alfonso’s serious, reserved son, who lost his mother—returns from a date with his girlfriend, Mariana Ruizpalacio, only to find the Ruizpalacio family home partially destroyed.

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

Shunned and ignored for years by society in general, a lonely man develops a new ability, product of his own limitations: his ugliness, filthiness and poverty render him literally invisible from everyone else's gaze. Incited by his newfound power, the lonely man will begin to explore all the possibilities his new talent brings.

Mau and Chespi, two lifelong friends, find themselves at a critical moment in their lives. Both are on the verge of their 30th birthday, and both empty-handed. An unexpected event gives them the opportunity they have always been waiting for, to have "everything" overnight. Mau and Chespi embark on a journey that has no map - and no return. In less than twenty-four hours they find eight-hundred thousand dollars and gain the power to access the impossible. However, not everything is destined to fall their way, and their prize turns out to be nothing but payment for a shipment that never arrives.

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1903, before the Revolution… The Citrillo’s Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions –love, betrayal, jealousy, pillage- in an atmosphere of drunkenness and hallucination.

Leo meet Javier at a bus stop while he tries unsuccessfully to flirt with a colleague from work. Leo's comments make Javier suspect that he is getting into his head to read his mind.

Susana Carvente, a retired poet, is haunted by the ghost of her husband. On her sixtieth birthday, Susana reunites with Humberto, a bolero master she remembers from her youth, and a repressed attraction begins to resurface. Meanwhile, Susana stars in an interview where she relives dark moments from her marriage. At a crossroads, Susana must choose between what she believes is right, her past, or her freedom.

A story centered on the centuries-old feud between the aristocratic vampire race and their former slaves, the werewolves.

A policeman is fighting against the crimes of the region, and he will have to face the bureaucracy, the corruption of his corporation as well as his family to try to save his daughter.

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.

Based on a real event, where the municipal president, in order to clean the image of his people before a politician's visit, "throws" a group of mentally ill people into the desert.

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.

A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.

After her boss goes missing, Selma travels to a mountainous region called “La Frontera” to investigate his disappearance. In this primitive and dangerous locale, she will find a complex web of deception, betrayal, and murder, not to mention one very unfriendly dog.

Tori, a beautiful young woman, accidentally ends up with a criminal's merchandise and is accused of the death of a member of a Colombian cartel: “El Jefe.” Desperate Tori asks for help from her friends Camila and Priz. The three decide to sell the product to a well-known local cartel to solve their problems and request the help of "Shakira", a hitwoman who knows the market, but they do not know that the buyer with whom they are doing business is the original owner of the merchandise.

The short drama film follows the daily life of the Juan and Jorge, two brothers living on the streets of Mexico City. It won an Academy Award in 2001 for Best Live Action Short Film.

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Lola and Cuau, a progressive middle-class pair, and Iñigo and Majo, a young conservative, well-heeled duo, turn to artificial insemination as a last resort to have children. In a madcap twist based on actual events, a mix-up at the clinic results in each mom-to-be carrying the other one's baby.

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One day on the life of a young girl living in Guadalajara, a city plagued by a sensation of unsafety at all time.

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.

After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down.

Leonora, a 16 year old teenager with a dangerous gift, when she draws a person, either by divination or by the action of the same drawing this person dies. Grandma knows and doesn't want to expose the world to such evil power. Leonora lives locked at the top of a huge apartment building believing that she's a Princess and the world is full of monsters and other dangers so she thinks one day her Prince savior will come.

The very elegant Marsella comes to Mexico from Transylvania and is hired by Diamantina to work in her bar as a showgirl. She develops a relationship with one of the disco's choreographers, but things get complicated when she discovers that multiple men are in love with her. If that's not enough, chaos ensues when her international lover, who turns out to be a vampire, comes to Mexico to take her back with him.

In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

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Brenda and Sara are the most powerful women in Mexicali and they will do whatever it takes to maintain power no matter the consequences. A story full of action and eroticism that reflects today's society where the political class is involved with criminal groups to perpetuate themselves in power.

Archaeologist Katja Bennecke is in charge of an excavation site at the foot of a Mayan pyramid on the Mexican headland of Yucatán. By chance, she discovers the mask of Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish warrior described in legends who rose to become supreme general under the Majas: a sensational find! Her colleague Gerd, of all people, tries to steal the valuable piece. But she catches the thief, who is immediately arrested and dies shortly afterwards under mysterious circumstances in a Mexican prison. Katja's daughter Maren arrives unexpectedly - and is kidnapped in the street. They want to release Maren in exchange for the mask. But the precious find does not belong to Katja. To save her daughter, she has to become a thief herself...

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer investigating the disappearance of the murdered body and an architect hired to design the mausoleum to the memory of the possible dictator.

Don Gregorio did not know how to direct his four children. Each one went their own way after sharing a horrible common past. But now, the four return to face their father and pay the consequences of their actions.

In the early morning of November 25, 2008, Mexican singer Valentín Elizalde Valencia was executed after leaving a performance. Fausto Castro Elizalde, cousin of the singer and the only survivor of the attack, tells us what happened that night.

When a Mexican film director becomes fed up with the crime and corruption in his homeland, he decides to single-handedly take on a powerful band of criminals.

Due to the death of their mother, two sisters are taken in by their only aunt, who forces them to work to pay her expenses. After the attempted rape by her uncle, they run away and find themselves alone and helpless.

Tonatiuh and Maria experience a passionate and turbulent relationship. One night, in the heat of an argument, they suffer a dramatic automobile accident. Tonatiuh is left in a coma, where he sees Alicia, his nurse, including her in his dreams about Maria. Time later, Alicia has an accident and suffers amnesia while Tonatiuh wakes up. One year later, Tonatiuh and Alicia meet and an impossible love arouses from oblivion, haunted by the ghost of Maria's memories.

Jean Paul and Chema have been together ten years. They have successful careers, a comfortable home and many friends. But that's all turned turned upside down when close friend Ivana rescues Hendrix from his broken home and asks them to care for the boy. Hendrix's mother Nina is a drug addict who suffers at the hands of her abusive partner Patrick. The men begin to consider making Hendrix part of their family.

After a terrorist attack on Guatemala in the 1980's, a small child is left deaf and motherless. Now her father has to step up and take care of her by himself while the fear of inner armed conflict looms over the country.

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In the rearrangement of the territories, the mafia puts all its cards into play, several capos have been released and revenge is activated, beautiful women are put into action, so that using their best weapons, they bring order among these capos.

Roberto is a young man trying to find his way back home to his family. His desire to push forward despite facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles is at the heart of his odyssey. Along his journey, Roberto is constantly faced with the temptation to quit and give in to defeat. However, it is the voice of those who came before him that fuels his passion for legacy.

After a hotel maid confronts her boss about secret cameras in the rooms, she insists on watching the videos, which reveal more than she imagined.

An special and heroic Representation of Independence, the Past Narrated in “Gritos de Muerte y Libertad,” which examines the roles of independence heroes in the series’ narrative and in Mexican historiography. Extended and more detailed pilot that expands the show.

Oscar is a handsome boy who, in a night out with his friend, meets Bárbara, a Venezuelan girl with whom he falls in love. He does not imagine that Elvis, Barbara's ex-boyfriend, will come to collect a debt that he had pending with her.

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Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the police. Thanks to this performance are "hired" by Mr. Mauricio Tavares to play a practical joke on dangerous Don Antonio Robledo, a senior executive who suffer a fictional kidnapping for later culminate in a surprise party.

Three ranchers discover the burial of some drug traffickers in the region. Without giving it much thought, they decide to dig it up and keep it, causing them unimaginable trouble.

Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.

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

A teenager loses his hearing after a terrible accident. Shortly after, he falls in love with a foreign girl living in México. He discovers that being in love makes him hear again.

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To redeem himself from a great sin, a man dedicates himself to building a church.

Claudio, Juan and Vampire have been friends since their teenage years. One night, Claudio tells his friends he is being extorted by a police officer, so he needs a large sum of money. He asked them to perform a fake kidnapping, so they can obtain the money he needs from his own family. But soon after they got the money, Claudio has been kidnapped for real.

At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. After evading the past for 10 years, Rocío returns to her hometown from where she was once expelled. When confronting her family, she comes to understand that forgiveness is the key that will allow her to realize her full potential.

Marcelo feels he's found the incarnation of his favorite superhero in Julio, his troublesome and eccentric neighbor whose biggest dream is to become a porn star, but Mrs. Martha, who still treats her son Marcelo like a kid, will never permit such a relationship to flourish. Emotionally disturbed, she will try to protect the only thing she's got left in the world: her son.

No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of these two beings. Of whom the purist feelings alive have resurrected them.

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Los Internationals is a more serious Latino take on the Expendables and the A-Team, that will feature a team of all Spanish speaking characters who represent different parts of South America and the Caribbean. The film will be fun and have lots of heart but will also take a closer look at real violence in our society and the glorification of it in video games; comparing the two to show the vast contrast and its true impact on our children.

Two stories of people who's life has changed after joining the cult of "La Santa Muerte" for both better and worse.

Iván lives in a small apartment in a large building. Resigned to observing a world in which he has little part, he believes that the only thing worth waiting for is to wait. An unexpected encounter with Alma will once again give him the opportunity to reconsider everything that he had considered real until then.

Silvana becomes embroiled in a love triangle with two drug bosses.

The story of a woman who is kidnapped along with other women and sold for sexual exploitation. Government authorities are involved in this business, and they are capable of anything to continue generating profits.

Tren (20), his girlfriend Drama (18) and their friends Trucas (19), Mico (16) and Weed (17), are youths who live on the outskirts of Mexico City. Through graffiti art, dancing, music and song, they have a good time imitating their idols in music, dance and television, dreaming of someday being great figures in show business. They gather at the F.B.I., which holds dance and graffiti contests, and which is also frequented by el Loco (28) and his gang of small time drug dealers in the barrio. At the same time, Tren’s brother Nuk (43) returns home after 23 years. Nuk finds the environment changed, with all the evils of society, only now they are stronger than when he left.

A talented rural student struggles with his teacher and fellow students.

A plot that narrates murders within the world of university theater is only the backdrop to discover a story where pain and revenge are the true protagonists. Winner of the award for best Mexican horror film at Feratum 2021.

Ricardo and Andres are brothers who decide to break with routine and take a trip that will change the way they view and live their lives. A mixture of good and bad decisions bring them face to face with death; to survive, they will have to decide what is more important: love among brothers or the love of a woman; honor and justice, or the easy life.

Ismael, widower of his beloved wife Teresa, walks the streets of the city in search of cardboard, in his extensive travels he has confrontations with Juan - a mental patient who thinks he is a dog and with Luigi - the most famous baker in the city. , who always scolds her daughter, because she did not inherit his gift in baking. But the destiny of these people is about to change, thanks to a magical event that Ismael will unleash.

Be careful not to fall into their networks, you can be deceived by their beauty. They are on the side of the corrupt police and they will push you to the limit of sex. Be careful, they exist and they are perverted.

Javier chats online with a girl called sofi_dark, a mysterious girl who indulges in a subtle game of perversions. As the relationship grown, he wants to meet her in person. He begins to desperately look for her through the city, until a series of photographs that he discovers on the Internet disrupts his plans.

Something is happening that seems to be a karmic payback for city-bus drivers who have been responsible for running over pedestrians while on duty.

A stylized look at the life of a Mexican urban youngster, Tonatiuh (Busto), who, despite living in the largest city of the world, feels as lonely and desperate as ever.

On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.