Angelina Peláez’s Typical Vibe
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Angelina Peláez has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by El Infierno.
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After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Dir. Luis Estrada · With Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosío, Ernesto Gómez Cruz

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.
Dir. Patricia Riggen · With Adrian Alonso, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
Dir. Luis Estrada · With Damián Alcázar, Alfonso Herrera, Joaquín Cosío

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.
Dir. Luis Mandoki · With Greisy Mena, Joaquín Cosío, Fernando Moreno
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