Movies: Alma Muriel

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Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city....

Young Gloria is abused by the Vitorina, hospice caretaker hosting it. She forces her to perform the heaviest tasks. Gloria is only happy in music class. When she grows decides to escape, and now she lives on the street with another girl, both singing...

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person....

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film....

Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!...

Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her, although she is no...

Mexican feature film...

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap on...

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship....

Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc......

Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her ...

Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo?...

A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers....

Domestic melodrama about infidelity set against an illegal immigration/"making a better life" background....

Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience members....

Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children....

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Young dancer joins the cast of a musical-comedy production, falls in love with young comic actor....

Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship....