The best Valentín Trujillo’s drama movies

A professional assassin (and widowed deadbeat dad set to soon remarry) decides to call it quits and go straight after one more job. Complications ensue, particularly with a persistent police detective.

When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.

Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.

Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing.

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...

In Mexico City, a woman is raped every 9 minutes. This film details some of the legal and social problems in the country and how it's often difficult for women to find justice. Awarded Best Film by Mexican Cinema Journalists and nominated for three Ariel Awards.

Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.

In Venezuela, one day in 1948 there were born three children all named Victorino: Pérez, mulatto and son of the poor Lucía; Perdomo, son of a middle-class communist who gets arrested; and bourgeois Peralta. On the day of his eighteenth birthday Pérez escapes from prison using lather pretending it to be a rage attack. Peralta shows a friend of his a car he got from his parents. A young lady gives herself to Perdomo as a birthday present. Pérez finds his mistress with another man and wounds her. Pérez and a few others rob an old man while riding on their motorcycles. Perdomo and a bunch of bushwhackers plan to rob a bank. Pérez sees a friend of his smoking pot while Peralta visits a cousin of his and has sex with her. Perdomo’s father, recently elected a communist representative wants to talk him out of his violent ways. Pérez sleeps with three girls and remembers how he once killed a man in the middle of a robbery. Peralta and his friends shoot dogs just for fun. Perdomo and his pals…

Two criminals, Emilio and Camelia try to smuggle drugs into the USA.

A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who live in a big city. They live in ghettos, in a world ful of violence, corruption and hate. They form gangs who attack and rob innocent victims, leaving a trail of terror behind.

A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.

Nina is a reporter who works in a Latin American country at war when she finds herself trapped in the line of fire and hires a mercenary pilot named Victor to help her escape the place, but the plane is attacked and the journalist and pilot have to parachute off the plane. They fall into the sea but with a life raft they make it to the jungle, where they have to coexist and she learns to survive.

Romanticized, glamored-up neorealism, life in a squatter's-rights shantytown.

Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.