Patricia Reyes Spíndola

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Dir. Julie Taymor · With Salma Hayek Pinault, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro

What does a thrill-seeker tween girl do when her mom forbids her to enter a BMX race? Cast an actor with nothing to lose to play her approving dad.

Dir. Javier Colinas · With Natalia Coronado, Juan Pablo Medina, Silvia Navarro

A young nurse with a domestic abuse past starts working the night shift at a small hospital, where, during the night, the ghost of a nurse materializes.

Dir. Rigoberto Castañeda · With Paulina Gaitán, Tony Dalton, Patricia Reyes Spíndola

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?

Dir. Arturo Ripstein · With Juan Diego, Ariadna Gil, Luis Felipe Tovar

Elisa Cantú never imagined that, upon returning to Mexico from New York, where she resides, she would encounter an unexpected tragedy that changes her life. The night Elisa would celebrate her birthday, fate leads her to meet Leonardo Velasco, a policeman in love with Julia, a teacher, to whom he was to marry. At the end of the evening, Leonardo receives an emergency call, in which the discovery of two bodies is reported, one of them is that of his fiancée, who lies next to the body of Augusto Cantú, millionaire businessman and father of Elisa. Elisa and Leonardo will come together to search for the truth of what happened.

Dir. Giselle González · With Angelique Boyer, Andrés Palacios, Leticia Calderón

Native American girl Maria Isabel makes friends with Graciela, a rich white girl, despite Graciela's father's opposition; their friendship lasts into their adulthood.

Dir. Yolanda Vargas Dulché · With Adela Noriega, Fernando Carrillo, Lorena Herrera

Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliated, she feels desired and desirable.

Dir. Arturo Ripstein · With Sylvia Pasquel, Alejandro Suárez, Patricia Reyes Spíndola

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

Fernanda Quiñones, whose stage name is Salomé, is a dancer who works at the D'Rubí cabaret in Mexico City with her friend Karicia. One day, Salomé meets Julio, son of the millionaire Montesino family, who is married to Ángela, a sickly woman who cannot have children. Lucrecia, Julio's mother, who is obsessed with the idea of ​​having a grandson who will inherit the family fortune, proposes to Salomé that she be the mother of that grandson. But, when she finds out that Julio, even though he loves her, will not only not leave Angela, but that she will be the one to raise the child as if it were her own, she flees far away with her son and two other babies abandoned by a neighbor. Twenty years later, Salomé becomes a wealthy business woman who lives with her three children. When he returns to Mexico, Julio and his mother will try to find out who Salomé and Julio's son is.

Dir. Ramón Ortiz Quiñones · With Edith González, Guy Ecker, María Rubio

Inocente de Ti is a Miami-based 130 episode telenovela that first aired on the Univision network in 2005. It features Camila Sodi, Valentino Lanús, and Helena Rojo.

Dir. Inés Rodena · With Valentino Lanús, Helena Rojo, Camila Sodi