Movies: Michel Franco

1979, New Mexico, USA. Olmo is stuck. Today is his turn to take care of his sick father even though he is only 14-years-old and would much rather be hanging out with his best friend, Miguel. But when Olmo gets invited to a party by his beautiful neig...

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever....

Amid the Covid pandemic, filmmaker Michel Franco obtains a special permit to travel to Italy with his cast and premiere his film New Order at the Venice Film Festival. This documentary captures the challenges and triumphs of that extraordinary journe...

Follows an 8-year-old boy and a middle-aged woman as they crisscross contemporary Mexico City....

Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind....

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that endangers his life....

Monica is a social worker in Mexico City, whose son has a degenerative illness in both eyes. Having exhausted all other options, a corneal transplant is the only hope. Overwhelmed by the slowness of the health care system and the scarcity of resource...

In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in New York City where he meets Jack, a college age pet store employee with similar parental baggage. ...

Francisco was building a luxurious house in Mexico where a fatal accident caused the death of his brother. When Francisco learns that his widowed sister-in-law will not receive a compensation from the opulent owner of the house, he will seek justice...

Benigno Cruz is haunted by his violent past as the outlaw formerly known as “Catire”. Seeking for redemption while carrying on his shoulders his late wife’s murder by his enemies, Benigno is forced to face his estranged adult children and admit in sp...

Plot under wraps. Secretly shot and currently in post-production according to Franco....