Movies: Michel Franco

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. ...

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....

In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her....

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

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...

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....

A young boy on a mission to collect what he believes to be his father’s remains gets sucked into the underbelly of the migrant industry in Mexico....

Andrea is devastated after learning her sister has leukemia, but a closer look will reveal that there is something hidden in her psyche....

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...

The professional life of Roxanne Lowit, one of the greatest fashion photographers and a pioneer of backstage photography, covering her career from 1977 and the Studio 54 until now....

Mavela and her father embark on a sensory philosophical journey, rekindling beautiful memories of a full life as they explore their deep relationship and their perception of death....