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Gerardo Taracena has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Apocalypto.
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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
Dir. Mel Gibson · With Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Max Trujillo, Gerardo Taracena
The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.
Dir. Alejandro Monteverde · With Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp
After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.
Dir. Gustavo Loza · With Karla Souza, Ricardo Abarca, Biassini Segura
Sayra, a Native Honduran teenager, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Mexican and Mestizo-Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same USA-bound train.
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Paulina Gaitán, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer
A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.
Dir. Fernando Rovzar, Mark Alazraki · With Héctor Suárez, Osvaldo Benavides, Mauricio Isaac
While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.
Dir. Jonás Cuarón · With Evan Whitten, Demián Bichir, Christian Slater
Three women who are born on the same day and at the same time are marked by a prophecy: the day the three meet and fall in love with the same man, one of them will die. Despite coming from opposite worlds, their paths inevitably cross.
Dir. Carlos Duplat Sanjuan, Luz Mariela Santofimio · With Fátima Molina, Marcela Guirado, Alexa Martín
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
Dir. Antonio Zavala Kugler · With Edith González, Christian Bach, Paola Nuñez
A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.
Dir. Makinov · With Vinessa Shaw, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Daniel Giménez Cacho
