Ángeles Cruz
Biography: Ángeles Cruz is a Mexican actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. Originally from La Mixteca area in Oaxaca, she has a degree in acting from the School of Theater Art of the National Institute of Fine Arts. She has participated as an actress in more than a dozen national and international feature films with directors such as Ignacio Ortiz, Jorge Pérez Solano and Francisco Vargas among others. Her work in "Tamara y la Catarina" of Lucía Carreras, earned her the "Colón de Plata" as Best Actress awarded by the "Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva" 2017 and was "Nominated for Ariel" for best female performance in 2018. It was "Nominated for the Golden Beetle" as Best Actress by the Swedish Film Academy for her work in the film "La hija del puma"(Ulf Hulberg, 1994) and in 2000 for Ariel as best female co-acting for the film "Rito Terminal" (Óscar Urrutia, 2000). Her work as a screenwriter and director has produced three award-winning short films: "La tiricia or como curar la tristeza", "La carta" and "Arcángel". Her first feature film "Nudo mixteco" will be released soon.
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Subterránea
2022-11-11
Subterránea
Overview: A lonely trans woman gains popularity in her town due to her clairvoyant powers. These gifts become relevant when their coastal city is besieged by disappearances and mass graves. She must decide in favor of whom to use these powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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El último evangelio
2008-01-01
El último evangelio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
2012-08-26
The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
Overview: The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-08-26
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Familia
2023-12-07
Familia
Overview: As a family discusses the future of their idyllic olive farm over a meal, the complexity of their relationships emerges through laughs and confessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Broken Borders
2023-12-23
Broken Borders
Overview: Renato, Abel & Gabriela are a family torn apart by their emotions. For them, the longing for happiness and breaking free from their harsh realities seems punishable. Their individual choices will take its toll on the lives of others, bringing forth the fragile ties that bind them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-23
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Medusa
2022-09-01
Medusa
Overview: When teacher Nora comes home after being held the day before, the Medusa protocol app shows her in three videos what happened in her absence between her beloved husband and who impersonated her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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Ramona
2014-10-22
Ramona
Overview: Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-22
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Spiral
2009-09-11
Spiral
Overview: Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Traición
2018-03-10
Traición
Overview: Felix (56) a criminal boss in the south of Mexico, has always wanted to go to San Francisco so see how drawbridges rise for ships to go through. Misela (23), whose romantic partners die if they make her cry, seeks comfort in her mother and wants to know where she is buried. They are father and daughter, and one must betray the other in order to go on living.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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Get the Gringo
2012-03-15
Get the Gringo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-15
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Para armar un helicóptero
2013-10-09
Para armar un helicóptero
Overview: Oliverio lives in a building taken over by immigrants from the Mexican countryside who work constantly to provide the basic services lacking in the dwelling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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The Woman of Stars and Mountains
2024-04-26
The Woman of Stars and Mountains
Overview: Rita Patiño, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was found by a human rights organization inside a Kansas psychiatric hospital, where she had been involuntarily confined, for 12 years, despite the fact that the hospital authorities were never able to determine who was this woman, where did she come from, or what language she spoke. After the consequences of confinement and medical negligence, Rita returned to Mexico, where she lives with Juanita, her niece, and primary caregiver, in a context of precarious economic possibilities. A moving portrait of the lives of these two Tarahumara women, questioning the multiple forms of racism and discrimination that indigenous women in Mexico and the United States face.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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Tamara and the Ladybug
2016-11-18
Tamara and the Ladybug
Overview: Tamara, a woman with a mental disability, tries to return a borrowed baby to his parents, but she can't remember where she found him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
2013-05-19
Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-19
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Don't Pass Through San Bernardino
2017-03-13
Don't Pass Through San Bernardino
Overview: Amidst her pain and mourning, a peasant woman tries to find answers to her sons's death.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-03-13
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Anger, Also Known As Sheol
2019-03-12
Anger, Also Known As Sheol
Overview: A woman who escapes an overwhelming reality into a world of nightmares, by eating the forbidden fruit of Paradise's Tree of Eternal Life; a very frustrated man, both in his professional and love life, whose serial killer dreams may become a reality; and an autobiographical documentary on the director's healing process of a terminal cancer. A film divided in three chapters: heaven, hell and the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-03-12
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I Carry You with Me
2021-06-25
I Carry You with Me
Overview: An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-06-25
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The Violin
2005-03-11
The Violin
Overview: In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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El Eco del Caracol
2020-10-31
El Eco del Caracol
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-10-31
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Finlandia
2021-12-31
Finlandia
Overview: A devastating earthquake hits Oaxaca and causes hundreds to fall victims to its effects. The drastic physical effects are felt in Mexico while across the globe its emotional effects are felt in Finland. This seismic movement has caused an emotional tremor in the lives of the Muxes.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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The Garden of Eden
1994-03-01
The Garden of Eden
Overview: Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-03-01
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Dirt
2021-08-16
Dirt
Overview: Consuelo is the mother of a disappeared young woman, when she witnesses the clandestine burial of a girl by members of the state police, she decides to unearth the body to give it a better burial in the town's cemetery with the help of her brother Armando.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-08-16
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Eternal Ashes
2011-12-09
Eternal Ashes
Overview: ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-12-09
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The Girl
2012-01-15
The Girl
Overview: A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-15
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Number Eighty
2016-03-04
Number Eighty
Overview: Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and depressed in the country where he is supposed to belong. While rebuilding an old motorcycle with Don Memo, a retired motorcycle racer, with whom he is forced to work, he will discover where his real home is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-04
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Two Fridas
2018-11-24
Two Fridas
Overview: This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-11-24
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The Daughter of the Puma
1994-09-30
The Daughter of the Puma
Overview: A novel by Monica Zak, based on a true story, inspired this 1994 Danish-Guatemalan coproduction, a political thriller about Guatemala.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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