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  El lugar sin límites

  El lugar sin límites (1978), directed by Arturo Ripstein, is a film about a male transvestite who owns a brothel in a sleepy town in rural Mexico. The protagonist, La Manuela, refuses to sell it to the local cacique (strongman) much to the disappointment of his daughter who wants to move elsewhere to work. The film chronicles the return of Pancho, a hot-headed individual who desires La Manuela. As the plot unravels we are able to see a clash of personalities, power relations and gender dynamics. In the film La Manuela and Pancho represent to opposites that attract. Pancho is an indebted, hot-headed truck driver that is down and out. He is a virile and strong man overcome by desire and obsessed with control over women and men. In short he is the stereotypical macho. La Manuela is also a strong character, a desirable and confident feminine transvestite. Her transvestism threatens the machismo represented by Pancho. She is a destabilizing force for heterosexual and masculine anxieties. Source: Agredano, Hector. "El lugar sin límites." (Re)Queering Mexican History, 2013, https://opencuny.org/rqmh/historical-vignettes/el-lugar-sin-limites/.
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  Principio y Fin

  The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. (www.imdb.com)
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  Profundo carmesí

  A partir de un hecho real (el mismo que sirviera de base a, "Amantes sanguinarios", de Leonard Kastle), se narra la carrera criminal de la pareja formada por una enfermera y un estafador quienes sirven para reinterpretar temas como la obsesión amorosa y el poder destructivo de los celos. Aquí, el amor loco de los protagonistas, los vuelve primero amantes y después asesinos que borran del mapa todo aquello que impide su deseo. Víctimas de su pasión, deambulan por un mundo que no ofrece salidas posibles y los encamina a su destrucción. (Filmoteca UNAM)