Arcelia Ramírez
Also Known As: Arcelia Ramírez Coria, Arcelia Ramirez Coria, Arcelia Ramirez
Biography: Arcelia Ramírez (born 7 December 1967) is a Mexican actress who appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1985. At a young age she became interested in acting. She studied acting at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT), from where she was prepared for several plays produced by the same institution, including La pasión de Pentesilea, La séptima morada, La noche de Hernán Cortés, Las mujeres sabias, Freda y otras griegas and Relaciones peligrosas. She lived in France from 2007 to 2011, a period in which she kept up her work pace, coming to Mexico to film movies as diverse as Arturo Ripstein's "Las razones del corazón" and Victor Avelar's "Cómo no te voy a querer". Meanwhile, her life in Paris was like that of a nameless woman who was beginning to raise a family. Throughout her career, which began in 1985 with the film "El centro del laberinto", she has been nominated for important awards, such as the Ariel, at the Cannes Festival, at the Havana Festival, at the Latin American Film Festival in Lérida, among others. She has been nominated four times for the Ariel Award, twice for Best Actress (1997, 2000) and twice for Best Supporting Actress (2001 and 2003). The first actress attended the Cannes Film Festival 2021 for her performance in the film "La civil", first fiction of the Belgian-Romanian director Teodora Mihai. In the film she plays Cielo, a mother searching for her daughter kidnapped by organized crime in northern Mexico. After the screening on July 10 at the Debussy Hall, Ramirez received an eight-minute standing ovation from the audience. An unprecedented and almost unbelievable experience for Arcelia Ramírez, she explained, so much so that it marked her life and brought tears to her eyes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: December 07, 1967
Age: 57 years old
Gender: Female
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Written on the Body of Night
Overview: A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-26
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Malos Presagios
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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La Boca Del Diablo
Overview: Daniel is challenged by his classmates to go at dusk to a cave people say goes straight to hell. Armed with holy water, he arrives to the appointment; this is the story of how Daniel meets Devil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-08-22
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Tell Me About Yourself
Overview: Chava, a 17-year-old boy who has a secret admirer, feels more attracted to boys. When leaving his school in a rainy day, Carlos offers him a ride, and so their adventure begins.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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María: La Diva Eterna
Overview: Twenty years after her death, María Félix, a figure of Mexican cinema, is a model for free and independent women who are in control of their lives. Known as La Doña, she was a beautiful and strong woman. Admired and ahead of her time, she is our eternal diva.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-04-06
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El que habita las alturas
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-12-31
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The Last Gaze
Overview: A drama centered on the relationship between a painter who's losing his sight and a maid in a Mexican brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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El brassier de Emma
Overview: It was the year of 1962 when I turned 12 and my breasts began to grow. Cecilia, my sister, went to study in Paris, I was left alone with my parents and their problems. I discovered that the breasts made men and women crazy, while mine began to draw the attention of my friends without adults realizing that I needed a bra.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-29
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Amor de mis amores
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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Recipes to Stay Together
Overview: "Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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Pole Dance
Overview: Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner strength by practicing pole dance she meets Jaime, who gets obsessed with her, unleashing a story of abuse and gender violence.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-15
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The Reasons of the Heart
Overview: In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
Overview: Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she rejects him for the last time causing Gabino to plan a revenge against Maty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-07-27
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Such is Life
Overview: After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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Nadie te oye: perfume de violetas
Overview: Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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Volveré
Overview: In a country with hundreds of missing people, Alejandra, a frivolous, divorced mother of two children, faces the disappearance of her brother Salvador, a documentalist of the ecological depredation of a Canadian mining company. Life becomes more difficult with job and family losses. Alejandra will fight to protect her family and learn that love conquers all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-03-10
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Leftie
Overview: Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on him.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-02-20
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The Searches
Overview: Revenge, redemption and chance are the topics that underpin José Luis Valle’s new film. A man runs his errands: cleans the house, picks up the dry cleaning, pays his debts and buys groceries. Then, inexplicably commits suicide. His death smites his wife, Elvira, who is unaware of the reasons for suicide. At another point, Ulises is assaulted and stripped of the portfolio that held the only photo he kept of her deceased daughter. He sets out to find the thief and kill him. The lives of Elvira and Ulises intersect unexpectedly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-04-24
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La caja de Yamasaki
Overview: Diego lives trapped in a world of adults. His life revolves around his grandmother's house and walks in the company of his father and stepmother. When Diego meets the magician Yamasaki, he decides to make the most important decision of his life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
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Between Night and Day
Overview: Francisco, a man with autism resides secluded, ignored and locked away. He's a burden on his brothers, and decides to flee into the forest, where he befriends a rat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Instructions Not Included
Overview: Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-07-20
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All the Silence
Overview: Miriam teaches sign language in the mornings and is part of a professional theater production in the afternoons, maintaining a stable and passionate relationship with her girlfriend Lola. Although her life is very much connected to the routine of a deaf person, her world begins to crumble when she discovers that she is losing her hearing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Potosí
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-21
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Good Day, Ramon
Overview: After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-21
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Rain
Overview: "Lluvia" showcases six stories and different characters as they navigate the streets of Mexico City, pursued by intermittent rain. Each one faces a strange, luminous, or absurd event that reveals who they are, if only for a moment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-01-10
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A Shred Of Mist
Overview: After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to multiple abuses and psychological torture.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-10
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El centro del laberinto
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Crocodiles
Overview: A young photojournalist in the city of Veracruz, Mexico, will risk his life to dig up a shocking truth after picking up the investigation that his journalist friend and mentor left unfinished when getting killed by the organized crime.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-12-31
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Mambo Dreams
Overview: Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-10-24
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Open Cage
Overview: The economy has collapsed. In a universe of moral and economic impoverishment, we find Flavia, a spoiled teenager with artistic aspirations that are somewhat frustrated when she is not accepted at the University. Her neighbor Martin, a mature man with rigid routines, is her antipode. When Flavia meets Martin, there are sparks of friction at all times, and the situation is unlikely to get any better.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-02-25
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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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Los Fabulosos 7
Overview: In this story, a musical group whose music sets the mood for Events, finds itself at a very crucial moment in its carreer. All of the members face the dilemma of fighting for their dreams or quitting forever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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City of the Blind
Overview: Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-10-31
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Las Horas Contigo
Overview: Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same week her beloved grandmother becomes gravely ill. Spending her last days at her grandmother's side, Ema is forced to spend time with her estranged, larger than life mother, getting to know her and seeing her with new eyes. As she spends time with the people gathered around her grandmother in her last days; Ema re-evaluates her beliefs, her fears and her set ideas about family, love and parenthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-02-05
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A Circus Tale & A Love Song
Overview: Refugio, a romantic dreamer whose years long quest to find true love takes him from the circus life in Mexico to the nightlife of New Orleans, where he unexpectedly falls for a beautiful exotic dancer with a complicated past and a dangerous ex-lover who refuses to let her go.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-23
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Benjamín's Wife
Overview: Benjamin is an old bachelor who lives with his sister. One day he falls in love with the young Natividad. Seeing that the love letter strategy doesn't work with the girl, Benjamín decides to kidnap her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Rock Marí
Overview: An 11 year old girl who has just lost her mother is at the same time fighting to fulfill her greatest dream: to become a great singer and for her music to be heard by millions of people. Throughout this great adventure, Rock Mari is accompanied by her faithful squire Baqueta, as they travel together in search of her destiny.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Rizo
Overview: The life of great playwright Alejandro del Rey, his searches, his principles, his women and a hostile environment are the backdrop for a wonderful tale of carnal passions, aesthetic obsessions and love for living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-04-23
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Ojos que no ven
Overview: Elena is in charge of the library in a private school. His monotonous life is affected when a new child arrives at school with whom he is obsessed and whom he treats like his son. One day he decides to take him away, generating a crisis in his real mother, Andrea, who will do everything possible to get him back.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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In the Shadow of the Moon
Overview: Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-08-28
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Sofía
Overview: A volcano scientist (Issabela Camil) arrives in Mexico to study the Popocatepetl volcano. The journey will change her whole life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-22
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Teo's Journey
Overview: Separated from his father after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, young Teo and his new friend, Chuy, set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find his dad in this touching tale of courage, adventure and friendship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-10
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How Could I Not Love You?
Overview: Hugo and Julia are two high school students that have different dreams and goals. Their lives take different paths learning that in this life, everything has a price, and everyone has to pay his own.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-03-11
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Bleak Street
Overview: Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-17
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¿De qué lado estás?
Overview: An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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Romelia's Secret
Overview: The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-12-04
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A Breakfast Chronicle
Overview: A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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Leaf Blower
Overview: Three friends have a special mission: find some keys lost in a pile of dead leaves. It may seem a simple task, but it will turn into an odyssey when it confronts them to their fear to grow up. This afternoon, as trivial as it may sound, could change the course of their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-29
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Ultima llamada
Overview: Gilberto Cortés is an actor in a theatre play about a father fighting to save his son from the death penalty. Years later, he faces the same dilemma in real life when his own son is accused of the murder of a child molester.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-25
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Meat Stew, Original Recipe
Overview: A dysfunctional family reunites after the grandmother's death, who was a famous cooker of the traditional mexican dish: mole de olla.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-08-02
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Veronica
Overview: A female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-08-14
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El Cometa
Overview: After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
Genres: Music Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-15
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Like Water for Chocolate
Overview: Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-04-16
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El tesoro de Clotilde
Overview: Clotilde dies, and her god-daughter has promised to carry out a final wish for her. Two gangs of thieves and the cops interfere with her fulfilling the promise.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-11-03
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Playing Under The Moon
Overview: This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim. The other Carmen Luisa is beaten by violence within her own family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Serpientes y escaleras
Overview: Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close friends. When they grow up, the winner is still the lucky one in the game of life, but life can be treacherous...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-12-04
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No One Will Ever Know
Overview: An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fiction world; to materialize their dreams. Neither inclement reality can stop them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-03-11
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Julia And The Portal To The Abyss
Overview: Julia is a woman searching for the meaning of life. When Julia is kidnapped by a homeless man, she is transported to a magic world where she will have to fight fantastic creatures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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Yo Fausto
Overview: Fausto faces the frustration of his ruined plans to study photography in Barcelona and the pregnancy of Carmen, he returns to Mexico and is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-03-05
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Reclusorio III
Overview: 3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Some Ruins
Overview: While taking a road trip in their last attempt to fix their marriage, Carlos and Ofelia encounter a young mirror image of what they used to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-10-19
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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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About Family
Overview: A family gathers and sells waste. One day, the mother finds a cylinder in an abandoned hospital and takes it home. The family situation becomes worse when, without them realizing it, the cylinder begins to change them from within.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-02-20
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Con el amor no se juega
Overview: Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome soldier, Nicolas (from 1863), instead of her own reflection. It soon becomes obvious that he can see Susana as clearly as she can see him - and life, for them both, is never quite the same again. Contains three shorts as a trilogy: The Two Way Mirror (El espejo de dos lunas) 1990, 0:29:23 With You from a Distance (Contigo en la distancia) 1991, 0:27:38 Saturday Night Thief (Ladrón de sábado) 1996, 0:24:57
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Reina
Overview: Lola is looking forward to her birthday tomorrow. The 15th is widely celebrated in Mexico as a rite of passage. At the so-called Quinceañera Lola is allowed to dress up, the pink princess dress and the golden shoes are already ready. But first she has to help her uncle out one evening as a waitress.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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La Civil
Overview: Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-07-08
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Journey
Overview: Roberto is a young man who is trying to find his way back home to his family. His desire to push forward despite facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles is the heart of his odyssey. Roberto on his path is constantly faced with the opportunity to quit and give in to defeat. However, it's the voice of those who came before him, which fuels his passion for Legacy
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-30
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Fisuras
Overview: Winter. Two mothers wait for their children, involved in a social conflict, to return home. Crying is useless.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-05
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Un susurro comienza un incendio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
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