José Luis Bueno

El principio

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

Little Town

Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.

The Crying Woman

A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.

Tom Thumb

A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.

Madre a la fuerza

A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

Ave sin rumbo

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?

Cielito lindo

A 1936 film.

The Dead Speak

Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unpleasant way of helping them do this.