Gerardo Taracena Movies

In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder....

Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.

Mexican feature film

Confusion and eccentricity are all part of life in the vast human ocean of Mexico City -- including the three very different personalities portrayed...

I am not what happened to me... I am what I choose to become.

After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to...

Quinceañeras, a magical age... except when your family wants to put you in a bulky dress and make you waltz in front of everyone, which is...

Two old friends meet after years of not seeing each other: Miguel, a prisoner who is about to be killed by a troop of the Mexican Revolution; and...

A novel by Monica Zak, based on a true story, inspired this 1994 Danish-Guatemalan coproduction, a political thriller about Guatemala.

Carmen Altamirano was buried alive at 2 years old by her parents. 30 years later, she will have to dig up her past.

During the Mexican-American War, a group of students from the Colegio Militar suffer the invasion, hunted by the enemy, and are persecuted in the...

A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.

Chuyín Venegas and Cornelio Barraza were the biggest stars of popular music and cinema of the 80's. "The Goldfinches of Rosarito" had no equal...

When an ATF agent out of Houston is tasked to team up with the Mexico City District Attorney on a human trafficking case, he uncovers family ties...

The adventures of Juan and the situations that he will find in the neighborhood where he lives to try to rescue him from the bad guys who want to...

Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.