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María Rojo has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 4 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
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Dir. Jorge Fons · With María Rojo, Héctor Bonilla, Jorge Fegán

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

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.
Dir. Maryse Sistach · With Ximena Ayala, Nancy Gutiérrez, Arcelia Ramírez

Argentine re-make of American television series Married... with Children. It follows the Argento family and their lives.
Dir. Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye · With Guillermo Francella, Florencia Peña, Érica Rivas
A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.
Dir. Mark Alazraki · With Mauricio Ochmann, Ana Brenda Contreras, Manu NNa
After their father's death, Sofía Ripoll, the oldest of three sisters, takes over the family's fictional successful chocolate factory. Though she is engaged to a man who uses her for money, she quickly falls in love with Salvador Cruz, a former racecar driver who takes a job as her chauffeur.
Dir. Kary Fajer · With Marjorie de Sousa, David Zepeda, Claudia Álvarez
Mariana lives with her father, Atílio, and is motherless. He is a very powerful man, and he keeps a big secret: Mariana is not his biological daughter, Atílio has two sisters: Isabel, the oldest, a good and caring woman, who raised Mariana and loves her as if she were her own daughter; Márcia, the youngest, arrogant and very vain, has a cold heart, has never fallen in love with anyone and always mistreated Mariana, until a boy called Inácio Lugo Navarro arrives in the city, very attractive, who uses a false name and is looking for his roots and revenge.
Dir. Delia Fiallo, Liliana Abud · With Alejandra Barros, Jorge Salinas, Angélica Rivera
Yulissa Torres-Quintero is a beautiful young woman from an upper social class who has been orphaned at a very young age; For this reason, she and her brother Alberto were raised by their cruel grandmother, Doña Paula Garza vda. de Torres-Quintero, who pretends to be sick to manipulate her grandchildren. After several years, Paula is ruined and penniless, so she decides to mortgage all her assets to the landowner Ignacio Aguirre, owner of the Arroyo Negro hacienda, as a last resort to survive and avoid poverty.
Dir. Delia Fiallo · With Claudia Ramírez, Luis José Santander, Sergio Goyri
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