Movies: Gabriel Retes

Damian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After Damian accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks atonement and travels alone to Mexico, both to find peace and to reconnect with his family roots. Assist...

Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film....

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A man gets involved in a murder and his life is radically transformed. He decides to return to his hometown to find his family and an old love. Unfortunately, the police and some drug dealers start harassing him until the man decides to disappear com...

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree....

As a teenage orphan from Chira Island searches for his godfather on the mainland, his innocent memory of childhood is gradually replaced by an unsettling reality upon learning the truth about his origins....

Marcela, a former film star, seeks tranquility in the suburbs after marrying a wealthy industrialist. Her past haunts her with admirers and daily violence. Overwhelmed by a distant husband, a demanding child, critical in-laws, and loneliness, she esc...

A mexican filmmaker brings his movie to a Latin American festival. The problem is that the movie is spoken in english and the copy comes without subtitles in spanish. The reaction of the participants, press and jury is not expected....

A surreal and horseless approach to classic western tropes....

After a life full of guilt for having been an executioner, Abel Carbajal receives a visit from Ángela, a young woman seeking revenge against him. Unknowingly, both will find their own redemption....

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising....

The lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60’s. Some years later, the friends meet again. Rolo has turned into a guerrilla fighter, Boby into a businessman and Chino into an embittered and solitary man...

A man impersonates another one and lives many situations that will commit him to act in a surprising way facing the Surf World Championship 2009....

A group of young filmmakers want to register a movie in a famous festival, but they are rejected so they decide to register at the Guadalajara Film Festival using the name of an old retired famous filmmaker. Everything gets complicated when the movie...

Because of a millionaire fraud, a man is condemned to house arrest, and the only place where he can serve sentence is his mother’s house, affected with Alzheimer disease. The arrival of the man disrupts the life of the people who live with the elder ...

These women think, due to her social position, that they live in a “bubble of soap”. Nevertheless, when this mirage explodes, they remain in the air, in a free fall. Based on a novel by Ricardo Garibay....

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"Luz Externa was one of the most ambitious productions of the Mexican super 8. The script is based on the monologue of Ernesto, a jipiteca machín, who tells a friend of his mystical adventures with his girlfriend [...] What was probably the super 8 f...