Maya Zapata
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Biography: Maya Zapata is an actress, known for Bordertown (2006), De la calle (2001) and Under the same moon (2007).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ciudad de México, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: November 30, 1981
Age: 43 years old
Gender: Female
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Bordertown
Overview: American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-22
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Casi divas
Overview: Four ambitious and beautiful young women. From four very different corners of Mexico. Just like hundreds of others, they are caught up in the frenzy that sweeps the nation when Alejandro Mateos, one of the country's most powerful producers, dreams up a nationwide talent search to cast the lead in his next big movie. But all this is news to Alejandro's on-again, off-again lover, Eva Gallardo, a diva of epic proportions, who expected to get the part. While Eva schemes to nail down the role, our four leads begin their own journey on the road to fame.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-08-21
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Mujeres de la Revolución Mexicana
Overview: Many women participated in the Mexican Revolution and were erased from history. Their names do not appear as the heroines they were, alongside the most important leaders of the heroic deed. As ideologues, they played an important role from their trench of activists, teachers, journalists and messengers. The documentary brings names like Carmen Serdán, Hermila Galindo, Dolores Jiménez Muro, Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Elena Arizmendi, Sara Pérez de Madero, to the front and recognizes their value in the formation of a nation.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-14
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Three of Cups
Overview: While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-04
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Lexi
Overview: “Laughing Lexi” has gone missing. As the tale unfolds, the story of what really happened becomes stranger than fiction.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-24
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Streeters
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-10-21
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Bolero de noche
Overview: Trovador seeks to write an immortal bolero, but the inspiration does not reach him. That's why the Devil appears to him and decides to make a pact: his desired bolero in exchange for his soul. Trovador accepts, and in his way will cross the Gitana, a woman with whom he will begin a passionate romance that perhaps serves him to write his song.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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La sorpresa
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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All Inclusive
Overview: A family visits an idyllic five-star resort in the Mayan Riviera in order to spend some quality time together for the first time in many years. A series of events will affect each member of the family that will change them forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-03-11
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Santitos
Overview: After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Morenita, El Escandalo
Overview: Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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Soy tu fan: La película
Overview: In 2012, Charly leaves Nicolás minutes before getting married and moves to another country. Heartbroken, he writes to her a letter where predicts an unhappy life of complete solitude. Ten years later, fate brings them together again at the wedding of Rocío, her best friend, and Diego, her brother, where they will face that their love story is not over yet.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Enfermo Amor
Overview: The story of love struggles of 9 different couples, connected only by the complexity of human relationships.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-07-27
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El Mago
Overview: A young man returns to differente people and places in his life, to repay favors once done and change the lives of those surrounding him, forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-02-18
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Never on a Sunday
Overview: A middle-class Mexican family is forced to hire the services of a funeral home with a dubious reputation, without imagining the danger that the owner of the business will put them through.
Genres: Drama Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-09-21
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Nikté
Overview: Nikté is an orphan girl with a very difficult character who wants to be important and, to achieve this, she deceives her people by pretending to be the princess announced in a prophecy. What she does not know is that this will require much more than she can offer and that to fulfill it she will live many adventures, where she will learn that to be the greatest, first you have to be the smallest.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-12-18
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Under the Same Moon
Overview: Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-07-27
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Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Overview: In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-11
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Sexo, amor y otras perversiones
Overview: Compilation of short film about sex, love and other perversions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-28
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At Midnight
Overview: Alejandro's life is disrupted when actress Sophie Wilder stays at his hotel. To their surprise, the two fall for one another, meeting at midnight.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-10
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Meister des Todes
Overview: Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable weapon exports to Mexiko.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-06-30
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Caribe
Overview: Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail knew nothing, comes to introduce herself. Banana prices start falling, threatening the plantation's finances. An oil company works with the government to get off-shore drilling rights, over local objection. Vicente is at the center of each cross-current. Will he fall for Irene? Can he save the plantation? Will he sell out to corporate offers?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Memoria y Tolerancia
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Original Language: es
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Two Embraces
Overview: Mexican director Enrique Begne's drama Two Embraces (AKA Dos Abrazos, 2007) follows four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. Per the film's title, these characters pair off, finding unexpected hope and salvation in one another.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-05-26
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Such Is Life in the Tropics
Overview: Two families dispute a land with a land dealer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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The Blood Oranges
Overview: Cyril and Fiona, a free-wheeling married couple, travel to a tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. Cyril is a manipulator. There, they meet another couple, Catherine and Hugh, and their three children. Hugh is a one-armed photographer who specializes in nude photographs of peasant women. Soon, they decide to live together and an erotic atmosphere develops between them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-07
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Demon Inside
Overview: Marta used to be a recognized and successful psychic, but after a dramatic experience, she loses faith in her gift and develops agoraphobia. She couldn't see the devilish side of her rapper, Mario, and now, Marta is afraid that Mario will stalk her again. As soon as she released from the asylum, she moves to Monica's uncle apartment. There, she feels safe. But soon, she has trouble with her crazy neighbors. And if this wasn't enough, a spectrum starts to haunt her, making her life impossible. Marta will have to fight against all these difficulties and manage to get her gift back before Mario finds her.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-11-02
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XX-XY fuera del mundo
Overview: A couple moves into an old hotel. After making love, they will fulfill a suicide pact.
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Original Language: es
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Cobrador: In God We Trust
Overview: Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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The Ship
Overview: A radio host has to deal with his son's cancer with the help of a trainer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-05-12
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The Misfits
Overview: A lonely boy did not want to live until he meets a girl who pretends to be a star performer. An arrogant lawyer gets a lesson of life to get stuck in an elevator with a single servant. Through the Internet, a computer lover enters into a blind date, the stranger might be too known. Five elders decide to kill boredom and to get excited about planning to rob a bank.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-03-28
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Deadly Embroidered Memories
Overview: A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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Goitia: A God for Himself
Overview: The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his people, his permanent search for identity as a man and as an artist and his struggle against the demons of the body and his subsequent religious conversion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Herod's Law
Overview: In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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Old Gringo
Overview: A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-13
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Dance with the Devil
Overview: She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-10-31
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The Other Conquest
Overview: The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores the social, religious, and psychological changes brought about by a historical process of colonization that both defined the American continent and is also highly reminiscent of today’s neocolonialism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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Santos Peregrinos
Overview: When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building discover that three religious figurines passed down through the decades from Emiliano Zapata are full of solid gold. Tempers fly, libidos flare and no one emerges unscathed, including viewers overcome by a heavenly dose of hilarity in Santos Peregrinos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-11-26
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Overview: When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-17
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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Overview: Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-25
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The Red Thread
Overview: Abril, a rebellious and daring stewardess, and Manuel, a shy and traditional businessman, meet on a plane and instantly feel an undeniable attraction.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-02-13
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Huehxolotl
Overview: When Xochit is pursued by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) agents, a tense standoff ensues outside her restaurant, with her 8-year-old son Diego witnessing the traumatic event. Amidst the chaos, attorney Helen steps in to protect Xochitl, but Agent Walker unlawfully arrests her, sparking a legal battle. As Xochitl’s family grapples with the aftermath, her sister Nayeli, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, becomes Diego’s primary guardian, leading them on a challenging yet heartwarming journey of survival and solidarity.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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