The best Alma Muriel’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Alma Muriel’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Alma Muriel.
Mar brava
4.9/10
Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo?
Burlesque
6.4/10
Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience members.
Zapatos viejos
5.6/10
Young Gloria is abused by the Vitorina, hospice caretaker hosting it. She forces her to perform the heaviest tasks. Gloria is only happy in music class. When she grows decides to escape, and now she lives on the street with another girl, both singing in the trucks and try to survive.
Free Love
6.8/10
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
Confesiones de una adolescente
Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!
Barcelona sur
6/10
Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her, although she is not free, since depends on her pimp "Toni". But Gumer will persuade Charo to abandon Toni and form, along with other friends, a band to start businesses on their own.
Teatro Follies
Young dancer joins the cast of a musical-comedy production, falls in love with young comic actor.
El valle de los miserables
5.8/10
A Married Woman
7.1/10
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
The Corrupted
Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc...
National Mechanics
7.4/10
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
Violent Stories
7.1/10
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Luna de sangre
6.6/10
Mexican feature film
Lo mejor de Teresa
6.8/10
Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study for a scientific degree.
Papa en onda
6.2/10
Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.
Cuando tejen las arañas
7/10
Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.
El preso No. 9
6.4/10
Domestic melodrama about infidelity set against an illegal immigration/"making a better life" background.
El tonto que hacía milagros
5.3/10
A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers.
