Manuel López Ochoa

Escuela para solteras

All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.

The Door and The Butcher's Wife

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

Little Black Angels

A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black mother since birth—marries a pop singer. Everybody conspires to protect her from finding out about herself. It's not clear exactly why they do that.

Dos vidas

Seguiré tus pasos

José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.

El inolvidable Chucho el Roto

Adventure-story feats and family melodrama centered around an 1880s Robin Hood type figure. Fourth of four in a series.

El medio pelo

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.

Me he de comer esa tuna

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.

Yo soy Chucho el Roto

Bandit Chucho impersonates a variety of high-society figures to perform a series of playful swindles.

Los Malditos

White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.