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In the South Yucatan at the turn of the 20th century, a Revolutionary Republican general battles against the region's wealthy land owners.

A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.

A woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend (Rojo). This last woman begins to idealize her friend's son. One day, the mother gets sick and falls into a coma. Her son arrives but she is unconscious. He has a brief but passionate affair with her mother's friend and then disappears, as quickly as he came back from the sea.

In 1886 the residents of a town in Chihuahua reject the abuses of the authorities and the army.

Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police.

Tribute to old variety theaters and their burlesque shows. A group of performers and entertainers fight off the politicians who are attempting to close down their theatre through corrupt practices.

A Mexican bandit sees a blonde bathing in a river and takes her back to his cave. Later, she finds herself attracted to her oppressor.

A young filmmaker travels to Chiapas to film natives of Lacandona Jungle. In spite of being financed by the censorious Mexican Government, he expects that some of the truth about the living conditions of poor native people come to surface.

A business man drives across a shady Mexican town to deliver a large sum of money where he is forced to pick up a group of poor dubious hitchhikers who awaken a frenzy of paranoia within him.

Paloma, is the object of desire of every man who crosses her path and her charm is as great as the bad fortune she transmits to the one who conquers her.

Two young schoolboys in a Mexican town cut class to go to a matinee. The boys get involved with a gang of thieves and get caught up in the fun, but once the gang leaves, loyalties shift, leaving the two boys in conflicting positions.

A handsome pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders, to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).