Arturo Bolaño is a mediocre insurance salesman who loves women, booze and any short cut he can find to Easy Street. He thinks he's found it with the beautiful Rebeca Solis, the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stays on business. Rebeca wants nothing more than to escape from her husband and after Arturo falls in love, she asks him to help her get rid of him. The plan goes without a hitch but just as they think they are going to get away with murder, they receive an anonymous letter from a witness to the crime.

From PBS - Reportero follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly, as they stubbornly ply their trade in one of the deadliest places in the world for members of the media. In Mexico, more than 50 journalists have been slain or have vanished since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderón came to power and launched a government offensive against the country's powerful drug cartels and organized crime. As the drug war intensifies and the risks to journalists become greater, will the free press be silenced? An Official Selection of the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. A co-production of Quiet Pictures, ITVS, and Latino Public Broadcasting with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting.

From the producers of Amores Perros comes the humor-laced action thriller Nicotina. Lolo (Diego Luna) is a computer hacker who teams up with two amateur criminals in a deal with a Russian mobster. Diamonds will be exchanged for computer access to certain Swiss bank accounts. Although dangerous, the job is fairly simple for tech-savvy Lolo. What nobody plans on is Lolo's distractive obsession with a woman...at a most inconvenient time.

An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico's increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nightclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order to keep her dreams — and her family — alive.

Alejandro is an elderly writer who drives back to the small costal village where he was raised. But the peaceful place of his memories has been turned into a vast tourist resort. Once there, he reminisces about a mysterious woman whom he has been trying to forget ever since. A woman of wild beauty, she was married to a sailor but the neighbors disowned her because of her supposedly adulterous behavior. But Alejandro was totally and madly in love with her and now he thinks he sees her and she appears to not have aged. Perturbed, nervous, fearful and yet excited, Alejandro follows her but he will soon discover that she has been waiting for him.

For nearly a year, Consuelo has been obsessed with a man who visits her in her dreams, a blue prince who does not exist, according to her friends. Richard has been suffering from nightmares in which a young attractive woman seduces him and then tries to kill him. He swears he doesn't know her. Slowly the dream-like world invades reality and both end up face to face, separated only by a mirror glass in a police station: Richard identifies her as the assassin of his fiancée; she points him out as the man who raped her.

Guerrero, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, crosses the border into the United States in search of his family. After arriving in San Diego, he meets organized crime boss Gino Santoro, who offers him lodging, a job, and help in finding his family. There is only one condition... He must fight for his life in a "no holds barred" Cage Fight tournament and only the strong will survive!

On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico. This film chronicles the story of Mexico's Battle of Puebla, the most important battle in Mexico's history. When the unbeatable French army invades Mexico to set up a monarchy, General Ignacio Zaragoza must defend the city of Puebla, commanding a poorly armed and outnumbered troop of men.

Based on a true story, when Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, facing international pressure, calls for a referendum on his presidency in 1988, opposition leaders persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. With scant resources and constant scrutiny by the despot's watchmen, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and free their country from oppression.

The rule among criminals is don't steal from your own kind. But extreme situations call for extreme measures. And so it goes that a bunch of thieves decide to rob one of the best in the business. The challenge is immense and the rewards great... if they can pull it off.

Víctor a 17 year old wheelbarrow leader, dreams of becoming famous, often absorbed by the TV in the appliance store in the Municipal Market. He receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content, in exchange for a torn half of a $ 100 bill. He will get the other half when he finishes the job. Víctor, who has never seen this much money, has no idea how much it really is. But he also knows well that his need is greater than his curiosity.

With a borrowed cell phone, the contractor uses to tell him the way, Víctor embarks on the journey. Crossing the eight blocks of the market seemed easy but things get complicated along the way. There is something in those boxes that starts a high-speed wheelbarrow chase in the secret and gloomy corridors of the market. Without even realizing, Víctor and his pursuers will get involved in a crime of which they know anything.

Ten years after looking into the eyes of his father's killer, one young man is on the hunt for the gang of outlaws that left him fatherless. With just a sketch of the killers' faces, he travels from town to town, taking odd jobs in exchange for shelter along the way. When the marauding gangs' leader arrives one day at the property where the young man is staying, his undeniable urge to satisfy his vengeance is ignited. He'll hunt down each man, one by one, and deliver his justice no matter the consequences!

From Tribeca Film. While attempting to cover his tracks from a violent shooting, a crooked cop uncovers a deadly plot that he is uniquely qualified to prevent in this taut, award-winning thriller. In Spanish w/ English subtitles.

Amado runs a cyber café in a dangerous neighborhood. An old acquaintance brings back his criminal past and seeks redemption.